Freeman Bacon and family arrived in Wisconsin and located in (now) Harmony Township, buying 360 acres.

The evidence

• “Bacon, with his wife, went from Massachusetts, in 1834, to Monroe Co., N. Y. ; in 1844, he started for the Badger State ; arrived here in Wisconsin in the fall ; immediately located in what was then Janesville (now Harmony) Township, where he and his brother Owen together bought 360 acres of land ; the same year. Freeman pre-empted 120 acres of land, which increased in value, and he sold it in 1850 ; a few years afterward, the brothers divided their property, his brother Owen taking 200 acres, and Freeman the remaining 160, which he some time afterward disposed of, and bought 240 acres ^here he now lives ; he has improved the farm, made fences and built barns, etc.; he raises grain, vegetables and stock — Jersey and Durham cattle, sheep, Poland-China hogs (called the prettiest hogsin this section of the country), Black Hawk breed of horses, etc.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/35-bios-bradford.md, PDF p. 886 / book p. 890

  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.

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