Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . E^KS^-K!®^®^. jlP^HADRACH BOND, the firstGovernor of Illinois after itsorganization as a State, servingfrom 1818 to 1822, was bom inFrederick County, Maryland,in the year r773, and wasraised a farmer on liis fathersplantation, receiving only a plainEnglish education. He emigratedto this State in 1794, when it was apart of the Northwest Territory,continuing
Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . E^KS^-K!®^®^. jlP^HADRACH BOND, the firstGovernor of Illinois after itsorganization as a State, servingfrom 1818 to 1822, was bom inFrederick County, Maryland,in the year r773, and wasraised a farmer on liis fathersplantation, receiving only a plainEnglish education. He emigratedto this State in 1794, when it was apart of the Northwest Territory,continuing in the vocation in whichhe had been brought up in his nativeState, in the New Design, nearEagle Creek, in what is now MonroeCounty. He served several terms asa member of the General Assemblyof Indiana Territory, after it was organized as such,and in 1812-14 he was a Delegate to the Twelfthand Thirteenth Congresses, taking his seat Dec. 3,1812, and serving until Oct. 3, (814. These werethe times, the reader will recollect, when this Gov-ernment had its last struggle with Great year 1812 is also noted in the history of thisState as that in which the first Territorial Legislaturewas held. It convened at Kaskaskia, Nov. 25, andadjourned D
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