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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881





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AMOS BATTERTON was born May 3, 1772, in Loudon county, Virginia. Nancy Guthrie was born about 1776, in North Carolina, and her parents moved, when she was a child, to Madison county, Kentucky. They were married and had one child, who was drowned in Kentucky river. They moved to Adair county and then from there to Rock creek, in what is now Menard county, in 1820, thence to what is now Salisbury township, Sangamon county, in the spring of 1822, and settled one and a quarter miles northwest of where Salisbury now stands. He died August 4, 1835.

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