There were individual accessions to other settlements in 1841-42, but they are few in number. With 1843 the immigration movement receives a new impulse, but the discussion of that year will better be postponed until we have recorded the founding of some other important settlements in 1840-42. [118] Nor any from other provinces, for Hermund Tufte who, in Holand's _De norske Settlementers Historie_, is said to have come in 1841, did not come before 1842. [119] See below under Rock Prairie. [120] The _Biographical Review of Dane County, Wisconsin_, 1893, page 239, gives 1842 as the year Seamon A. Seamonson came from Skien, Norway, to Racine County, his wife and three children coming the next year (see later chapter). CHAPTER XVIII _The Establishment of the Koshkonong Settlement in Dane County, Wisconsin_. The genesis of the settlement of Koshkonong Prairie[121] in Dane County, Wisconsin, the most noted undoubtedly of all Norwegian settlements in America, dates from 1840. The recital of this event, however, will take us back to the preceding year; for the first visit of Norwegians to Dane County, is, I believe, correctly recorded as having taken place in 1839. Before discussing the first coming of Norse pioneers to Koshkonong I shall mention a few "first settlers" in Dane County, who preceded the Norwegians; to do this will help to give us a better idea of the state of wilderness which they found there, and which they in a few years transformed into a settled and thriving community. [121] In reality a group of prairies.