Joseph and William Spaulding came with their families and entered adjoining claims/farms four miles north of Janesville.

The evidence

• “William Spaulding and Joseph Spaulding both came in the spring of 1837, with their families, and entered adjoining farms on the Milton road four miles northeast of Janesville, of which one is still held in the family, and the other has passed out of it but recently.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 15 / book p. 530

  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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