The first civil office in the town of Center (now Plymouth) was filled by appointment from the Governor and Council.

The evidence

• “I speak of them because the saucy rascals have more than once taken my fat pigs from my door,and were unwilling to give them up even, when followed up in bot pursuit. The first civil office in the town of Center, (or that part of old Center now called Plymouth, for in those days we had no town government) was held by appointment from the Governor and Council in winter of 1841-2; the incumbent was the writer. The winter of 1842- 483 was extremely severe, The first snow fell on the night of the eighth of November, and continued until: the 7th of April, a period of five months with uninterrupted good sleighing.”

  1856-history-of-rock-county/18-plymouth.md, PDF p. 137 / book p. 119

  Guernsey, Orrin, and Josiah F. Willard, editors. History of Rock County, and Transactions of the Rock County Agricultural Society and Mechanics' Institute. Janesville, Wis.: William M. Doty & Brother, 1856. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871593.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources

  

• “" The first civil ofiice in the town of Center (that is, that part of Old Center, now [1856] called Plymouth) was filled by the writer. He held his appointment from the Governor and Council in the winter of 1841-42. The next winter was extremely severe.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/13-rock-county-ch07-town-histories.md, PDF p. 516 / book p. 520

  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.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources · may repeat 1856-history-of-rock-county, so not counted as independent