A family came west by way of the Erie canal, around the Great Lakes and by teams, locating in Rock county, Wisconsin.

The evidence

• “In June, 1849, the family came west by the way of the Erie canal, around the Great Lakes and by teams, locating in Rock county, Wisconsin.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/20-medical-history.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 512 / book p. 474

  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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