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Beardstown, 43.
Beattie, Dr. James, 245.
Beaubien, Jean Baptiste, transferred to Chicago, 27.
Beauveaux, -, license refused to, 16.
Belleville (Bellville, Belville), 77; bookkeeping taught in school near, 164; distance of Augusta from, 147; Edwards advertises land in, 153, 154; foundation of, as county seat of St. Clair, 80; mail route through, 126; on road from Kaskaskia to Edwards- ville, 115-116.
Belt, Robert, factor at Fort Edwards, 17.
Bennett, Louis, II n.
Bennett's tavern, 231; crowded during the constitutional convention, 262; located at Kaskaskia, 76.
Berry, Elijah C., auditor of public ac- counts, 275, 305. See "Berry and Blackwell" and "Berry and Cook."
"Berry and Blackwell," 209; firm pub- lishing Western Intelligencer, 172.
"Berry and Cook," firm publishing Western Intelligencer, 172.
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Bibeau, -, description of, 34; super- vised trading house at mouth of Bu- reau river, 34.
Biggs, William, defeated for state sen- ator by Kinney, 301 ; opposed slavery, 261 n; representative of St. Clair at Vincennes in 1805, p. 187.
Big Muddy river, 118 n, 175; drains Franklin county, 71 ; extent of settle- ment along, in Jackson county, 74; influence of, on transportation, 113; purchases along, 52.
Big prairie, Birkbeck's party reached, 106.
Big Spring, 175.
Big Wabash river, see Wabash river.
Birkbeck, Morris, 46, 264; antislavery influence of, in Edwards county, 257; author of Letters from Illinois and Notes on a Journey, 112; book of, published in Philadelphia and Lon- don, 108; characterizes the pioneers, 97, 98; comments on small demand for manufactures, 152 n; declares farmers place chief reliance on stock, I42; describes steamboat activity on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, 114; failure of petition of, to purchase large grant, 107-108; Flower accom- panied on western tour, 103; gives reason for locating in Illinois, 104- 105; influence of book of, 112; jour- neys into Illinois in search of prairie land, 105-106; laid off Wanborough, IIO; moved family to Boltenhouse prairie, 108; plans to import English laborers, 136; president of the agri- cultural society of Illinois, 162; pur- chased land in Edwards county for English settlement, 53; purpose of Flower and, in planning English set- tlement, 103; to enter land claim at Shawneetown for Boltenhouse prai- rie, 107; toured country to find suit- able site for English settlement, 103- 104.
Black river, 176.
Blackwell, Robert, auditor of public accounts, 209 n. See "Berry and Blackwell" and "Cook and Black- well."
Blackwell and Berry, elected public printers, 305.
Blair, George, Belleville located on land of, 80; opposed slavery, 261 n.
Blenheim, proposed town of, 77.
Blondeau, Maurice, Indian sub-agent, 13.
Bloomfield precinct, 71.
Boltenhouse prairie, Birkbeck: and party reach, 106-107; moved his fam- ily to, 108; to enter land claim for, 107;
English settlement on, 110-II2.
Bond, Shadrach, 152, 198, 275, 298, 300, 312 ; addresses general assembly, 301- 302, 310-3II; candidate for territo- rial delegate, 294; characterization of, 303; communication of, relative to road from Shawneetown to Kas- kaskia, 118-119; convenes general as- sembly, 316-317; delegate to con- gress from Indiana, 202; dominated by Kane, 302-303; governor of Illi- nois, 296, 299; member of the anti- Edwards faction, 201; nephew of, placed on the Indiana council, 1808, p. 19I n; opposition to the election of, as delegate to congress, 197; pro- claims Illinois a state, 316-317; race of, for congress, 294-296; receiver of the land office at Kaskaskia, 202; refused to join any faction, 206; rep- resentative from St. Clair county to Vincennes in 1805, p. 187 ; represent- ed St. Clair county at Cincinnati, 184; signed petition for the repeal of the slavery article in 1800, p. 185; sketch of the political life of, 202, 295 ; territorial delegate to congress, 295.
