A boy of eleven (Caswell) started alone and made his way to Janes's house near Janesville, staying over night.

The evidence

• “For the first year Janes, the founder of Janesville, ten miles away, was our nearest neighbor. In 1838, when eleven years of age, I started alone and made my way to his house. I stayed with him over night in his log but comfortable house His was the only one I saw.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/07-caswell-reminiscences.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 216 / book p. 197

  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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