Since the above was written I have received from Reverend L. S. J. Reque of Morrisonville, Wisconsin, further facts relative to the earliest settlers there. The earliest records of the Bonnet Prairie Church kept by Reverend A. C. Preus show that the testimonial of emigration was issued to "Eivind T. Indlæggen." April 5, 1843, to "Johannes Johannesen" April 10th, 1843, to John Anderson and wife May 3d and 6th, 1843, to "Hans Olsen Haukaas" May 7th, 1843. Also to "Thorbjörn Samsonsen and wife Anna Ellingsdatter" May 13th, 1844. As it is probable that these emigrated at the time of issue of the testimonial of emigration the table should be corrected with reference to these names. During the intervening three years most of the above had lived in Boone County, Illinois, whither also some of the later settlers came en route to Bonnet Prairie. Thorbjörn Skutle and family who came from Voss, sailing on the ship _Hercules_, located first at Jefferson Prairie. T. Skutle and his wife both died in 1897, age 88 and 91 respectively. CHAPTER XXXIX _Blue Mounds in Western Dane County, Wisconsin_ The extensive Norwegian settlement in Western Dane County, ordinarily referred to as Blue Mounds from the "blue mounds" in the township of that name, was founded in 1846. Three families had, however, located there as early as 1844, namely those of Thor Aase, Peder Dusterud, and Lars P. Dusterud. Thor Aase, with wife Martha, five sons and two daughters,[370] settled on section ten in Springdale; they came from Sogn in 1843 and had lived one year at Wiota. Peder Dusterud and wife and family settled on section 33 in Blue Mounds and the son Lars Dusterud and wife located on section 27, both in Blue Mounds Township. These two came from Rock Run, Illinois, where they had located in 1842, immigrating from Vægli, Numedal.[371] They had also worked for some time in the Dodgeville, Wis., lead mines. [370] The children were Ivar (b. 1818), Lasse, Hermund, Talak, John, Synneva, and Britha. [371] Lars Dusterud and wife are still living at Mt. Horeb. In 1846 a company of eleven persons arrived from Racine County; they were the following: Tore Toreson Spaanem, Halvor and Nils H. Grasdalen, John I. Berge and wife Julia and one child, his sister Mrs. Knut Sörenson Kvisterud, Tosten Thompson Rue, Ole T. Garden, Ole Kvisterud, and Ole Sjutvett. Knut S. Kvisterud, who had just before this gone to Mineral Point and secured work there, came to Blue Mounds in 1848. John Thompson later was more generally called "Snow-shoe Thompson" from the fact that he carried the U. S. mail over the Sierra Nevada Mountains for twenty years (1856-1876), walking on _skis_.