As near as I can figure none of our English Southern family ever went into Wisconsin. They only 'Southern Putman' was John Jacob Putman from the Hampshire County family, and that family is German.
The bulk of the people here in Wisconsin moved straight westward out of New England and New York, and a few came down from eastern Canada. Several English families from New York and Vermont came here early on, as did a few of the Dutch Putman families from New York.