ROBERT MOAK 77/100 SLOOP RESTORATION SIGNED PRINT

ROBERT MOAK ORIGINAL SIGNED FRAMED (SOLID OAK) PRINT # 77/100. SMOKE FREE HOME. MUST SEE TO APPRECIATE! After years of searching, it was learned that the original was hanging in the Palace in Oslo. The painting was done for the 1975 150 year anniversary of the sloop party's immigration. On what is considered the first organized emigration from Norway to the United States, Restauration set sail from Stavanger on July 4, 1825, with 52 people aboard, many of them Norwegian Quakers. Probably many of this group belonged to a similar local movement, the Haugeans, a Lutheran sect which derived its name from Hans Nielsen Hauge. The group, led by Cleng Peerson, landed in New York City on October 9, 1825, after a three-month voyage.[2] The voyage is described in Ole Rynning's Amerika-boka (The America Book, 1838).[3][4] For a vessel of her size Restauration had far more passengers on board than were allowed by American law. This resulted in a severe fine, confiscation of the ship and the arrest of the captain, L. O. Helland. The situation was solved when President John Quincy Adams pardoned the captain on 15 November, released him and the ship, and rescinded the fine. The people who made this voyage, who are sometimes referred to as the "Sloopers," moved onward to their first settlement in Kendall, Orleans County, New York.[5][6]