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indictment against inhabitants of Green Bajy for fornication,
and two bills for adultery. I was a witness before the grand
jury in eighteen cases, and I was also one of the jury. When
my turn came, the foreman requested me to withdraw, when I
was hauled over the coals, but not finding any testimony against
me, I was left off. The court was, however, very lenient
towards those who had been indicted; the Judge informing
them that if they would get married within ten days, and
produce a certificate of the fact, they would not be fined.
They all complied with this requirement, except two, who
stood their trial. Their plea was, that they were legally
married, had lived a great many years with their wives, and
had large farnilics of children-that their marriages had been
solemnized according to the customs of the Indians. The
court took a different view of the legality of those marriages,
and fined those two men fifty dollars each and costs. We all
thought at the time that Judge Dory was rather hard in
breaking in rough shod, as he did, upon our arrangements; but
we had to submit, and make the best we could of the matter.
A short time before the first term of Judge DOTY'S court,
HENRY S. BAIRD came to Green Bay, and was appointed
Prosecuting Attorney by the Judge. RAIRD was the first
lawyer that ever located at Green Bay, and prosecuted all the
cases which came before the court at its first session, exc~pt
one-in which he was employed by the defendant, because, I
presume, he got better pay. In that case, the court in its
wisdom saw fit to appoint me as prosecutor; and I examined
the witnesses, and made so able a plea, that 1 beat BAIRD all
hnllow. When BAIHD settled at Green Bay, he brought his
wife with him from Mackinaw. About this time, Judge DUTY
brooght his wife to the*Bay, and I believe that his son
CHARLES DOTY was the first American male child born in what
is now Wisconsin. Mrs. BAIRD and Mrs. WHITNEY bad
children about this time.
P.
JOHN ARNDT and family came to the I3ay ahout this
time from Pennsylvania; he had three sons and two daugt~tc-rs.