The family that left New York May 31 arrived in Yorkville, Racine county.

The evidence

• “They started from Genesee county. New York, for Wisconsin, ]\Iay 31, 1843; arrived in Yorkville, Racine county, June 27. On their journey they rode over the "corduroy road" built over the Maumee swamp a distance of thirty miles, afterwards crossing the Maumee river in a ferry boat, from thence riding five miles farther over log ways where the logs would roll under the horses' feet.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/19-pioneer-women.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 498 / book p. 462

  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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