Thibault sold his twelve-by-sixteen log cabin to Messrs. Crane and Bicknell and removed with his family to Lake Koshkonong.

The evidence

• “The trader's son, said to be then about nineteen years old, and reckless yet intelligent, spoke not only English but also several Indian dialects, and wished to go west and be an interpreter, a plan which his father opposed. In the spring of 1837 Thibault sold his twelve-by-sixteen log cabin to Messrs. Crane and Bicknell and soon afterward removed with all his family to Lake Koshkouong.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/06-history-of-beloit.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 144 / book p. 129

  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.

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