![]() Many have claimed to be the first settlers here, but there is but little to substantiate the claim, and we shall therefore only name those as first settlers who came here and remained permanently or at least for several years. The precise date when it was permanently settled is somewhat in doubt. The abundance of water and timber with natural pasturage and its proximity to the great lakes, was a splendid inducement to its occupation by them, and it was with the greatest reluctance that they turned their backs upon its broad prairies and fertile meadows, and started toward the setting sun. This county was formerly a famous hunting ground of the Indians. Blackburn, the whole work amounting to $2,700. Brandon and Andrew Borland and the woodwork to Thomas H. The county commissioners awarded the contract for the stone work for a court house and jail to Charles W. ![]() It was designated in the act that the county seat should be at Joliet, and that the county buildings should be erected on the public square, adjoining section 15, town 35, range 10 east, which act was fully complied with the year following, by erecting the buildings as required. It included at that time the present county of Kankakee, but that county was set off by itself in 1845. The county was formerly a part of Cook county, but by an act of the Legislature of January 12, 1836, it was formed into the county of Will. ![]() And as section is a square mile, there are seven hundred and fifty six square miles in the county, or 483,840 acres. Reed has eighteen sections, Wesley twenty-six, and Custer twenty-eight sections. ![]() Will county extends from the Indiana state line on the east to Grundy and Kendall counties on the west, and from Kankakee county on the south to Cook on the north, and contains twenty-four townships, nineteen of which are full townships of thirty-six sections each two townships, Crete and Washington, have more than that number of sections, as each contains forty-five sections, and three townships that have less sections in number. ![]()
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