sentences:  By 1850, census records show the Alt, Dings, Hornbaker, Pedrick, Swartz, Wilcox families in the area.Of these, only the Pedrick and Wilcox families appear in Jefferson in the 1840 census, but a section is missing that includes the name of one family.In 1861, Peter Alt sold his property to Joseph and Esther Ellis Mead and moved to Wisconsin.