September 1823 — The father of a Beloit resident died in Grafton Co., N. H.

The evidence

• “Beloit ; born in Grafton Co., N. H., in September, 1814 ; his mother, Mary Hand, died there in 1869 ; his father died there in September, 1823 ; be left home after his father's death, and lived with an uncle and worked on his farm five years; he then went to another farmer and worked three years for him; went thence to Washington Co., N. Y., where he learned his trade of blacksmith ; he worked at his trade in Benton, Bath and other places in New Hampshire, and then went to Chicopee, Mass., where he worked for the Ames Manufacturing Company for eight years, at Collinsville ; worked for the Collins Manufacturing Company for sixteen years ; in 1860, came to Beloit and bought sixty acres of land in Sec. 27 from John Dates, Mr.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/18-bios-beloit.md, PDF p. 747 / book p. 751

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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