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I would like to know more about this Thomas England, especially the years before he came to Illinois. Any information is appreciated. --Regina
"...Thomas England, born in Pennsylvania in 1775, where he married and then moved to Tennessee, and there reared a part of his family before he moved to Kentucky. He farmed in both States. His family was as follows: John, born in 1798; Margaret, born in 1800; David, born in 1801; Jane, born in 1803; Matthew, born in 1804; Joel W., born in 1806; Dame, born in 1807; Mary, born in 1810; Thomas J., born in 1812 was a soldier of the Black Hawk War; Elizabeth, born in 1813, and two who died in infancy.
In 1819 Thomas England, the elder, moved his family to Lawrence County [Illinois] and settled in Dennison Township, where he bought fifty-five acres of land from a man by the name of Warden. He cleared off a part of this land, built on it a log house, in which the family lived for a time. In 1844 he went to Georgia with some of his children , but later returned to Lawrence County, where he died southeast of Billett, when ninety years old. In politics he was a Democrat."
From "Combined history of Edwards, Lawrence and Wabash Counties, Illinois : with illustrations descriptive of their scenery and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers." (Philadelphia: J.L. McDonough & Co., 1883) Page 674
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