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the Yosts
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On the land and in Beloit
- 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
- 1836The emerging settlement combined American agricultural colonization with commercial use of Turtle Creek.The propertyGrade B · 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
- 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
- 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.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- December 1836Caleb Blodgett returned to the Turtle Creek site with his wife, sons Nelson and Daniel, and son-in-law John Hackett. The county history states that he bought Thibault’s claims on the east side of the Rock River, described as the “three looks,” for $200, and that Indians still on the west side helped him build a two-room log cabin near the east bank.The propertyPublished on the researcher's review
- 1837Caleb Blodgett erected a house of boards, the product of Goodhue's mill — the beginning of the Rock River house.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1837Blodgett purchased the Meeker claim and soon built a saw mill; the first importation was a distillery.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1837Dr. White bought of Blodgett four-twelfths of the claim in behalf of "The New England Company," paying three thousand dollars.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1837Goodhue bought of Blodgett a share of the claim for two thousand dollars; the 1856 history says three-twelfths and the 1879 history one-fourth — both readings are reported.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- Spring 1837Water was let into the mill race of the Blodgett–Goodhue saw mill.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- Spring 1837Thibault sold his twelve-by-sixteen log cabin to Messrs. Crane and Bicknell and removed with his family to Lake Koshkonong.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- April 15, 1837The first boards were sawed by the mill begun by Blodgett and completed with Goodhue.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1838The reminiscence's narrator took his first lessons raking and binding wheat in Caleb Blodgett's wheat field near Beloit during the harvest of 1838.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- Winter 1838Little was heard of the Thebault family at the foot of Lake Koshkonong until towards spring, and the absence of the head of the Thebault family was noted.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source
- December 30, 1838The First Congregational Church of Beloit was organized at a meeting in the Blodgett house.The propertyGrade A · 2 independent sources
- June 1, 1851The raceway bank above where the Blodgett Mills are broke, and the released water swept across the river and flooded the opposite side, causing considerable damage.The propertyGrade A · 1 independent source