Two Churchill brothers, Bradford and Luther, started from Vermont for the West to reconnoiter.

The evidence

• “So in the spring of 1836, two brothers of the Churchill family, Bradford and Luther, started for the West, to reconnoiter, and report. They found their way around by the lakes to the village of Milwaukee.”

  1900-caswell-reminiscences/01-introduction-and-family-background.md, PDF pp. 3–27

  Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte. The Reminiscences of the Hon. L. B. Caswell. Written at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1914–1916; four-column newspaper reprint, newspaper and date unidentified. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

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