News: 1844 Jun 6-Wisconsin Territory

Transcriber: Janet

 

Surnames: Doty, Hudson, Lapham

 

....Source: Lancaster, Wisconsin Territory, 8 Jun 1844, Buffalo Gazette, Wisconsin state Historical Society

 

GRANT BOUNTY HERALD. Lancaster, W. T. Saturday, June 8, 1844 Wisconsin. —This Territory, whose people are agitating the question of admission into the family of Uncle  Sam, came into the possession of the United States in ISI6, and remained under a kind of Military sway till 1823, when the counties of Mackinack, Brown and Crawford, were set off as a Judicial District, and a Court held at Green Bay in that year. In 1830, the county of Brown including the U. S. troops, contained a population of 1575 and the whole Territory about 3000 'whites. On the first of the present month, the population is estimated at over 90,000, and that in two years from this, or about the time the territory will become a State, it will contain at least 130,000 souls. There are 24 counties in the Territory cover, an area of 90,,000 square miles.—[Buffalo Gazette]

 

Map of Wiskonsan, 1844 / by Charles Doty and Francis Hudson.
Map Creator Doty, Charles, 1824-1918.


This manuscript map from 1844 attempts to show the state just a dozen years after Native Americans had ceded it to the U.S.

It includes many local or Indian names for lakes and waterways, as well as naming early communities of white settlers.

One of its creators, 20-year-old Charles Doty (1824-1919), was secretary to his father, Territorial Governor James Duane Doty,

at the time it was drawn, and it may have been used in the territorial capitol. It came to the Society in the papers of cartographer

and scientist Increase Lapham, following his death in 1875.

 

1844. The Wisconsin Phalanx, a Utopian commune organized on Fourierist principles promoted at Kenosha by Warren Chase, settled

at Ceresco, now Ripon. Doty was removed from the governorship of the Territory, and Nathaniel P. Talmadge appointed his successor.

The first Episcopal diocese of the Catholic church was erected at Milwaukee.

 

 


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