A father brought his family to Rock county, Wisconsin, and settled on a farm of 160 acres.

The evidence

• “H. The father moved to Vermont when quite young and lived there until 1847, when he brought his family to Rock county, Wisconsin, and settled on the farm of 160 acres which he had bought in 1846 for 20 shillings per acre. Here he made a permanent home and engaged in farming until his death in July, 1852, at the age of sixty years.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 472 / book p. 959

  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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