Once Upon a House

June 10, 1839

Churchill and Ogden went to the mill at Beloit with a grist.

BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source

The evidence

  • “Dec. 18, 1838.-Ogden and Churchill went out hunting and got a fat doe and lugged it home three miles on their backs. June 10, 1839- Churchill and Ogden went to Beloit to mill with grist to get ground. It was muddy, hard going and they could not get the grist ground for ten days; they found their grist they had sent there before by Butts was done. Oct. 6, 1839.-Ogden and churchill went fishing and got forty or fifty fish: pike, perch, bass, sunfish, suckers, and frogs. May 23, 1841.”

    1900-caswell-reminiscences/07-fort-atkinson-and-early-janesville.md, PDF pp. 3–27

    Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte. The Reminiscences of the Hon. L. B. Caswell. Written at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1914–1916; four-column newspaper reprint, newspaper and date unidentified. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

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