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The town was inhabited by the Brothertown Indians, who moved there from the state of New York from 1831 to 1836. The town was created on March 21, 1843, as "Manchester". There is also record of this town being referred to by name in the early 1850s as Pequot The post office there in 1841 (when the area was still Wisconsin Territory) was called Pequot, and the Pequot post office name still appeared in the 1862 issue of the Wisconsin Blue Book; and "Sequoit". It was renamed "Brothertown" on May 4/May 5, 1857.

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