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Sheryl Lewis
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 Posted - 10/02/2009 : 01:32:17
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I would like a copy of the passenger list that appeared in the newspaper article reference on this link. My ancestor Lars Tarjesen Revskjel was one of the signers of this document. Not only am I interested from a personal point of view but also because I am a teacher involved in a grant called Teaching American History and obtaining primary document copies is a part of our project.
Please advise how I could get a copy. Your website provided a major breakthrough in my research! Because Quebec did not keep records during this time period, your addition of this article really added spice as well as invaluable information on ship, sailing date and arrival. Thank you so much!
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Trond
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Norway
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Posted - 10/02/2009 : 19:35:15
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Her is a copy of the Recommendation found in the Skien based newspaper Correspondenten September 15, 1852
Recommendasjon
Til norske Landsmænd, der agte at emigrere til Nordamerica. Som Passagerer paa Skibet ”Bolivar”, der Dags Datum er landet ved Quebeck, vil vi ingenlunde holde os tilbage fra at gjøre vore Landsmænd, især de der agte at udvandre til de nordamerikanske Fristater, opmærksomme paa at ovennevævnte Skib er saa vel indrettet, med Hensyn til det der skal vedligeholde Emigranternes Sundhed og Helbred, som nogenlunde tænkes kan.
1) Er der paa Grund af dets Størrelse meget Rum i Alle Dele, da der under Dækket er indrettet to Rum, er til daglig Opholdsted, hvori Passagererne have deres Køier, der ere saa rummelige, at enhver voxen Person af middels Høide kan sidde ret op.
2) Er Underummet, eller som det i Almindelighed kaldes af os, Kjælderen, til Opbevarelse af adskillige Varer, saasom Øll, Viin osv.
3) Er ovennevnte Skib indrettet med gode Luftrør, at Passagererne aldrig plages af usund og qvalm Luft.
4) Er det godt og seilbart og meget trøstelig at færdes paa over det store Ocean.
Hva Skibets Fører, Herr Capitain Pettersen, angaar, saa er han, efter vores Erfaring, ikke alene en selskabelig og ordentlig, men ogsaa en menneskekjærlig Mand, der med Upartished og Religiøsitet har behandlet enhver rettskaffen og flittig Emigrant, paa hvilket han aflaade flere Beviser, da der i Førstningen af vor Seilads vare mange of os, der bleve forfulgt af adskillige Sygdommer, Hvilke foraarsagdes af Søluften og gjorde os tildeels modløse. Lidt kyndig i Lægevidenskaben meddelte han ikke alene sine Patienter de til Sygdommen passende Mediciner gratis, men indfant sig ogsaa ved deres Køier forskjellige Gange hver Dag, for at opmuntre dem og eftersee, at de brugte saadan Diæt, der ikke hindrede Medicinernes gode Virkninger.
Det vil vel næsten være overflødig at sige han er en duelig Skibsfører, da Rygtet siger han er en intelligent Søman, og sin(?) Bestemmelse fuldkommen voxen; og vore egne Øine have seet, at Skibet Bolivar, naar vi har været i Compagni med andre Skibe, altid er bleven Seirvinden.
Det bemærkes, at Quarantane-Pladsens Læge, saavel som andre Autoriteter i Quebeck, som en Følge af Capitainens Orden, afgav den Erklæring, at saadant Skib med Passagerer ledsaget af Orden og Reenlighed, neppe var ankommet til Landet.
For at sparer unødvendig Udlæg i Postporto, blev Emigranterne enige med sig selv, at udvælge tvende respectable Mænd af hver Bygdelag til at underskrive for de Øvrige.
Halvorsen, H. Bjørnesen, Ole Herbjørnsen Øine fra Tind, E. Endresen, Jens Poulsen Blom, Kittil Heljesen, ibid Halvor Høljesen, Thov Olsen, Stener Mikkelsen af Laurdal, Ole Halvorsen Venløs, Eidsborg, John Olsen Magnusbommen, Andreas Olsen Saugvolden fra Tveten, Syvert Syvertsen Kallerud af Kongsberg, Paul Halvorsen Svervelien af Fladdal, Hølje Olsen Satin ibid, Jacob Peersen Kjeldalen og Ole Jacobsen Kjeldalen af Eidanger, Aanond Gundersen Nordtvedt og Ole Wettlesen Bergland af Moe Præstegjeld, Tarje Gundersen Findreng of Vraadals Annex, Hans Olsen Kraagenæs ibid, Lars Tarjesen Revskjeld, Ole Halvorsen Gadeholdt og Aadne Tollefsen af Laurdal, Thorgrim Thorgrimsen Uvaas af Hjertdal, Knud Halvorsen Gryde af Moland.
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Trond
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Posted - 11/02/2009 : 19:52:06
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Recommendation, for our countrymen with intends to immigrate to North America.
We passengers on the Ship Bolivar will become aware for our countrymen who intend to immigrate to the North American free states about this Ship. She is arranged to maintain the immigrants health and cure by all means.
1) By its size there is plenty off room to share. Below deck there are arranged two rooms where passengers have their berths and they are so large that a grown up median adult can sit up straight.
2) Under room or as we called it the “basement” is for keeping different commodity like beer and wine and so on.
3) The ship is equipped with airways so the passengers never had to worry about unhealthy and nauseating air.
4) It is a good sail ship and very comfortable for journey over the ocean
About the captain Mr. Pettersen who is by our judgments not only a social and proper also a human loving man. By his impartial and religious character he had managed each and every immigrant on a way that there are several of evidence of. On the start of our sailing there were many of us that got several illnesses by the sea air and disheartened. With his small skilled medical knowledge he gave his patients medicine for free to cure their illnesses, he also visited their berths regularly to make sure that his patients had their meals and that the medicine worked well. The rumor says he is a skilled sailor and grown up adult. We always won sailing when we had company with other ships.
It to be said that the quarantine doctor in Quebec gave the statement that there had never been a ship like this arriving due to its order and cleanness and that’s the Captains cause.
To spear unnecessary postage we the immigrants decided that two respectable men of each county (bygdelag) to sign this letter on behalf of all the others.
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Bolivar 1852 Passenger List
