BlockNauvoo Township (part 4 of 4)
Part 4 of 4 of the account of this township in History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws, published 1880. 71 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter, on this part. Each one jumps to where it begins.
Parts
4 pagesThe source prints this as one continuous account. It is split here so no single page grows too heavy to load; the text runs straight on across the parts and nothing is omitted.
The chapter
71 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws, published 1880. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
History Of Hancock Codntv
the French, and named Johnson, that fort was erected during our war with Great Britain, by our own soldiery and by command of our own Government, in 1814; and that Fort Edwards was also built and, occupied the same year, after the destruction of the former, and named after the Governor of Illinois Territory; and that Capt. Zachary Taylor, afterward President of the United States, was the builder of them both.
Provenance
Text from History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws, published 1880, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.