Excerpt from Reminiscences of Quincy, Illinois: Containing Historical Events, Anecdotes, Matters Concerning Old Settlers and Old Times, Etc The County of Madison, the present boundaries of which lie on the east side of the Illinois river, was organized by proclama mation of Gov. Edwards, March 14, 1812. The County em braced all the territory lying north of a line beginning on the Mississippi river, with the second township line above Cahokia, and running east to the Indiana territory - this boundary of Madison County thus embraced all the country north of its south line, and including the whole Military Tract as the same was afterwards surveyed. An act to form a new county on the Bounty Lands was ap proved Jan. 21, 1821. It defined the boundaries of Pike County as beginning at the mouth of the Illinois river and running thence up the middle of said river to the fork of the same, thence up the south fork of said river until it strikes the State line of Indiana, thence north with said line to the north boundary line of this State, thence west with said line to the west boundary line of this State and thence with said boundary line to the place of beginning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.