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APPENDIX B. EARLY SWEDISH SETTLEMENTS IN U.S.A. 447
This party was also increased in 1847, and new emigrants joined
them in the following years. A number of them finally settled
down and founded the Swedish colony at Jamestown, N.Y.
8. HOUSTON, TEXAS. 1849.
About fifty Swedes came here in 1849, m company with
Mr. M. S. Swenson, and settled in Houston, Texas, where
Mr. C. Swenson already owned property.
9. CHISAGO LAKE, MINNESOTA. 1850-1851.
Some 100 Swedes from Helsingland and Medelpad came
to New York in 1850. Most of them settled in Knox and Henry
Counties, Ills. A few of them, however, went north the next
year, and founded the colony of Chisago Lake, Minn. In
1853 a large number from Kronoberg joined this colony.
Among the emigrants, 1851, was also Dr. Norelius.
10. MANITOWOC AND WAUPACA, WISCONSIN. 1850.
One hundred and eleven emigrants left Gefle in 1850. Some
of them settled in Galva, Watago and Henderson, Ills., but a
large part of them went north, and founded the Swedish settle
ments in Manitowoc and Waupaca, Wis.
ii. GALESBURG, ILLINOIS. 1851.
About 100 Swedes from Northern Skane settled, in 1851, in
Galesburg and Knoxville, Ills. The following year a still
larger company of emigrants, these also from Northern Skane,
joined the Galesburg settlers. Rev. T. U. Hasselquist, founder
of the Augustana Synod and Augustana College, was in this
company.
12. LA FAYETTE, INDIANA. 1852.
A considerable number of Swedes migrated in 1852 from
Grenna, and settled in La Fayette, Ind. In the t\vo years
following large numbers were added, and the settlement was
extended by small colonies in West Point, Attica, Millford and
Yorktown, Ind.
13. ST. CHARLES, ILLINOIS. 1852.
The same year a number of emigrants from Westergotland
settled in St. Charles, Ills.
14. VASA, MINNESOTA. 1853.
A large number of emigrants from Northern Skane came to
America in 1853, under the leadership of Colonel Hans
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