The narrator's father returned from Pennsylvania to make improvements on his claims near Beloit.

The evidence

• “Of him my father purchased a couple of "claims," one very near the village of Beloit, the other a few miles out. Passing the ensuing winter in Pennsylvania, he returned to make some improvements on his claims in the spring of 1837, accompanie] by my brother and brother-in-law, C. W.”

  1856-history-of-rock-county/04-correspondence-pioneer-letters.md, PDF p. 50 / book p. 32

  Guernsey, Orrin, and Josiah F. Willard, editors. History of Rock County, and Transactions of the Rock County Agricultural Society and Mechanics' Institute. Janesville, Wis.: William M. Doty & Brother, 1856. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871593.

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