A settler bought some land in Dane County without seeing it.

The evidence

• “Some time in 1838 I bought some land in Dane county without seeing it. and afterward I made up my mind to go out and look at the land. I took my brother with me, who hac^ just come on from western New York.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/08-i-t-smith-reminiscences.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 226 / book p. 206

  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