Mr. Hackett came with his father-in-law Caleb Blodgett and the Blodgett boys to the spot where the city of Beloit now stands, the land not yet open to government entry.

The evidence

• “There also he married the accomplished and beautiful daughter of Caleb Blodgett. That Ohio venture proving a failure through fault of his partner, involving the loss of his $2,000, in the year 1836 Mr. Hackett came with his father-inlaw and the sturdy Blodgett boys to the spot where the city of Beloit now stands, the land at that time being not yet even open to government entry.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 341 / book p. 837

  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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