The first term of the Rock County District Court convened at Janesville, Judge Irwin presiding, and adjourned April 17.

The evidence

• “Frazer was assigned to this district. Three years later, in 1839, Rock county, together with Dane, Walworth and Green counties were constituted the Second district by statute enactment, and so continued until the State Constitution was adopted—Justice Irwin being assigned to preside over it. Pursuant to an enactment of the territorial legislature, passed in the winter of 1839, the first term of the District court in Rock county convened at Janesville on April 15, following, with Judge Irwin on the bench. Among the first items of business vC^as the issuing of a venire by the newly appointed clerk, Mr.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 208 / book p. 712

  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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