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Bond, Shadrach, Jr., nephew of Shad- rach Bond, 19I n; placed on the In- diana council, 191.
Bond county, 134, 281 ; census report from, 264, 318; convention delegates not elected before August, 260; de- scription and population of, 86-87; establishment of, 220; Kirkpatrick and Morse convention delegates, 280; one senator apportioned to, 285; op- posed to slavery, 261 ; Pope's Bluff located in, 289; postal service in, 126; Ripley situated in, 287 ; two delegates for the constitutional convention ap- portioned to, 228. See Fayette and Montgomery counties.
Bon Pas creek (Bonpas), III; Eng- lish settlement between Little Wa- bash river and, 63, 103.
Boon's lick, 147, 243-244.
Borough [Joseph], convention delegate from Madison, 280; opposed White's section on slavery, 281; suggestions of, relative to the extension of fran- chise, 284-285; voted for changes in slavery article, 280.
Boston [Mass.], 164, 170.
Boucoup creek, 124.
Bowers, Jos[eph], advertises for labor- ers, 143.
Bradsby, William, introduced bill for the repeal of the law permitting in- dentured servitude, 216; opposed concessions to the judges, 205; pro- posed admission of territory as a state, 212-213; representative from St. Clair, 203 n; signed address against slavery, 261 n.
Brady, -, advertised lots in Har- risonville, 78.
Breese, Sidney, law student in Kane's office, 266 n.
British, aided by American pioneers, 99; American Fur Company employ-
British (cont.)
ed, 23; connection of, with fur trade, 8; frontier life did not attract, 103; included in census of Gallatin coun- ty, 264; Indian grants to, 37;
influence : of Birkbeck's book on, 108-109; on Indians, 9-11, 13-14; on method of fur trading, 21-22; trad- ers, 20;
lose trading houses, 17; own Northwest Company, 22; régime of, 92; trading licenses refused to, 16; traveler describes tavern, 125. See also English settlement.
Browne, Thomas C., candidate for su- preme judge, 304; councilor from Gallatin, 217; elected associate judge, 305; lawyer at Shawneetown, 201 ; member of the Edwards faction, 201, 304; voted against the repeal of the indenture law, 217.
Brown [Samuel], author of Western Gazetteer, 75;
visited: Cahokia, 79; Kaskaskia, 75-76; Prairie du Rocher, 77.
Brownsville, county seat of Jackson, 74; decline of, after removal of county seat, 60; description of, 74- 75; settlement of Pennsylvania Ger- mans at, 102.
Buisson, Louis, II n.
Bureau river, trading house situated at mouth of, 34.
Burke, Captain, 169.
Burrill [James Jr.], opinion of, on educational provision of constitu- tion, 229; senator from Rhode Is- land, 229.
Cache river, extent of settlement along, 71, 72; purchases along, 52; Trinity and America located on, 73.
Cadwell, George, state senator from Madison county, 300.
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Cahokia, 88, 259; county seat of St. Clair until 1814, p. 79; decline of, 60; Deschamps' brigade purchases supplies at, 34; description of, 79- 80; on postal route from Kaskaskia, 126; residents described, 89; Rey- nolds lived at, 304; road through, II4.
Cahokia creek, 84; Edwards advertised land on, 154.
Cahokia Indians, disappearance of, as distinct tribe, 2.
Cain, -, 12I.
Cairns [Caldwell], convention delegate from Monroe, 280; opposed White's section on slavery, 281 ; suggestions made by, relative to arbitration, 286; voted for changes in slavery article, 280.
Cairo, 151, 157, 158; failure of Co- megys' scheme for, 73-74.
Caldwell, John, receiver of the Shaw- neetown land office, 200.
Calhoun [John C.], instructions of, concerning Indians, 10.
Calhoun county, 57; extent of settle- ment in, 83; formed from part of Madison, 83.
Calumet river, Deschamps' brigade at, 33.
Canada, 10, 23, 28, 183; French emi- grated from, 76, 88, 95; Menard from, 92.
