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Hegge family documents, 2003
- Title
- Hegge family documents, 2003
- Identifier
- P1682
- Date
- 2003
- Description
- Hegge family documents (photoscan and summary) detailing family bible and the "Mayville" and "Whitehall" documents [retrieved from farm of Hegge, Norway either in 1880 or 1906 and brought to Whitehall, Wisconsin by Nels (Neils) Hegge. Some of the documents were later given to Isaac Hegge of Mayville, North Dakota.
Summary information and photoscans of several documents grouped under "Mayville" documents, including: a deed to Torger Pederson Heggen of a part of the farm of ostre (east) Hegge (1722); Anders Anderson Klocker has purchased the farm of Heggen at public auction (1726); a deed to the farm of Hegge (1727); Klocker paid his debt (1728); at the farm of Kluke in Biri, registered at Melby court on Nov. 17, 1730. Klocker sells farm to Ole Olsen Onsom of Ringsaker parish (1730); Record of payment of dues (rent) (1731); a form letter related to the last will and testament of the former "vaktmester" of the Opland Dragoons regiment Ole Olson Hegge. (1821/31); Last Will and Testiment of Ole Olson Hegge III (1832); a '"foderadsbrev" (retirement agreement) between Ole Baardsen Hegge and wife Oline Nielsdatter on the one hand, and their son-in-law, Frederik Evensen Krageberg, on the other (1833); a small pox vaccination certificate for Even Fredriksen Hegge (1838).
"Whitehall" documents include: letter from the royal viceroy to the following people on the two Hegge farms. It is an evaluation of various farms in Biri. The letter is directed to (Torsten Pedersen Hegge, Marte Olsdatter, Ole Arnesen, and Halvor Olsen Hegge). Note: Ole Olson Onson purchased Hegge in 1730; a froderadsbrev (pension agreement) stems from second husband of Mari Baardsdatter who married Ole Olson Hegge II (possibly the same as one of the "Mayville' documents; a letter from King Frederick the 4th of Norway relating to the crown's sale of ostre (east) Hegge to Klocker (1726); Ole Olsen ostre Hegge's transfer of the farm to his son Ole Olsen and daughter-in-law Mari Baardsdatter (1748); Settlement of the este of Ole Olsen Hegge I and his late wife Eli Pedersdatter. This document provides genealogical information, which is not in the printed Norwegian sources (1767); Baard Olsen ostre Hegge purchases the farm (1782); Baard Olsen Hegge's pension agreement with his mother (1783); Gubir Pedersdatter Simestad had been the ward of Ole Olson Hegge (1765) - Extent
- 1 folder
- Type
- Photocopies
Citation
“Hegge family documents, 2003,” Norwegian-American Historical Association, accessed September 20, 2024, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/10614.