Smith's party started on the trail from their house on Otter Creek to Thibeaux's cabin at the foot of Lake Koshkonong, where they met Simeon Towle, who had bought Thibeaux's land-scrip.

The evidence

• “We started on the trail from our house on Otter creek to Thibeaux cabin at the foot of Lake Koshkonong, in September, 1838. At Thibeaux 's we met a man named Simeon Towle, who had bought of Thibeaux his land-scrip, granted him by the government after treating with the Winuebagoes for their lands.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/08-i-t-smith-reminiscences.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 229 / book p. 209

  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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