"Candor," opinion of, on slavery, 237- 238.
Cape Girardeau, 177.
Carlyle (Carlisle, Carlysle), 52, 58; as- pired to be state capital, 82, 308, 310; founding of, 82; Goshen road ran through, 63, 114, 115; Hill's Ferry advertised as, 288; mail route through, 126. See also Hill's Ferry.
Carmi, 130; bridge builder wanted at, I43; county seat of White, 65; de-
Carmi (cont.)
scription of, 65; Grant of, adver- tises merchandise in the Illinois Emi- grant, 145-146; on road from Shaw- neetown to English settlement, 115. Carthage, see Harrisonville.
Cartwright, Peter, influence of, in the Methodist church, 175.
Casey, James, commissioner at Carmi, I43.
Cass [Lewis], comments on influence of British among Indians, IO-II; describes visitation of Indians to a garrison, 14-15; dislikes factory sys- tem, 20-21; governor of Michigan territory, 9; instructions for In- dians sent to, 10; opinion of, on the Indians' dependence, 9; supervised agents at Green Bay and Chicago, 12-13.
"Caution," opinion of, on selection of men to the convention, 250; opposed slavery, 236-237.
Census, abstract of census of 1818, p. 318-319; congress wishes, 221; con- vention considers returns of, 263- 266; Cook did not wish to retard movement for statehood until after taking of, 214; counted English in Gallatin, 109; Edwards recommend- ed taking of, 212; effects of the slavery controversy on, 238-241 ; en- abling act provides for, 227-228; im- portant to secure report of forty thousand inhabitants, 230, 249; Mor- rison's report, 190; names of pio- neers taken from reports of, 93, 96;
report of: Bond county, 86, 318; Crawford county, 60-62, 318; Ed- wards county, 62-64, 318; Franklin county, 71-72, 318; Gallatin county, 66-70, 109, 318; Jackson county, 74, 318; Johnson county, 70-71, 31I n, 318; Madison county, 82-86, 318, 319; Monroe county, 78-79, 318; Pope county, 70, 318; Randolph county,
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ILLINOIS IN 1818
Census (cont.)
75-77, 318; St. Clair county, 79-81, 318; Union county, 72-73, 318; Washington county, 81-82, 318; White county, 64-65, 318;
reports in Missouri territory re- veal increase in population due to toleration of slavery, 140; represent- atives apportioned according to, taken prior to convention, 285; state constitution provides for, 272; ter- ritorial legislature in 1818, orders, 56- 57, 219-220.
Chambers, Benjamin, president of the Indiana council, 189; signed petition of 1805, p. 189.
Chambers, Lieutenant Colonel, com- mander at Fort Crawford, 26.
Chandonnais, Jean Baptiste, American Fur Company trader at Chicago, 27.
Cheek, J., advertised school in Kaskas- kia, 166.
Chester, made county seat of Randolph in 1844, p. 77.
Chicago, agency of Indian department at, 12; agent at, under Cass, 12-13; Beaubien transferred to, 27; Des- champs' brigade at, 33; factory at, 17; importance of, as a lake port, 225, 226; Jouett agent at, 16; Mc- Kenney's opinion of British influence at, 20; method of conducting trade at, 18; military establishment at, 12; Potawatomi located near, 2; pro- posed military post at, 9; trade re- turns at, 19; traders at, equipped by American Fur Company, 27; trading house at, before war of 1812, p. 17; value of furs exported from, 22; Varnum head of factory at, II, 17.
Chicago river, Conant and Mack's es- tablishment on branch of, 27; Des- champs' brigade went up branch of, 33.
Chippewa, annuity paid to, 13; Clark to conclude treaty with, 9; location of, 2; make land cessions, 38, 40.
Chouteau, Auguste, member of com- mission to conclude treaty with In- dians, 9; negotiates treaty with In- dians at Edwardsville in 1818, p. 39; United States commissioner, 39.
