Caleb Blodgett, the first white settler at Beloit, died.

The evidence

• “His grandfather, Caleb Blodgett, the first white settler at Beloit, was born near Randolph, Vt., April 17, 1789. He married Chloe Kidder on December 25, 1807, and died August 7, 1840. He was a descendant of Thomas Blodgett and wife Susan, who embarked in the "Increase" from London April 18, 1635, settling in Cambridge, Mass., as members of "Rev.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 432 / book p. 923

  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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