Young Leonard and party walked to Pope's ferry, four miles above Janesville; he hired out by the month to Hiram Griffith.

The evidence

• “Thence they walked to Pope's ferry, four miles above Janesville. This was in April, 1840. After a few days young Leonard made a reconnoitering trip to the site of the present town of Evansville and hired out by the month to Hiram Griffith, a hardy pioneer, for whom he worked some three years, teaching in the winter of 1840 in Green”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 515 / book p. 1001

  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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