In the spring of 1837, the Jehu Chadwick family migrated from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, to Green County, Wisconsin, with many other eastern people who were seeking new locations in the west. It was a long and arduous trip the Chadwicks took, down the Ohio river by boat and up the Mississippi and Fever rivers to Galena, Illinois. From there they came overland by ox-team to Green County and on May 5 reached Jefferson township. They located on a tract of land that Jehu Chadwick had purchased from the federal government for $1.25 an acre the previous year when he had ridden on horseback to Wisconsin territory to seek a suitable farm in the new country. The presence of a large spring determined his choice of a tract three miles southwest of Juda and seven miles southeast of Monroe. This spring has never ceased flowing in the past one hundred years and its temperture is 48 degrees the year around.
There were six children in the Chadwick family when they reached Green county, the oldest 21 and the youngest 2. The family fortune of $2,600.00 in gold was brought along in a trunk. The sons James, Jotham, and John aided their parents in building a two room log house--quite a mansion in those days. It was the meeting place of the neighborhood for a number of years and the late Arabut Ludlow, Green County's pioneer peddler, stopped there frequently when the neighbors would gather to make their purchases of his wares.
The family lived on this farmsite until 1857 when they moved to Monroe, then a village, where Jehu passed away on August 19, 1866 and Polly on August 10, 1871.
In the spring of 1837, the Jehu Chadwick family migrated from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, to Green County, Wisconsin, with many other eastern people who were seeking new locations in the west. It was a long and arduous trip the Chadwicks took, down the Ohio river by boat and up the Mississippi and Fever rivers to Galena, Illinois. From there they came overland by ox-team to Green County and on May 5 reached Jefferson township. They located on a tract of land that Jehu Chadwick had purchased from the federal government for $1.25 an acre the previous year when he had ridden on horseback to Wisconsin territory to seek a suitable farm in the new country. The presence of a large spring determined his choice of a tract three miles southwest of Juda and seven miles southeast of Monroe. This spring has never ceased flowing in the past one hundred years and its temperture is 48 degrees the year around.
There were six children in the Chadwick family when they reached Green county, the oldest 21 and the youngest 2. The family fortune of $2,600.00 in gold was brought along in a trunk. The sons James, Jotham, and John aided their parents in building a two room log house--quite a mansion in those days. It was the meeting place of the neighborhood for a number of years and the late Arabut Ludlow, Green County's pioneer peddler, stopped there frequently when the neighbors would gather to make their purchases of his wares.
The family lived on this farmsite until 1857 when they moved to Monroe, then a village, where Jehu passed away on August 19, 1866 and Polly on August 10, 1871.
Family Members
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Abigail Chadwick Brown
1814–1853
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James Chadwick
1816–1846
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Mary Ann Chadwick
1818–1818
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Jotham Clark Chadwick
1820–1894
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John Monroe Chadwick
1822–1897
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Sarah Chadwick Miller
1826–1901
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Miranda Chadwick
1829–1835
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Elizabeth J Chadwick McNish
1832–1872
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Lydia Chadwick Newman
1835–1911
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Jehu Thomas Chadwick
1839–1843
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Amanda Louise Chadwick Patchin
1841–1907
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William Wood Chadwick
1843–1916
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