1820

One event is placed in Rock County: the birth of William C., son of a Rock County settler, on August 31. Regional events touching the wider upper Mississippi and Great Lakes country include the passage of an act reviving commissioners' powers to decide land claims at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien in Michigan Territory, the movement of a garrison from bottomlands along the St. Peter's to the west bank of the Mississippi, an expedition party traveling by canal and steamboat in May and later being becalmed near islands in Lake Erie in the fall, a meteorological register kept at Sandy Lake, and reports that the Winnebagoes had five villages on Winnebago Lake and fourteen on Rock River. Stephen Mack came from New England to the West, later stating he had lived with the Indians about sixteen years when found near Rockton, Illinois, in 1837. ↗ ↗ ↗ ↗ ↗ (+3 more)

Most dated entries for 1820 record births of individuals later connected to Rock County, occurring elsewhere in the United States and abroad: New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Ohio, Massachusetts, England, and Norway. Other national and world events include the taking of the 1820 census for Detroit, results later communicated by James D. Doty; the end of the reign of George III; a marriage at Chili, New York; the marriage of James Benson and Elizabeth (Powers) Benson; the move of Joseph Paisley from Greensboro, North Carolina, to a farm in Montgomery County, Illinois; the death of Adonijah Carter at Litchfield, Connecticut; and a writer later resident in Rock County commencing to write for the press in the Providence Gazette in articles against the then-pending Missouri Compromise. ↗ ↗ ↗ ↗ ↗ (+23 more)