Artikler om stifinneren Cleng Peerson og om den tidlige utvandringen fra Norge
The first organized emigration from Norway to the USA was triggered by the persecution of a small Quaker sect in Stavanger around 1820. The Quakers in Stavanger, western Norway, felt harassed by the state church, by the authorities, and people in the local community. The Quakers and religious freedom During the Napoleonic Wars, from 1807 […]
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The first Norwegians in western New York worked hard for several seasons to grow enough food for their families to last through the long and cold winters. Their new home in America was no Canaan’s Land. Could there be a new beginning farther west? When the ice broke up on Lake Erie and Lake Michigan
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On October 21, 1825, most of the Norwegian emigrants from the sloop Restauration boarded a steamship from New York to Albany. From Albany they traveled west through the region of the brand-new canal, which was creating a direct route to Lake Erie from New York City. Only five days later, the whole length of the
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Just before Christmas in 1886 the Cleng Peerson monument was unveiled in the cemetery of “Our Savior’s Lutheran Church” at Norse in Bosque County, Texas. The monument was dedicated to “Cleng Peerson, the Father of Norwegian Emigration to America”. It had the following inscription in Norwegian and English: “Cleng Pierson, the Pioneer of Norse Emigration
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Quakers in the town of Stavanger gave Cleng Peerson an assignment to travel to New York in 1821. They wanted him to explore the conditions for Norwegian immigrants. The assignment was fulfilled in 1825 with the first organized group of emigrants from Norway to the Americas. Cleng Peerson was born in Tysvær, Rogaland county, western
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De første årene i Fox River-dalen viste de norske immigrantene liten interesse for å knytte til seg en ordinert prest. De nærte en dyp skepsis til den norske statskirken. Deres åndelige behov ble dekket av legpredikanter, særlig de som hadde en bakgrunn fra Hauge-bevegelsen i Norge, predikanter som Ole Olson Hetletvedt, Bjørn Hatlestad, Jørgen Pedersen,
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I løpet av få år ble Fox River-kolonien i La Salle County, Illinois, selve morkolonien for tusenvis av norske immigranter. Morkoloni betyr i denne sammenhengen at det var dette stedet de fleste norske immigrantene hadde som sitt første mål i USA. Mange ble boende der en tid, før de reiste til en annen og nyere
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Våren 1833, så fort isen brøt opp på Lake Erie og Lake Michigan, dro Cleng Peerson vestover for å undersøke om det var bedre jord i de nye statene Michigan, Wisconsin og Illinois. Etter at han kom til den lille landsbyen Chicago, vandret han nordover langs Lake Michigan på velbrukte indianerstier mellom Chicago og Green
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Det var religionsforfølgelse av en liten kvekersekt i Stavanger rundt 1820 som utløste den første organiserte utvandringen til USA. Kvekere i Stavanger følte seg forfulgt av statskirken, av myndighetene og av folk i lokalsamfunnet. Religionsfrihet og forfølgelse Under Napoleonskrigene, fra 1807 til 1814, var kongeriket Danmark-Norge i krig med Storbritannia. Norske fanger ble satt i
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