The lands within the town (on Rock prairie) were mostly taken up and settled by emigrants from New England and New York.

The evidence

• “The same season came in John N. Smith, James Helms, Abraham Caufman, and others, The next summer, 1846, the lands within the town were mostly taken up and settled by emigrants from New England and New York. And here let me remark, to the honor of the inhabitants of this town, and to the instruetions of their forrfathers, that there has never been sold any ardent spirits, lawfully, within the town; and not a dollar has been expended by the town for the support of papers.”

  1856-history-of-rock-county/08-center.md, PDF p. 96 / book p. 78

  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