A settler came to Beloit, which then had about three hundred inhabitants, all on the east side of the river.

The evidence

• “" I came to Beloit in October, 1841 ; the settlement had then about three hundred ; it was all on the east side of the river ; I held through the winter a line of singing-schools at White- Water, Fort Atkinson, Milton, Beloit and Rockford ; the winter was, beautiful, from six to ten inches of snow ; the next winter was the hard winter ; sleighing from the 9th of November, 1842, to the 10th of April, 1843 ; teams crossed Rock River on the ice the 11th of April.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/15-rock-county-ch09-beloit.md, PDF p. 612 / book p. 616

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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

• “"I came to Beloit in October, 1841. The settlement had then about 300 inhabitants, all on the east side of the river.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/06-history-of-beloit.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 166 / book p. 150

  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 · may repeat 1879-history-of-rock-county, so not counted as independent