Samuel August Pehrsson
Alternate Names
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Samuel August Peterson
His surname was listed as "Persson," in the Mormon Migration database and as "Petersson," in the "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," collection on Ancestry.com. The company manifest lists the surname as "Pehrsen." he was listed as "Sven A," on the company manifest. Later censuses indicate that the surname was Americanized to Peterson.The family lived in Utah for awhile but eventually settled in Colorado.
William B. Preston Company (1864)
- Age at Departure: 10
Traveled with
Sources
- 1900 United States Federal Census
- “Captain William B. Preston Company (first ox train), manifest, 1864.” Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts, 1862-1868.
- Find a Grave (Website)
- New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957.
- Parish Register of Everod, Kristianstad, Sweden.