The Sloopers, Their Ancestry and Posterity, 

The Story of the People on the Norwegian Mayflower - The Sloop, "Restoration"

CONTENTS

Acknowledgement xiii

PART  I:    THE  YEARS  TOGETHER     (1825-1850)

I. BEGINNINGS - Napoleon and the Quaker book 3
II. DEPARTURE - The project caused amazement in Stavanger 12
III. THE VOYAGE - There were no portholes or electric fans 25
IV. SEIZURE - "Now therefore I, John Quincy Adams, President" 30
V. THE FIRST YEARS TOGETHER - "We are destitute of provisions" 39
VI. THE MOVE TO THE WEST - "...and in his dream he saw...fields of waving grain" 62
VII. PIONEERING THE NEW LAND - "The wolves damage the sweet pumpkins" 75
VIII. NEWCOMERS, HEALTH, AND RELIGION - "I will not have anything to do with the Consel, for he is a Swede" 86
IX.  THE MORMONS COME TO FOX RIVER - "The confusion here is terrible" 100
X. CLIMAX OF AN ERA - Exciting rumors reached Fox River" 120

PART II:  ANCESTRY  AND  POSTERITY   (After 1850)

Norwegian Ancestors 139
XI. BJORLAND (THOSTENSON) - The U.S. Marshall gets his man 142
XII. BRASTAD (THOMPSON) - "I would rather have an original kiss" 157
XIII. DAHL (ANDERSON) - "Luck was on my side for the gun did not go off" 175
XIV. EIDE (O. JOHNSON) - Which telleth of ye shipwreck and the romance that followed 210
XV. HERSDAL (NELSON) - "Had it not been for this pole, all thirteen of us would have frozen to death" 225
XVI. HERVIK (HARWICK) - One family stayed in the "Black North" and made good 347
XVII. HESJA (G. JOHNSON) - "A pall of darkness hung over the territory by reason of Apache atrocities" 351
XVIII. HETLETVEIT ( OLSON) - "The gunman then fanned both guns both ways and backed out" 368
XIX. JEILANE (LARSON) - "And he set a strik-out record of twenty-three men in nine innings" 389
XX. MADLAND and HAUKAAS (HOUGAS) [& SLOGVIK] - "The oxen got sour feet and refused to travel. Indians attacked"  408
XXI. REVHEIM (IVERSON) - "The hanging was apparently a mistake ..." 474
XXII. ROSSEDAL (ROSDAIL) - "How dear to my heart ..." 486
XXIII. STEINE (STEEN) - "Schive was noted for his power over the evil one..." 544
XXIV.  ASSOCIATE SLOOPERS ( C. PEERSON, K. EIDE, MELAND, STRANGELAND, K. SLOGVIK, J. EIDE - Now Inger Asfjørnsdatter had two suitors ... 558

APPENDIX:

       The Original Sloopers

       Iver Halversen Revem's Letter to the King

       Slooper Relics

       The Slooper Society

       Slooper Photos -- 4th to 8th Generation

 

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INDEXES:

       Family Index

       General Index

 

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