Shadrach Bond Sr., a soldier of the Revolution War and the army of George Rogers Clark, settled about one-third mile east of this site in 1782. His nephew, Shadrach Bond, the first Governor of the State of Illinois (1818-1892), moved here from Maryland in 1794 and lived with him until 1810. He purchased land near Moredock Lake, where he lived until 1814. He died in Kaskaskia in 1832.