A twelve-year-old immigrant landed at New York.

The evidence

• “When only twelve years old he came across the ocean to America, apparently by himself, and landed at New York in March, 1836. All the money he had was a five franc piece, worth”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 598 / book p. 1082

  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.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources