Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . ^x^ HADRACH BOND, ihe firstGovernor of Illinois after itsorganization a State, servingfrom 1818 to 1822, was born in.:j Frederick County, Maryland,^ ^ ?> tie year 1773, and wasraised a farmer 011 his fathersplantation, receiving a plainEnglish education. He emigratedto this State in 1794, when it was apart of the Northwest Territory,continuing in tlie 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 memb
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . ^x^ HADRACH BOND, ihe firstGovernor of Illinois after itsorganization a State, servingfrom 1818 to 1822, was born in.:j Frederick County, Maryland,^ ^ ?> tie year 1773, and wasraised a farmer 011 his fathersplantation, receiving a plainEnglish education. He emigratedto this State in 1794, when it was apart of the Northwest Territory,continuing in tlie 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 1S12-14 he was a Delegate to the Twelfthand Thirteenth Congresses, taking his seat Dec. 3,1812, and serving until Oct. 3, 1814. These wereihe times, the reader will recollect, when this Gov-ernment had its last struggle with Great year 181213 also noted in the history of thisState as that in which the first Territorial Legislaturewas held. It convened at
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