Cleng Peerson

[4] [5] Cleng Peerson was born Klein Pedersen near the community of Tysvær in the county of Rogaland, Norway.

They moved to northern New York, settling about 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Rochester in the town of Kendall, near Lake Ontario, in Orleans County.

By 1840, Peerson had settled in Sugar Creek in Montrose Township, Lee County in the southeastern part of Iowa.

In 1847, he joined the Swedish immigrant society at Bishop Hill Colony in Henry County, Illinois, which had been founded by sect leader Erik Janson.

The True Saga Of Cleng Peerson are novels written by Alfred Hauge (translated by John Weinstock and Turid Sverre.