Cincinnati, first legislature of north- west territory met at, 184; Fordham joined Birkbeck and Flower at, 103 n.
"A citizen," opinion of, on slavery, 248, 256, 297.
Claiborne [Thomas], member of the congressional committee considering memorial for statehood, 221; repre- sentative from Tennessee, 22I.
Clark, George Rogers, 40, 88; occupied French villages, 92, 181.
Clark [William], governor of Missouri territory, 9; member of commission to conclude treaty with Indians, 9.
Clark county, Illinois: 58; formed from part of Crawford, 60; settle- ment in, 61;
Indiana : opposed indenture law, 188; representatives from, did not sign legislative petition of 1805, p. I88.
Clark, Fort, population at, 240, 319; post at, 12.
Clay, Henry, laid Illinois constitution before national house, 3II.
Clay county, extent of settlement in, 62;
formed from part of: Crawford, 60; Edwards, 62.
Clinton county, Carlyle in, 288; ex- tent of population in, 81; formed from part of St. Clair, 81.
Clothing, description of: French, 89, 90; Indians', 4-5 ; pioneers', 132-134.
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Coles, Edward, 119; at Kaskaskia at time of the convention, 242, 262; opinion of, on prominence of slavery in political discussions, 319; probably wrote under name of "Agis" on slav- ery, 242-245; second governor, 242; sketch of life of, 242.
Columbia, 168.
Comegys, John G., failure of scheme of, for Cairo, 73-74.
"Common Sense," discusses common law, 254-255.
Compton [Levi], convention delegate from Edwards, 280; voted against changes in slavery article, 280.
Conant [Shubael], see Conant and Mack.
Conant and Mack, establishment of, on branch of Chicago river, 27-28.
Connecticut, Daggett senator from, 228; number of emigrants from, 94; Pitkin representative from, 312.
Cook, Daniel, attorney-general, 305; auditor of public accounts, 194, 209; Duncan sold the Intelligencer to, 209; candidate for : congress, 232, 294; territorial delegate, 294;
Edwards' son-in-law, 194; esti- mates number of French inhabi- tants, 89n; elected clerk of the- house, 1817, p. 212; from Kentucky, 194; inaugurated movement for statehood and interest in, 209-214, 220, 223, 231, 237; interested in land in Madison and Edwards counties, 154; laid out Waterloo, with For- quer, 78-79; member of the Edwards faction, 201, 294; nephew of Pope's, 194;
opinion of: on Bond's friendship for Edwards, 303; on Kane's influ- ence, 304; on merits of men for the convention, 236, 250;
Pope left Kaskaskia before the re- turn of, 220; race of, for congress, 294-298; wrote against slavery, 234- 236, 296-297, 319-320; wrote under
Cook (cont.)
the name of "A republican," 210-213, 234. See "Berry and Cook," "Cook and Blackwell," and "Daniel P. Cook and Co."
"Cook, Daniel P. and Co.," estab- lished Western Intelligencer, 171.
"Cook and Blackwell," firm publish- ing the Western Intelligencer, 171.
Copeland, John, proslavery advocate, 257 n.
Cork [Ireland], Birkbeck's book pub- lished in, 112.
Covenanters, Kane presented petitions of, to convention, 266-267.
Covington, 157; county seat of Wash- ington, 81, 287; decline of, after removal of county seat, 60; descrip- tion and location of, 287-288; dis- tance of Augusta from, 147; entered race for capital site, 82, 287, 289.
Cox, Thomas, advertised merchandise in Intelligencer, 144; state senator from Union county, 300.
Cowles, Edward, advertised merchan- dise in Intelligencer, 144.
Crab Orchard creek, drains William- son county, 71.
Crafts, John, trader of Conant and Mack's, 27.
