Clinton held its first town meeting at the house of Charles Tuttle; fifty-nine votes were cast.

The evidence

• “The First Town Meeting was held at the home of Charles Tuttle on April 5, 1842. The number of votes cast was fifty-nine.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 138 / book p. 647

  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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