Births of persons later connected with Rock County, with the year only documented: Elizabeth B. Leaver (Bridgewater, Somersetshire, Eng.) ; a man born in Hanover, Germany ; a man born in Montgomery County, N. Y. ; a man born in Woodstock, Vt. ; Michael Mitchell (County Kings, Ireland) ; a man born in Ohio ; two men born in England ; a man born in Norway ; a man born in New York (Orford) ; a man born in England (Brodhead) ; a man born in New York (Fairfield) ; Captain William Henry Brown (Natick, Mass.)

The evidence

• “Married Elizabeth B. Leaver in 1853 ; she was born in Bridgewater, Somersetshire, Eng., in 1834; they have one child, Henry J., born in February, 1854; he now has charge of a large mill in Kansas. Mr.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/17-bios-janesville.md, PDF p. 712 / book p. 716

  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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• “The twelfth child of Benjamin's older brother, Joseph, of Saxonville (1793-1882), Captain William Henry Brown, of Natick, Mass. (born 1834, who”

  1908-brown-rock-county/06-history-of-beloit.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 163 / book p. 147

  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.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources