Mr. Barker purchased thirteen hundred acres of land near Janesville.

The evidence

• “In the spring of 1839 Mr. Barker purchased thirteen hundred acres of land near Janesville, Wis.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/19-pioneer-women.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 499 / book p. 463

  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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