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Summer 1837

Latter part of Summer 1837 – The Meeks family and the Connecticut settlers both commenced cutting hay on the bottoms north of the stream (Turtle/Shopiere)

Meanwhile, closer to home

BeloitSummer 1837Season

The Beloit settlement filled up rapidly as the New England Company sent new settlers

BeloitJuly 1837Month

Alfred Field arrived with oxen and flour, relieving the settlers' distress

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Rock CountySummer 1837

Latter part of Summer 1837 – The Meeks family and the Connecticut settlers both commenced cutting hay on the bottoms north of the stream (Turtle/Shopiere)

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The reader can readily imagine the consequences resulting from the proximity of two such settlements and of such contrasting characters. The Meekers soon dubbed the Conn. people with two quaint sobriquets—" Pussy " and "Whale,"—the former from the fact that they brought in a lot of cats and gold to the settlers; and the other from the fact that some of them had been engaged in a whale fishery, and were great at "spinning yarns." Things went on without any open rupture until the latter part of the summer of 1837, when both parties commenced cutting hay on the bottoms on the north side of the stream. The yankees proving to he the smartest workers, were like to monopolize all the hay, and thus rob old Brindle—the only stuck possessed by the Meekers—of her rights, and subject her toa winter of browsing.

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.PDF p. 146 / book p. 130

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Summer 1837

Latter part of Summer 1837 – The Meeks family and the Connecticut settlers both commenced cutting hay on the bottoms north of the stream (Turtle/Shopiere)

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Rock CountySummer 1837

Latter part of Summer 1837 – The Meeks family and the Connecticut settlers both commenced cutting hay on the bottoms north of the stream (Turtle/Shopiere)

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The reader can readily imagine the consequences resulting from the proximity of two such settlements and of such contrasting characters. The Meekers soon dubbed the Conn. people with two quaint sobriquets—" Pussy " and "Whale,"—the former from the fact that they brought in a lot of cats and gold to the settlers; and the other from the fact that some of them had been engaged in a whale fishery, and were great at "spinning yarns." Things went on without any open rupture until the latter part of the summer of 1837, when both parties commenced cutting hay on the bottoms on the north side of the stream. The yankees proving to he the smartest workers, were like to monopolize all the hay, and thus rob old Brindle—the only stuck possessed by the Meekers—of her rights, and subject her toa winter of browsing.