Charles Peck, builder, arrived with his large family.

The evidence

• “Then in 1841 arrived Charles Peck, builder, with his large family. May ], 1843. he finished John Hackett's residence, where the high school building now stands, the first house on the west side of the river. And from Michigan, also in 1841, we have”

  1908-brown-rock-county/06-history-of-beloit.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 165 / book p. 149

  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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