Mr. Natesta worked by the day in northern Illinois after his arrival.

The evidence

• “On his arrival in the spring of 1838 Mr. Natesta worked by the day in the northern part of Illinois, but in July of that year he bought land in Clinton township, where in 1839 he built a small log house, in which he received his fellow countrymen named above.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 505 / book p. 991

  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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