Edward Shepard sold interests in certain tracts [of Wisconsin City] to Peter Cannon for $10,000.

The evidence

• “On July 7, 1836, Edward Shepard sold a one-twelfth interest in eighty-one of the 209 blocks in Wisconsin City to Maurice Wakeman for $6,666.54, and on the following day he sold another one-twelfth interest in the same blocks to Addison Dougherty for $6,666.66. On November 29, 1836, he sold interests in certain other tracts to Peter Cannon for $10,000. Many smaller sales were made before the boom came to an end, and then in 1845 parts of that city were sold for taxes, and under these sales and those of a few succeeding years, with some conveyances made by the proprietors and their grantees, and for very moderate prices, the various blocks in the pretentious city passed into farming lands, with here and there a limestone quarry; and where the six churches should be lifting their spires towards the sky, and the youth of the Rock River valley should be drinking from the founts of learning in the college, the academy and the three common schools, the farmer tills the soil and the quarryman blasts the rock with which we build out streets.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/04-forgotten-places.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 63 / book p. 53

  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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