The Scandinavian names in an unlettered community, soon become indistinguishable from those of the surrounding American's--Jansen, Petersen, etc., being readily Americanized.

It is therefore rarely that they show their parentage.

Still, we now and then come across one that is unmistakable, as Erickson, for instance (see p.

51 of Col.

Reuben T.
Durrett's admirable "Life and Writings of John Filson," Louisville and Cincinnati, 1884).
18.MS.Journal of Matthew Clarkson, 1766.