Mr. Tuttle first went to Beloit and, in the same spring, made a claim in Clinton, entering 320 acres.

The evidence

• “Charles was at home till he became of age, and, in 1835, went to Ohio; was there till the spring of 1836, then went to- Michigan and claimed a farm ; that summer, went to Chicago, where Fort Dearborn stood, and a garrison* was posted there ; was only one bridge ; Beaubien kept a hotel there then ; stopped with a cousin named Kimball, who was keeping a store on Lake street ; that fall, went back to New York ; returned the same fall to Chicago, and spent the winter teaming ; used to go to Milwaukee, Rockford, Michigan City and other places ; in spring of 1837, several New York men, Mr. Tuttle among the number, started out prospecting ; fir.st went to Beluit, April, 1837, and, in the same spring, he made a claim in Clinton ; entered 320 acres ; there was not a house on Jefierson Prairie ; the first house on the Indian trail to Chicago wa& at the head of Geneva Lake ; frames of Indian wigwams were standing on his farm. Married, September, 1838, Elmina Gilbert, daughter of Roswell Gilbert ; her mother's maiden name was Wheat ; she came from a notable family of that name that settled in Connecticut at a very early day ; have had six chUdren — Eugene H.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/20-bios-clinton.md, PDF p. 783

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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