Ansten Knudsen (Natesta) and Thorsten Nilsen took title to their Clinton lands — the earliest Scandinavian freeholds there.

The evidence

• “E. 1/2, N. E. 14—Thosten Nilsen, December 25, 1839. S.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/18-scandinavians.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 468 / book p. 434

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources