A resident went to the land sale at Milwaukee on foot with Volney Atwood, Theodore Kendall and others, and stayed until the land was offered and bid off.

The evidence

• “In the fall of 1838 I went to the land sale at Milwaukee on foot with Volney Atwood, Theodore Kendall and others, and stayed there until our land was offered in market and bid off. I was sent by my brother to buy land for Strunk and McNitt.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/08-i-t-smith-reminiscences.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 225 / book p. 205

  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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