W. DeLoss Love, Ph.D.  "SAMSON OCCOM and THE CHRISTIAN INDIANS OF 
NEW ENGLAND"
The Pilgrim Press  Chicago
Published in 1899

    The Indians began at once in 1827 to disposs of their lots.  All
matters relating to their emigration were placed in the hands of a
committee chosen annually, and the affair was conducted with discretion.
Probably no Indian tribe of North America ever emigrated under more
favorable circumstances.  They had acquired experience and knowledge
of government.  They had the means necessary for a good start in a new
country.  Some of them were well-to-do.  The distance was great and they
could not transport all their household effects.  Fortunately, however,
they had a waterway in the Erie canal from Utica to Buffalo and thence
they could conveniently reach Green Bay by the great lakes.
     The company of 1831 was composed of nearly forty persons, chiefly 
the large families of William and Elkanah Dick and Randall Abner.  Thomas
Commuck and his wife Hannah, Isaac Scippo and David Johnson also went in
this party.  Of these the following were living in 1895:  Barbara Dick,
Delila Dick Brusil, Hannah Abner Commuck, Rebecca Abner Johnson, and
Elias and David Dick.  They made their settlement at Kaukauna on the Fox 
River, and built their log houses.  The land was no the best adapted to
farming and they did not intend to stay there.  The treaty which gave
them a township further south on the east shore of Winnebago Lake was
then pending and was ratified the following year.  Hence, they had not
long to remain, and they moved to their final location in 1832 and 1833.
In 1832 a larger company reached the new settlement, consisting of forty-
four persons, as nearly as can now be ascertained.  These included the
families of Alexander, Daniel and Thomas Dick, William Johnson, Simeon
and John Adams, Ezekiel Wiggins, Abraham Skeesuck, Nathan Paul and John
Seketer, besides several men, Jeremiah Johnson, George Skeesuck, Charles
Seketer and James Wauby.  By the town records they were expecting to start
on the twenty-fifth of June.  They probably set out about that time, as they
were four weeks going from Buffalo to Green Bay and arrived there early in
August.  The vessel in which the lake voyage was made was THE PRESIDENT.
     Another party went in 1834, in which were Elder Thomas Dick and his
wife Debora, Patience Fowler, the widow of James, and her children, widow
Hannah Dick, James Niles, Jesse Corcomb, Isaac Wauby, Emanuel Johnson,
Joseph Palmer and such families as they had.  They made the voyage in a
schooner named THE NAVIGATOR.  In 1835 there went James Simons, Samuel
Skeesuck, Alonzo D. Dick and his family and Solomon Paul.  They went in the 
steamboat UNITED STATES.  One of the largest companies went in 1836, in 
which were Rhodolphus Fowler and his children, Simeon Hart, Lothrop Dick,
William Crosley, John Johnson, Ira Hammer, David Wiggins, George Scippio,
John Matthews, Henry Fowler and Erastus Fowler, some of them with families.
Some of these met a tragic death by the capsizing of a boat on the Fox 
River, where six men were drowned.  After this they went in smaller parties
as they conveniently could, including widows Esther Sampson and Amy
Johnson, Charles Anthony, Henry Skeesuck, Hezekiah Fowler, John Wauby,
Rowland Johnson, Isaac Dick, Alexander Fowler, Laton Dick and Thomas Hammer.
Elder Benjamin G. Fowler went in 1846, most of his flock having preceded
him.  Thus most of the tribe were reunited in their new home.