Blodgett returned to the Turtle Creek site and, according to the same county history, spent the summer and fall of 1836 breaking land for a farm and preparing for his family.

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• “g over the events of his earlier manhood, struggles in the then wilds of western New York and Ohio with successes and discouragements and final disaster in the loss by fire of the accumulations of years, we find him in 1835 temporarily located with his family in a log cabin at Meacham's Grove, twenty-five miles northwest of Chicago, near another of our pioneer families, that of Chauncey Tuttle. The prospects there proving unsatisfactory, in May, 1836, Mr. Blodgett came to the site of the present city of Beloit exploring, attracted by its many natural advantages returned again in June, and spen”

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