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Fond du Lac County, is bounded on the north by Brown & Winnebago [and Calumet] Counties, on the east by Manitowoc & Sheboygan, on the south by Washington and Dodge [& Portage] and on the west by the Neenah river [Marquette]; or on the north by the [south] north line of town [seventeen] 16, west of Lake Winnebago and by the north [south] line [of the Indian Reservation] [Town 20], west of that lake; on the east by the line between ranges nineteen and twenty, south by the south line of town thirteen in ranges eighteen and nineteen, and by the south line of town fourteen west of those ranges, and on the west by the line between ranges thirteen and fourteen. It is thirty six miles long from east to west and twenty seven miles wide, and has an area of [eight] 7 hundred and [forty six] 54 square miles or sections. Fond du Lac county was established and set off from Brown county in 1836 and organized as a separate county in 1839. Its population in 1840 was 139, and in 1842-295. The county seat is Fond du Lac. The town system of government is adopted in this county, and it is at present divided into three

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