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Brigham Young University

Swiss American Historical Society Review

1995

Niklaus Durst

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Arrival And First Days In New Glarus, Niklaus Dürst Jun 1995

Arrival And First Days In New Glarus, Niklaus Dürst

Swiss American Historical Society Review

1845 on July 17th, we purchased for the esteemed Emigration Society of the Canton of Glarus, at the land office in Mineral Point, Wisconsin Territory, 1200 (twelve hundred) acres of land, namely in Greene County township 4 range 7, at the government price of 1 1/ 4 dollars per acre which on the following days we had surveyed and divided up in 60 lots (parcels) by the surveyor Comfort whom we had to pay wages of 3 dollars per day. Sunday, 20th inst. Mr. Friedrich Streiff and myself, together with our present wagoner, Mr. Friedrich Rudolf of Zurzach (Switzerland) have …