Mr. Chamberlin moved from Connecticut to Wisconsin in 1838 and purchased a tract of government land in what is now Bradford township, where he built a home and reared his family.

The evidence

• “Mr. Chamberlain moved from his old home in Connecticut to the then new and undeveloped state of Wisconsin in 1838 and purchased a tract of land from the government in whal is now Bradford township, Rock county, where he built a home and reared his family. This was in the good old times when bear meat and venison were staples in the settlers' larder.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 352 / book p. 848

  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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