264. Lars Zakrisson264 Lars Zakrisson, IX:9. Born ca 1645 in Lungsjön, Ramsele. Lars died in Holmen, Flåsjön on 2 Nov 1717; he was 72. Occupation: Settler. Residence: Havsnäs, Ström.Sources: Georg Hansson, Havsnäs 7; Menker Lungsjön 3 R Gothe; Finnkolonisationen pages 185-188 (Father 528; Mother 529) The Finn Lars Zakrisson has probably moved from Lungsjön in the parish of Ramsele. The farm in Havsnäs was together with the other Finnish farms (Ringvattnet, Alanäs and Hillsand) liable to taxation for 1/4 mantal. The old Per Larsson from Rörström was the father in law to Sophia Pålsdotter in her first marriage. When he was old he moved to Havsnäs. He died there in 1682 and was then 105 years old. Lars Zakrisson transported him with great difficulties to the Finnish temple, the old church in Ström. The accusation of Per Larsson against Måns Olufson in Hoting (the ancestor of the bishop Manfred Björkquist!) is shown under ID 2800. There were long family quarrels about the inheritance after the old person. These were treated at the district court sessions. In the minutes of 1696 we find welcome contributions to the relationship. Isak Pederson was the first settler in Havsnäs. He and his wife Sophia had the son Päder Isaksson and two daughters. Brita was married to the dragoon Isak (Persson) Flink and Anna was later married to the dragoon Abraham (Persson) Wallman. The widow Sophia married Lars Zakrisson. They had one son and one daughter. Lars was then stepfather to the two dragoons and their wives and to Päder Isakson. The dragoon Flink quarreled most. He was obviously a loose-living and restless fellow. He was in a perpetual state of feud with his wife, which is shown in the Judgement Book. Furthermore he once reported several Finns in the area of Flåsjön for illegal elk-hunting. To be excused from the fine they left their farms and run away to Norway. Also Flink went to Norway. But he returned after some years. The quarrel about the old farm gave Lars Zakrisson cause for moving. In the year 1689 he started to build a new farm on an islet outside the old farm. Before this happened Lars had used half of the old farm and Pär Isaksson used the other half. Lars left completely the old farm in the year 1691. Pär Isaksson sold the farm some years later (1696) to Per Persson. The quarrels that followed are reported under Per Persson (ID 266). The new farm on Storholmen outside Havsnäs is 1689 "situated 1/8 mil (1 mil = about 6 miles) from Hafsnäs on an island or an isthmus where it never is freezing" (Judgement Book 1692). Lars Zakrisson is called "the settler". He was a very busy person. Already in 1693 he can in the register of tithes show a harvest of 12 shocks of rye and 32 shocks of barley. Five years later the figures are 36 and 60 shocks. The pioneer on "Holmen" was then already in 1693 taxed for 1/4 mantal, that is exactly the same as for the other Finnish farms, which, however, had been exempted from taxation for many years. Lars Zakrisson died in the year 1717. He had already in 1703 left the farm on Holmen to the son Zakris Larsson. In 1678 when Lars was 33, he married Sofia Pålsdotter, IX:10. They had one child:
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