Crawford county, 49 n, 57 n, 86, 281 ; census report from, 264, 318; con- vention delegates not elected before August, 260;
Cullom : census commissioner in, 239; convention delegate from, 280; prominent in, 300; representative from, 200 n ;
description and population of, 60- 62; establishment of, 220;
Kitchell: convention delegate from, 262 n, 280; senator from, 305;
McLean expected to beat Bond in, 295; one senator apportioned to, 285; Palestine county seat of, 61; part of Foster's circuit, 305; Riggs
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Crawford (cont.)
elected to state legislature from, 301 ; two delegates for the constitutional convention apportioned to, 228. See also Clark, Clay, Edgar, Fayette, Jas- per, Lawrence, Marion, and Rich- land counties.
Crawford, Fort, Chambers commander at, 26; population at, 240, 319.
Crittenden [John Jordan], opinion of, on education provision, 229; senator from Kentucky, 229.
Crooked creek, 81.
Crooks, Ramsay, 32; advises young men, 29, 31 ; agent of American Fur Company, 24-25 ; comments on plans of American Fur Company, 24; describes French-Canadian fur traders, 28; headquarters of, at New York and Mackinac, 25; reports on trade from Illinois posts, 27.
Cross, -, advertised school in Kas- kaskia, 166-167.
Cullom, Edward N., candidate for lieu- tenant governor, 299; convention delegate from Crawford, 280; mem- ber of committee on enrollments, 268; opposed White's section on slavery, 281 ; prominent in Crawford county, 300; representative from Crawford county, 203 n ; son of, cen- sus commissioner, 239; voted for changes in slavery article, 280.
Cullom, William, census commissioner in Crawford county, 239.
Cuming [Fortescue], describes Shaw- neetown, 68.
Daggett [David], senator from Con- necticut voted in favor of postpon- ing the passage of the enabling act, 223.
Dana, Edmund, author of Geograph- ical Sketches, 76; describes settle- ments in Madison county, 84, 85 ;
Dana (cont.)
name appears in Edwardsville cen- sus, 85;
visited : Alton, 85-86; Cahokia, 79; Carlyle, 82; Kaskaskia, 76.
Darling, Daniel, fur trader, 26.
Davenport, M[armaduke] S., repre- sentative from Gallatin county, 203 n.
Davis, Nathan, representative from Jackson county, 203 n.
Dearborn county [Indiana], protested against indenture law and petitioned to be joined to Ohio, 188, 189;
Thomas : and Chambers of, signed petition of 1805, p. 189; elected dele- gate to congress from Indiana, 191 ; represented, at Vincennes in 1805, p. I87;
voted against advance to second grade, 187.
Dearborn, Fort, post reëstablished at, 12.
Delaware, number of emigrants from, 94.
"Demint's," II8.
Deschamps, Antoine, Hubbard de- scribes journey of fur brigade of, 33-35 ; Illinois river fur trade super- vised by, 27, 29.
Des Moines river, Fort Edwards op- posite mouth of, 12.
Desplaines river, American Fur Com- pany's employees on, 27; Des- champs' brigade reaches, 33; Indians code land on, 39.
Detroit, 13, 187; firm of Conant and Mack at, 27; military establishment at, 12.
Detroit river, 10.
District of Columbia, 18.
Dodge, Henry S., candidate for: asso- ciate judge, 305; supreme judge, 304.
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Donaldson, aspired to be state capital, 82, 308; laid out by William and Robert Morrison, 308.
Drummond's Island, British distribute presents at, 10, 13.
Dublin [Ireland], Birkbeck's book published in, 112.
Dumoulin, John, signed petition for the repeal of the slavery article, 185.
Duncan, Matthew, sold Intelligencer to Cook, 171, 209.
Dakota, Winnebago belong to stock of, 3.
Easton, Colonel, laid out Alton, 85. East St. Louis, see Illinoistown.
Echols [William], convention delegate from Union, 280; voted against changes in slavery article, 280.
Eddy, Henry, established the Illinois Emigrant in conjunction with the Kimmels, 172-173; lawyer from Pittsburgh, 172. See Eddy and Kim- mel.
Eddy and Kimmel, firm publishing the Illinois Emigrant, 172.
