A party with an ox team left Milwaukee westward for the Rock River valley to find homes.

The evidence

• “A. Jewett, Gilbert McNaught, and my brother, we left Milwaukee in the month of September, 1836, with an ox team, wending our way westward for the Rock river valley, for the purpose of finding homes in this, then far Northwest, so recently the theatre of the severe and protracted conflict Letween Black Hawk and his savage hordes, and the "pale faces;" in which the." Indians had the worst of the , conflict, not to say of the cause, and in which they were completely subdued and driven beyond the Mississippi, and a permanent peace established a few years previous, 'We took aboard a bag of flour, some pork, and a very few cooking utensils—sufficient for "baching it" on the frontier. After leaving Waukesha, we found but one settler before reaching what is now the city of Janesville.”

  1856-history-of-rock-county/04-correspondence-pioneer-letters.md, PDF p. 59 / book p. 41

  Guernsey, Orrin, and Josiah F. Willard, editors. History of Rock County, and Transactions of the Rock County Agricultural Society and Mechanics' Institute. Janesville, Wis.: William M. Doty & Brother, 1856. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871593.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources

  

• “A. Jewett, Gilbert McNaught and my brother, we left Milwaukee in the month of September, 1836, with an ox team, wending our way westward for the Rock River Valley, for the purpose of finding homes in this then far Northwest, so recently the theater of the severe and protracted conflict between Black Hawk and his savage hordes and the "pale faces," in which the Indians had the worst of the conflict, not to say of the cause, and in which they were completely subdued and driven beyond the Mississippi, and a permanent peace established. We took aboard a bag of flour, some pork, aiid a very few cooking utensils — sufficient for "baching it" on the frontier.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/09-rock-county-ch03-pioneer-reminiscences.md, PDF p. 341 / book p. 345

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources · may repeat 1856-history-of-rock-county, so not counted as independent