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Excerpt from A History of Hampton, Illinois, 1838-1938 After an elapse of two years, following the above land sales, John Mahoney (called Pat) it is said was hunting and trapping in these parts and viewed the beautiful area from the banks of the river or as others say, from a passing steam boat. Returning to Tazewell county, Ill., where there resided a number of pioneers from eastern states who were evidently impressed by 'pat's' report of this sec tion, at any rate they later invested and several of them settled here. 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.