The Bostwick family removed to Stafford, Genesee county, New York.

The evidence

• “Bostwick, who is counted among Janesville 's pioneer merchants and substantial citizens, is a native of Bethany, Genesee county, New York. He was born February 3, 1834, the son of Joseph Bostwick, who removed with his family to Stafford, in the same county, in 1836, and eleven years later settled at Janesville, Wis. Joseph attended the common schools in his earlier boyhood, but at the age of fourteen years engaged as a clerk in the general merchandising store of Messrs.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 394 / book p. 887

  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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