The chronology
The land through time
Every documented event, from the property outward: Beloit, Rock County, the region and the world. Each one links to the page of the source that records it. The record so far covers 1820–1864; more years are being added.
1830
Beloit
- January 13, 1830 E. Wilson was born; the passage notes he was later living in Turtle.
Rock County
The region
- Spring 1830 Black Hawk and his band, returning from an unsuccessful winter's hunt, found their town demolished and the site ploughed up; the passage states that during the preceding winter, squatters after seven years of illegal occupancy had preempted several quarter sections at the mouth of the Rock covering the village site and the Sac corn fields.
- 1830 Farmer's "Map of the Territories of Michigan and Ouisconsin" was published; it gave the river draining the four lakes as the "Goosh-ke-hawn," noted Lake Koshkonong ("the lake we live on"), and marked a Winnebago village at the mouth of that river.
- 1830 A party of Menomonees and Sioux murdered some of the British band of Sacs; the passage states that in 1831 Black Hawk's war party retaliated by killing twenty-seven Menomonees near Fort Crawford.
- 1830 The Sacs and Foxes ceded to the United States a strip of land twenty miles wide from the Mississippi to the Des Moines, on the north side of their territory.
Nation and world
- May 29, 1830 An act of Congress concerning pre-emption of public lands was approved on May 29, 1830. The two passages describe it differently: one dates it only to 1830 and calls it the "pre-emption law of 1830," intended for the benefit of actual settlers against non-resident purchasers; the other describes it as specially designed to prevent speculation in village lots and as prohibiting pre-emption of public lands for any purpose other than farming.
- Summer 1830 A report recorded 154 cases of fever in the third quarter of 1830; the same quarter of 1836, with greater strength, afforded one case.
- January 1830 John Poole commenced the hotel business in Johnstown, carrying it on successfully for sixteen years.