The Brothertown Indians at a town meeting held on April 6, 1824
voted “that a purchase shall be made of land at Green Bay.” The
Indians appointed to act for them were their Indian agent Thomas
Dean, William Dick, Rhodolphus Fowler, Paul Dick, Benjamin G.
Fowler, Thomas Dick, Randall Abner, John Johnson, Daniel Dick,
George Scippio, George Samson, and Samuel Scippio. Some of these
went to Green Bay with Thomas Dean where they bought a tract of
land from the Menomonee tribe. It was on the east bank of the
Fox River at Little Kaukaulin, or Little Rapids, for which they
paid $950 from their annuity. It was bounded on the north by
DePere, on the east by Lake Michigan, on the south by
Wrightstown and on the west by the Fox River. This was a tract
of land 8 miles wide and 30 miles long containing 153,600 acres.
None moved to their newly acquired land immediately, but by 1827
they began to make plans to migrate to Green Bay.