The Bierche/Walstad Farm Archive Journals consist of two ledger books, dating from 1650-1860. The first ledger book is hand-written entirely in Norwegian and can be illegible due to the writing style. An inscription on the first page states that O. A. Walstad of Douglas County, Minnesota, owned the ledger in 1903. The ledger contains documents pertinent to the Bierche farm, located in the Veldre sogn (parish) of Ringsaker kommune (community) in Hedemarken fylke (county), in eastern Norway and northeast of Oslo. The documents begin in 1650 and end in 1777, although they are not consistently chronological. The journal appears to be a family archive of official documents related to farms owned by the family.
