Pleasant township was one of the original and first erected townships of the county. The boundaries of the township at that time were very much different than at present, as part of the territory which was at first embraced in this has been taken off to help form Fairfield and Range townships. The original boundaries are given in the following transcript from the commissioners' records under date of April 30, 1810:
"Ordered, that all that tract of country comprehended in the following boundaries compose a township to be known and designated by the name of Pleasant, and is bounded as follows:
"Beginning at the southeast corner of Union township, on the Franklin county line; thence to the corner of Pickaway county line; thence with the Pickaway county line to the comer of Fayette county; thence with the Fayette county line to the corner of Stokes township; thence with Stokes township line to the place of beginning." The erection of the townships of Union, Jefferson, Deer Creek, Stokes, Darby and Pleasant, although occurring on April 30, 1810, were not recorded for nearly five months, the day being September 4.
On March 2, 1824, a change was made in Pleasant and Range townships when it was "ordered by the commissioners of Madison county now in session, on petition being presented, that part of Range township be, and is hereby, attached to Pleasant township: Beginning at the county line between Fayette and Madison counties, where the same crosses Duff's fork, running west one mile with said line; thence in a north direction to where the Federal road crosses Duff's fork in the line of Pleasant township, all that part hereby stricken off of Range to be attached to Pleasant township. Again, on December 1, 1851, the line between Fairfield and Pleasant townships was, on petition, changed as follows: Commencing at that point in the county line near James Adams; thence south with the county line to the lower corner of R. Means' survey, No. 5,766; thence west with said survey line and the line of Edward Fitzgerald's land to the northwest corner of Henry Fleshour's survey, No. 5,190; thence to the northeast corner of the Hardin & Grady's survey, No. 5,799. and with the north line of said survey, No. 5,799, to the county road near Levin Jones' house; thence with said road to Deer creek; thence up the creek to the present corner of Fairfield township."