The United States appropriated $40,000 to defray the expense of removing the Winnebagoes still south of the Wisconsin river; a band of them was camped opposite Turtle village and helped Caleb Blodgett build his double log cabin.

The evidence

• “Pottawattomies were removed from Wisconsin, leaving some 7,000 in our territory. In 1836 the United States appropriated $40,000 to defray the expense of removing the Winnebagoes, who still remained south of the Wisconsin river. It was one of those bands of Winnebagoes, gathered for removal, who were camped on the west bank of Rock river opposite Turtle village when Caleb Blodgett came here in 1836 and who helped him build his double log cabin. In the treaty of 1837 they had agreed to remove within eight months, but by October, 1839, had not yet made any general effort to do so.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/02-ancient-occupants.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 42 / book p. 33

  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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