The New England Emigrating Company acquired land connected with the future Beloit settlement, and the organization’s arrival was identified by local historical sources as a decisive stage in the community’s growth.

The evidence

• “lements here and fled. Joseph Thibeau was the first white man in Beloit following the departure of the Ho-Chunk. A French fur trader, with a good reputation with the area’s tribes, Thibeau settled at the southwestern corner of present day State Street and Shirland Avenue. It was he who greeted Caleb Blodgett, Beloit’s first permanent settler. Thibeau sold Blodgett “three looks of land” and that purchase marks Beloit’s beginning as a village. With the arrival of the New England Immigrating Company in 1836, the growth of the fledgling community was assured. The settlers came from Colebrook, New Hampshire, and were led by the able scout, Dr. Horace White. They bought land from Caleb Blodgett, started developing it, and soon family and friends were moving to the area. Churches and schools were planned, mills were running using water from Turtle Creek and the Rock River. Businesses took root and the village was named “Beloit.” Only eleven years later—in 1847—the cornerstone of Beloit College’s first”

  https://beloithistory.org/beloit-history/

  beloithistory.org, https://beloithistory.org/beloit-history/

  Grade B: Found on an institutional web page