A Beloit settler went back to Jefferson Co., N. Y.

The evidence

• “Beloit; born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., April 26,1807; in 1837, he went to Maumee, Ohio; remained there one year, then went to Chicago and worked on the Illinois Canal ; in 1839, he came to Beloit to look at land, then returned to Ohio, and, in 1841, went back to Jefferson Co., N. Y., where he remained one year sick ; in 1842, he came to Rock Co., and bought 560 acres land in Rock Township, in partnership with his brothers William and Charles Walker ; he resided there till 1864, and then came to Beloit and bought eighty acres land in Section 3, Beloit Township, and also thirty acres in Plymouth; there was a stone house partly built on the eightyacre lot which he finished and now occupies ; he and his brother improved and broke all the land from the woods to his south line.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/18-bios-beloit.md, PDF p. 765 / book p. 769

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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