Rock County, Wisconsin - Chapter 5, 1908

Norse period. Spanish. French. English. Colonial period. Roanoke island and tobacco. James river, 1607. Virginia. Massachusetts' claim to this region, 79. Mayflower compact. Descendants in Eock County. Connecticut settlements. The unique

Stonington record. SettJers on the Ohio. George "Washington makes and loses Fort Necessity. Fort Duquesne. Braddock's defeat. Charles De Langlade. Wisconsin a part of Quebec. The revolution begun. George Eogers Clarke secures Illinois. His biography. The sovereignty of Virginia northwest of the Ohio. The war of revolution ended in 1783. Patrick Henry.

Territorial Period. - The northwest territory. Ordinance of 1787. First settlers in Ohio at Marietta, 1788. Election of representatives to a general assembly, 1798. Knox county embraced Wisconsin. Laws passed. Provision as to new states. Indiana territorj% formed in 1800, includes Wisconsin. Governor Harrison. The territory of Michigan formed, 1805. Territory of Illinois, 1809, covers Wisconsin. Gov. Ninian Edwards. Nathaniel Pope. Hull's surrender of Detroit, 1812. Capture of Prairie du Chien by the British, 1814. State of Illinois, 1818. Change of north boundary, 108. Three counties formed west of Lake Michigan, Michilimackinae, Crawford and Brown; the latter includes this region. The Black Hawk episode. 111. Distinguished men connected with it, 113. 1834. Milwaukee county formed, including this region, 114. N. Wis. given to Michigan. Lewis Cass, 116. Territory of Wis., 1836. General Dodge, governor. Census. Population of Milwaukee county. Dec. 3, 1836, Madison the capital. Dec. 7, 1836, Eock county formed. Dec. 7, 1837. Town of Eock equals the county. Territory of Wisconsin limited. Feb. 13, 1839, Eock county organized. State constitutional convention, 1846, at Madison. Delegates from Bock county. Constitution adopted, 1848. Governor Henry Dodge. The twenty towns. High rank of Eock county, 126.

Indians, Stephen Mack, Thibault. Caswell's account of him. 1832, first recorded visit of white men. The Inmans, 1835. First visit of white women, 1836. This region a natural paradise. 1836, Caleb Blodgett, Hackett, Goodhue. Saw mill, 1837. Dam on Turtle creek. The race. Horace White's account. Beginnings of Beloit. The New England company. 1837, Dr. White, O. P. Bicknell, E. P. Crane's diary, .$2,500 paid. Blodgett 's double log house. Old account book. First bridge over the turtle. Alfred Field 's arrival. Hardships of travel. Mrs. Crane carries infant Ellery, 138. Settlers from Colebrook and Bedford, N. H. The Eock Eiver house. The self-acting ferry. Adventure of little Horace White. Webster Moore lost. The names Turtle, New Albany, Beloit, 141. 1836, Eock county. Names of early settlers. Crosby's cabin. Aug. 13, 1837, first public religious service, led by Horace Hobart. Settlers of 1838. Dr. D. K. Pearson's story of the Cheney girls, 143. 1839, Hopkins' survey based on Kelson's. 1840, Eev. D. Clary, Benjamin Brown and wife, their Puritan ancestry. Family record. The Fiskes. First brick yard. Brown's store. No spectacles in Eockford or Freeport. Beloit supplied. H. Burchard. Hon. Horatio C.

side of river, 1843, Hackett. David Merrill's account of early days, 150. Central bridge, 1842. Second house, west side, 1844. Steamboat up the Eock, 1844. First things in Beloit. Kelson's , survey, 1837. First locomotive, 1853. Growth of the village. Incorporated, 1846. First village officers. Census of 1846. The old stone church. Difficulties about land titles, 157. L'aw suits, Gardner vs. Tisdale, Dillingham vs. Fisher. Judge E. V. Whiton.

Abraham Lincoln. Eufus Choate. Daniel Cady. Beloit journalism. Census 1848 and 1855. The city incorporated 1856. Goodhue family. First mayor. Second mayor, Waterman. State street fifty-five years ago. First police justice, A. Taggart. Paper making begun. Early manufactures, . mills, schools. The Archaean Society. Some of its famous members. Beginnings of churches, secret societies. Fire department. Postal facilities. Beloit in war time. Memorial Hall. Memorial Day, 1879. Beloit 36 years ago by Dow. The Tornado of 1883. Other disasters. Railroad bonds. Additions. South Beloit. Latest improvements. Biography of Wm. B. Strong, 192-195.