Nils Larson Mattson

  Research Notes:

NOTE: I have not been able to find a birth record for Nils Mattson - I have looked at various options in the Sweden Church records, but none have a record of his birth/baptism

Family Search FT: LVBF-3V4
- name as Christine Moody, 1827, married to Nels Mattson
[28 Oct 2021 viewing of pages]
Nils Mattson, b 2 Aug 1827 at Vasa, Västra Götaland, Sweden - this is a newer parish name; nothing before 1908.
Prior to 1908, you have to look at Göteborgs Domkyrkoförsamling (O), C:5, 1816-1827 ; but no birth in 1827 for someone named Nils or in 1826 or 1828 in this volume.

Trinity Lutheran Church records he was born in Wäre [?], Sweden [no parish or placename in Sweden - is it short for Värmland ?; died 15 Aug 1890; arrived in US in 1854
But no birth in Fryskände, Östmark or Lekvattnet; no listing on Ancestry's collection for Swedish Emigratants from
Church books ; nothing in the above parishes in moving out records - 25 Oct 2021

Nils Larson Mattson's birth parish is not clear. His birth date is from the FamilySearch FT.

Note: Trinity Lutheran Church records (image 853) note that he arrived in North America in 1854. I have not researched his emigration.


US Civil War

1890 US Veterans Census reads:
Nels Mattson served with Co L 1st MN Heavy Artillery and lived at Watertown Township.
Source Carver County, Minnesota US Veterans Census MN Historical Society Film series 123. Roll 23.
Left by 1890 Veterans Census, Carver County Minn. on 11 Nov 2020
and, on Ancestry images
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8667/images/MNM123_23-0024?ssrc=&backlabel=Return
-image 3, Carver Co, MN; - living at Watertown Twp; Special Schedule, S.D. 2; ED 7; Minor Civil Division, Watertown, MN
house no/fam no: 161/162 [line 28]
Nels Matsson, Private, Co L, 1st regiment infantry, MN; enlisted 15 Feb 1865; discharged on 27 Sep 1865;
served: 7 months and 12 days
then on the bottom third of the page
line 28: PO address, Watertown, MN; disability: chronic rheumatism
[1890 special census of Civil War Union veterans and widows of veterans]

Ancestry collection, U.S., American Civil War Regiments, 1861-1866
- Nels Mattson MINNESOTA
FIRST HEAVY ARTILLERY: This regiment was organized in the summer of 1864, mustered in by companies and ordered to Chattanooga in the winter of 1864-65. It was composed of twelve companies, each containing 140 men, besides the officers. It was placed in charge of the heavy guns and forts at Chattanooga

US, Civil War Pension Index: Nels Mattson, unit: L 1 Minn. H.a. [Co L 1st MN Heavy Artillery
Widow: Christine Mattson; filed 15 Mar 1889, Invalid; filing 2 Sept 1890: Widow


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1860 US Census, Watertown Township, Carver Co, MN; page 115; enumerated on 23 Jul 1860;
dw/fam 1126/981
Nels Matteson, age 33 b in Sweden; farmer' real estate $250, persaon estate $90
wife Carolina , age 33 b in Swe
John T, age 2 b in Illinois
Hulda, age 7 months b in MN
- on the next page, line 1
Charolott Tinerslatt, age 14, b in Swe [no relationship is noted [likely a servant; spelling of last name may not be accurate]

1865 MN State Census [image 157 of 191, ancestry]; family 17, 2nd side; [enum. 4 May 1865. Watertown Twp,
images 155-170, ]
Nels Matson, age 48, b in Sweden; father and mother - Sweden
Christine, age 48 b in Sweden; father and mother - Sweden
J. P. age 18, b in Swe ???? [actually, Illinois
Matilhda, age 16 b in MN
C. A. age 14, b in MN
Anna, age 8, b in MN
F. A. age 5 b in MN

[in 1865 there is a family - no 167, image 167 - Willima Tinnerstat age 26 b in NY;wife Carry age 26 b in Swe - no Charlotte]
[image 167 fam 173, Anna Burk age 75 and Peter Burk age 72, b abt 1793] b in Swe; a son, Peter age 38 b in Swe
born about 1827; ......... Burke, alternate name for Porkka ?]

- 14 May 2022 - reviewed all images from 1865 MN State - a number of families from Sweden, but only the one above noted]


1870 US Census, Watertown, Carver Co, MN; page 27, image 14, 2nd side; dw/fam 194/197
Nels Mattson, age 44 b in Swe, farmer; real estate, $2500, personal, $800
Christine, age 43 b in Swe
John P age 12, b in Illinois
Hulda, age 10, b in MN
Chas, age 8 b in MN [b abt 1862 - likely Albert Charles, b 1861]
Anna, age 2 b in MN


Land: unknown, .... no record on BLO GLO records

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Alt. Birth: Alt Birth location, 2 Aug 1827, Vasa, Västra Götaland, Sweden. FamilySearch Family Tree (id, G9BX-TT6) records the above birth location. This was likely entered by "rld1428" in 2019 and notes that the information is from "records of Kay Breding Netz 1990"

Nils married Carolina Frank. (Carolina Frank was born on 20 Aug 1826 in Kalmar, Sweden and died about 1865 in Carver Co, Minnesota, United States.)

Nils next married Kjerstin Jonsdotter, daughter of Johan Persson and Annika Ersdotter, on 25 Mar 1866 in Carver Co, Minnesota, United States.⁹²⁰³ (Kjerstin Jonsdotter was born on 22 Apr 1827 in Östmark, Värmland län, Sweden,⁸⁹⁸⁷ died on 15 Apr 1899 in Watertown, Carver Co, Minnesota, United States ⁹²⁰⁴ and was buried in Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery, Watertown, Carver Co, Minnesota, United States.)