…as I prepare my March 9th Civil War presentation for the Cedarburg History Museum, try to sort out the full story of Mequon-Thiensville’s earliest settlers and landowners (including first postmaster John Weston), and look through a bushel of fresh sources in our ongoing search for Jonathan Clark’s kin who hail, we think, from somewhere up around where Derby, Vermont meets Stanstead, Québec.

The Clark House Historian and his crack research team, searching for answers in the written record…¹

As you can see, I’ve got work to do in order to dig out from under—and make sense of—the big pile of historical documents that I’ve accumulated over the past several weeks.

So no new CHH post today, but I’ll be back soon with more Clark House history.

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1. Okay, that’s not really me, and I don’t have a crack research team. But a historian can dream, eh?
   
   Anyway this is actually a photo from the collection of the Library of Congress, titled “Counting Mayfield ballot, 2/20/24.” And no, I had no idea what the 1924 “Mayfield ballot” was, but the good folks that run the U.S. Senate website have a fine explanation, here.