The Caswell family sold their claim for $125 in store goods to newcomer Peleg Carr.

The evidence

• “This was so much more profitable and in his line, that he abandoned all idea of moving out to his claim, and gave it up to us. We were much better satisfied with a claim upon the river bank than to go back into the country, even if the land was not quite so good; so in September, 1839, we sold our claim for $125 in store goods to a newcomer, Mr. Peleg Carr, a brother-in-law of Mr.”

  1900-caswell-reminiscences/04-journey-to-rock-river-and-settlement.md, PDF pp. 3–27

  Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte. The Reminiscences of the Hon. L. B. Caswell. Written at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1914–1916; four-column newspaper reprint, newspaper and date unidentified. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources