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- [Footnote 2 from "Early Days
in Jefferson County" by Elisha W. KEYES]
- Timothy JOHNSON, the first white
settler in what is now the city of Watertown,
- was born at Middletown, Conn., June
28, 1792. After wandering through the east and south, he reached
Racine, Wisconsin, then composed of but a few shanties, in the
fall of 1835. In January, 1836, he was at Wisconsin City (now
Janesville), where, on the 18th day of November, 1835, John INMAN
and his party had made the first white settlement in what is
now Rock county. Going to Rockford, Illinois, for provisions,
JOHNSON returned to Wisconsin City in February, the same
month that Henry F. JANES made his claim there. Not satisfied
there, however, JOHNSON proceeded up the Rock river to
within about two miles below the present site of Jefferson, where
he built a log house, cleared a garden patch and "made short
excursions about the country."--Hist. Jefferson Co. (West.
Hist. Co., 1879), p. 401.
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- [The complete transcription (and
digital images) of this piece as well as Vol. 11 in its entirety
can be found at the Library
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