A settler (with James Pierce and a boxed-up load of goods from his little store) left Alfred, New York, traveling by team to Buffalo and by steamboat, landing at Milwaukee and coming on foot.

The evidence

• “Crandall, and hired a young man, James Pierce, to go with him. He boxed up a load of goods from his little store, and on June 26, 1838, they left Alfred, with them journeying to Buffalo with the team and then by steamboat up around the great lakes. They landed in Milwaukee and from there came on foot.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 446 / book p. 936

  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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