Rev. Cutting Marsh, the missionary, wrote that the whole number of Winnebagoes near the lake of that name was then 4,300.

The evidence

• “But most of all, the Winnebagoes, while remaining in large numbers near the lake of that name (Rev. Cutting Marsh, the missionary, wrote in 1831 that the whole number of them there .then was 4,300) extended their occupation south-”

  1908-brown-rock-county/02-ancient-occupants.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 36 / book p. 28

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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