Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Wisconsin's First Deed


Dominique Ducharme first known white settler at Kaukauna.  In Wisconsin's first recorded Deed for Land in 1793, he obtained 1281 acres of land from several Indian tribes for 2 barrels of rum and other gifts.  This is now in the City of Kaukauna.  Today this original deed is on record in Brown County--Volume B of Deeds, Page 110.  Recorded Dec. 18, 1828.

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