Israel Cheney was appointed the first county treasurer, and the Beloit & Milwaukee highway was established and laid out; a resident was also appointed by the territorial legislature a commissioner to lay out roads from Beloit to Milwaukee and to Madison.

The evidence

• “Israel Cheney was appointed the first county treasurer and his first report shows collections $1,270 and expenditures $1,278. During the year 1840 the Beloit & Milwaukee highway was established and laid out. In January, 1841, Israel Cheney, county treasurer, reported collections for previous year as $3,462.99 and expenditures of $2,523.34.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/09-county-government.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 257 / book p. 235

  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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