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CHAPTER II.
BERING’S NATIVITY.—NORWEGIANS AND DANES IN THE
SERVICE OF PETER THE GREAT.—FOUNDING OF THE
RUSSIAN NAVY.
VITUS BERING was a son of Jonas Svendsen and
his second wife, Anna Bering of Horsens, at which
place he was born in the summer of 1681. On the
maternal side he descended from the distinguished
Bering family, which during the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries flourished in various parts of Denmark, and
included a very respectable number of ministers and
judicial officers.[1]
Our hero passed his childhood in a Christian family of
culture in the Jutland seaport town of his birth. Here
for a series of years his father filled several positions of
trust, and was closely associated with the leading men of
the place, as his wife’s sister, Margaret Bering, had
married two consecutive mayors. He was, however, far from
being considered well-to-do. He had many children.
One of his sons had caused him much trouble and
expense, and was finally sent to the East Indies. In the
probate record of his estate, made in 1719, there is a deed
of conveyance from himself and wife in which the following
[1] Some details of Bering’s genealogy, which can be of no interest to the American reader, the translator has taken the liberty to omit.
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