We your Petitioners Respectfully Pray your honerable body to form a new County out of the North part of ^the^ Countys of Sangamo and Makeon and the South part of the County of Tazewell Beginning at the South east Corner of Town eighteen north Range three East thence north on S^d[Said] Range Line to the north East Corner of Town Twenty two north Range three East thence West to the north west Corner of Town Twenty two north Range three west of the third Principle maredian line thence South to the South west Corner of Town eighteen north Range three west thence East to the place of beginning and we your petitioners as in duty bound will ever Pray1