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198 WISCONSIN H[STORI(:AL COLLECTIONS.
Brown county was first organized by a proclamation issued
by the Hon. LEWIS CASS, the present Secretary of State of
the United States, then Governor of Michigan Territory, dated
26th of October, 1818, with the following boundaries: North
and east by the present State line of Michigan; south by the
States of Indiana and Illinois; and west by a line drawn due
north from the northern boundary of the State of Illinois,
through the middle of the portage between the Pox and the
Wisconsin Rivers, to the Michigan line, and embracing all of
the present counties of Iienosha, Racine, Milwnukee, Ozau-
kee, Sheboygan. Manitowoc, Kewaunee, Door, Walworth,
Waukesha, Washington, Fond (3u Lac, Calumet, Outagamie,
Shawano, Oconto, Winnebago, Dodge, Jefferson, Rock, Colum-
bia, Marquetke, Waushara, Waupacca, Brown proper, and parts
of Dane and Green.
The hiskory of Brown County up to 1830 is, in fact, the
history of Green Bay, for until about that period there was no
other white setklement within its limits. I do not, of course,
now allude to the present City of Green Bay, as it was not
founded until some years after I became a resident of Wis-
consin.
In the month of July, 1824,I first landed upon the shores
of the Fox river. In September following, I came with my
wife from Mackinaw, having resided at the latter place for two
years previously. My knowledge of the early history of the
State commenced at that period, and has continued uninter-
rupted until the present time. I have ever since my first arri-
val continued a resident here, and with no desire to arrogate to
myself any particular merit, may, I think, be permitted to say
that I have been, to some extent, identified with the history of
the country. Through all the vicissitudes and alternations
connected with her history, I have (with a few other of her pio-
neers) remained a firm believer in her future prosperity. Ever
true to her interest, I have disregarded the advice of friends to
change my residence, with a view to bettering my condition,
and treated with contempt the sneers and scoffs of those who