SALE OF THE RESERVATION.

over it and the Mansur family moved into the wheel, where they
resided for three weeks, during which time their daughter Es-
ther was born to Mrs. Mansur, July 17. The attempt to draw
the boat over the rapids failed. Mr. Mansur and Captain Hota-
ling made a trip around Lake Winnebago and met Mr. Reed at
Winnebago Rapids, who prevailed on Mr. Mansur to locate
there. A durham boat was obtained from Mr. Reed, and the
Mansur family arrived in Winnebago Rapids August 9, 1843.
Mr. Mansur set to work to repair the old mills, and managed
them until the spring of 1844. Mr. Stephen Hartwell came in
1844 to run the grist mill, and at the same time one Johnson or
Jensen, a Dane, made a claim on lands afterward owned by Mr.
Brien, in Sherrytown. He was mail carrier between Fond du
Lac and Wrightstown.  The post office was established in
Winnebago Rapids, March 14, 1844, and Harrison Reed was ap-
pointed postmaster.  In the summer of 1845 Mr. Gorham P.
Vining, from Lowell, Massachusetts, arrived at Watertown and
met Mr. George Harlow, and together they walked to Fond du
Lac. Vining did not like the level country, and exclaimed that
he "was bound to find some place where water ran down
hill." He was advised to go to Winnebago Rapids. The means
of travel was quite limited. The little steamer 'Manchester,'
built under direction of Captain Peter Hotaling, the previous
season by Stockbridge Indians, lay at the water edge, and Vin-
ing offered the man in charge $25 in gold to take him over to
Winnebago Rapids; but in the absence of the Captain, he did
note get the boat. They finally embarked in a large skiff. The
first night out they camped near Stockbridge.  Embarking
again the next morning they crossed the lake, and landed at
the residence of Harrison Reed on the lake shore at the end of
the present Wisconsin street. Here they met Governor James
Duane Doty, who with Mr. Reed piloted the visitors around the
village. They were pleased with the prospects and returned to
Watertown, where they procured provisions for the winter and
came back to Winnebago Rapids overland with an ox team. They
set up bohemian quarters for the winter in the log house at the
grist mill.  Leasing the grist and sawmills they ran them
during the winter. This was the only flour mill in the county,
and the only one for many miles that could run in the winter,
and grists came to the mill from many miles away, as far north
as Green Bay, from Stockbridge, and from beyond Oshkosh.
It was not an uncommon sight to have 100 different grists in

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