The Caswell family left Vermont by wagon for the Wisconsin territory, and a memoirist left Vermont the same day for the Rock river country.

The evidence

• “To resume the story of my people: We could not stay and listen to the echoes of the rocks and hills of Vermont and be satisfied with small crops, long winters, and deep snows when there was a garden of Eden within reach. So we began to box our goods and pack our trunks, and gather together our small hard earned belongings and on the 6th day of September, 1836, got into a wagon drawn by two horses, turned our backs upon the state that had given us birth, and started for the far off territory of Wisconsin. We reached the village of Highgate, near the Canadian line, the first night, and there stayed till morning.”

  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