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colonization
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On the land and in Beloit
- 18231823 (about; the passage gives "about 1823 or 182J") — Thiebault, a French-Canadian trader, made his home at what is now Beloit.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1824Thiebault, a Frenchman, established himself at the Turtle village, probably about this year.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1826The subject of P56 commenced the study of law in the office of S. G.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1829The father of Captain John P. Houston built a bridge and made that his business.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- January 13, 1830E. Wilson was born; the passage notes he was later living in Turtle.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1831Death of the father of a future Magnolia Township landowner.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- Summer 1832Pierce Wallihan commenced business for himself and married Miss Lucy Flower (marriage year only).BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- November 18, 1833Survey contracts (including George W. Harrison's surveys of subdivisions) were dated November 18, 1833.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1834Thiebault's cabin at the Turtle village was noted in the plat of the Government survey of the township.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1835William Yost came to Wisconsin and purchased a tract of land in sections 11 and 12, Beloit township.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1835Caleb Blodgett made his first visit to the Beloit site, found the Frenchman Thiebeau there, and quieted his claim for $250; one passage dates the purchase to 1835 and '6, and Blodgett is described as temporarily located with his family in a log cabin at Meacham's in 1835.The propertyGrade A · 2 independent sources
- 1835Thiebault claimed ownership of a vast tract of land extending "three looks" in every direction from his cabin.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- July 1835Joseph Thibault came to the Beloit site and built the first building there, a log cabin.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- July 19, 1835John Inman and William Holmes visited the present site of Beloit, finding no human habitation there.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- December 26, 1835A survey contract was made with Robert T. Lytle for subdivisions west of the river.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1836Black Hawk and his braves forded the Catfish River on the site of what is now the village of Indian Ford.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1836The emerging settlement combined American agricultural colonization with commercial use of Turtle Creek.The propertyGrade B · 1 independent source
- 1836Meacham came to Beloit, looking for a more expanded field of effort.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1836Turtle was settled by Wm. Smith, Horace Rice and Hudson Case, who by mutual agreement claimed Cross's Grove.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- March 1836Robert A. Kinzie purchased at government entry all the lands within the limits of the town of Kushkanong.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- March 9, 1836Judge William Holmes and family arrived in the Rock River valley; they stopped at Thibault's cabin at Beloit — the first recorded visit of white women.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- Spring 1836The first land in the Rock/Fulton area was broken and cropped with buckwheat by John Inman, producing a fair yield.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- May 1836Caleb Blodgett came exploring the site of present Beloit and returned in June; he found Thibault living there with two wives.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- June 1836Blodgett 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.The propertyPublished on the researcher's review
- Summer 1836Dr. Heath located and built on the south side of the river, opposite Wisconsin City.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- September 9, 1836Governor Dodge issued a proclamation apportioning council and house members among the counties, directing an election for the second Monday of October and requiring members to convene at Belmont on October 25.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- Fall 1836Erastus Giles came from Roscoe, Illinois, to Rock County and helped raise the first house put up in Beloit; he is registered as settling in Turtle in October 1836.BeloitGrade A · 2 independent sources
- October 5, 1836Levi St. John arrived with his family at Rock River and went into a log house with his brother.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- December 1836Caleb Blodgett returned to Beloit accompanied by his wife Phoebe Kidder, sons Nelson and Daniel, son-in-law John Hackett, and daughter-in-law Mahaila Norris with her son; the Blodgett house was finished and occupied. One passage dates Blodgett's $200 purchase of Thibault's claim to December 1836, while another places that purchase early in 1836.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
Around it
- August 31, 1820William C. (son of a Rock County settler) was born.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1827Henry Magee (father of a Janesville-area farmer) was born.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- February 24, 1827Rosina was born; she later died in Rock County, June 14, 1856.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1830Meader and Lydia (Stevens) Perrigo, natives of Vermont married in 1828, removed to New York; they later located in Fulton township, Rock county, in 1866.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1830Warner, a future Janesville farmer, married Miss Lucinda Snow.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1830A future Center Township resident married Miss Sarah Hartzel.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- April 8, 1832A Rock County settler married Miss Annie, daughter of Daniel and Becky Carhart, of Albany Co., N. Y.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- Summer 1832The summer of 1832 saw the gathering of Indian "hordes," painted and plumed and at war with the whites, within the limits of the territory afterward included in Rock County, during June and July.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- October 11, 1832A Rock County settler married Miss Mary, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Hawkins, of New York.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1833All of the portion lying southwest of Sugar river (Avon area) was surveyed by the general government during the year 1833.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- Summer 1833The United States began the surveys of this part of Rock county; the portion of the town of Janesville west of the river was surveyed first.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- Summer 1833Town lines were run by surveyors Mullett and Brink in the third quarter of 1833.Rock CountyGrade A · 2 independent sources
- July 9, 1833Survey contracts of M. T. Williams, dated July 9, 1833, were made for survey work in the county (township lines and subdivisions).Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- November 23, 1833A child was born in New York who died at Milton, Wis., Sept. 3, 1853.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1834Government Surveyors noted eight mounds on the west shore of Lake Koshkonong.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- Winter 1834The residue of what became Rock County (the portion not southwest of Sugar River) was surveyed by the General Government in the first quarter of 1834.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- January 1834Marriage, in Scipio Township, to Phoebe Ann Tompkins.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1835D. Butts broke the first sod in Rock County, in Fulton Township.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source