Edgar, John, land speculator, 52; not member of the Vincennes conven- tion, 186; represented Randolph county at Cincinnati, 184;
signed petition : against indenture law, 192; for repeal of the slavery article in 1796 and 1800, p. 185;
transferred land to Stephenson in Kaskaskia, 154. See anti-Harrison faction.
Edgar and Morrison faction, see anti- Harrison faction.
Edgar county, 57; formed from part of Crawford, 60; government survey ran near boundary between Ver- milion county and, 42; settlement in, 61.
Edwards, Ninian, 139, 209, 298, 305, 312 n; appoints census commission, 238; became proprietor of Belleville, 80; chief justice of the court of ap- peals of Kentucky, 193;
Cook: gives opinion of Bond's friendship for, 303; son-in-law of, 194; writes, relative to election .of representative to congress, 295;
established : Madison county in 1812, p. 84; three counties in 1812, p. 196-197 ;
ex officio Indian superintendent in Illinois territory, 12; governor of Illinois territory, 9, 193; held four slaves, 84; Indian policy of, 14; in- terest of, in land speculation, 75, 80, 153-156, 200; leader of Edwards fac- tion, 206; member of commission to conclude treaty with Indians, after war of 1812, p. 9; members of the faction of, 201; negotiates treaty with Indians at Edwardsville in 1818, p. 39; objections of, to the bill for the repeal of the indenture law, 217- 218; opinion of, on the legislative control of the judges, 198-199; pro- posed taking of the census, 212; re- fused British traders admission to territory, 16; relation of Bond to, 202; Reynolds writes, in regard to lawyer's interest in land claims, 154- 156 ; senator, 303, 316; superintendent of the salt works in 1809, p. 200; United States commissioner, 39; wished to remove property qualifica- tion for suffrage, 196. See also Ed- wards faction.
Edwards county, 57 n, 69, 289; antislav- ery influence of Birkbeck, in, 257; Birkbeck purchased land in, for English settlement, 52-53 ; census re- port from, 264, 318;
convention delegates : not elected before August, 260; voted on anti- slavery side, 256;
Cook's interest in land in, 154; de- scription and population of, 62-64;
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Edwards (cont.)
description of the English settlement in, 103-113; English colonists for, in- cluded in Gallatin county census, 264; establishment of, 220; Gard representative from, 203 n; McLean expected to beat Bond in, 295; one senator apportioned to, 285 ; Palmyra county seat of, 64; part of Foster's circuit, 305; two delegates for the constitutional convention appor- tioned to, 228. See also Clay, Jeffer- son, Lawrence, Marion, Richland, Wabash, and Wayne counties.
Edwards faction, Browne member of, 304; Cook member of, 294; descrip- tion and members of, 200-203; did not control organization of the con- vention, 263; formation of, 193; in- terest of, in speculation, 289, 291 ; interested in moving the capital site to Pope's Bluff, 289; opinion of, on location of capital site, 298; points of contest of, with the anti-Edwards faction, 206; Stephenson one of the leaders of, 194; victory of, on the duties of the judges, 199-200.
Edwards, Fort, Belt factor at, 17; fac- tory at, 17; method of conducting trade at, 18; population at, 240, 319; post at, 12; trade returns at, 19.
Edwardsville, 77, 83, 158, 160, 175, 288; acreage of land office sales in district of, 49-51; attracts settlers, 102; bank incorporated at, 148; boundary and area of district of, 44-45; Chouteau and Edwards nego- tiate Indian treaty at, in 1818, p. 39; Coles' home in, 242; county seat of Madison county, 84, 143; description of, 84-85, 143; distance of Augusta from, 147; Edwards' land specula- tion in, 153-154; farmers and me- chanics advertised for in, 142; Flagg wrote from, 129; Goshen road ran to, 114; land office located at, 44, 58, 84-85, 143; list of library books at,
Edwardsville (cont.)
170-171; merchants of, advertised in the Intelligencer, 144; part of Kas- kaskia district added to district of, 47; Pope register of land office at, 30In; postal routes start from, 126; Reynolds visited, 156; road from Kaskaskia to, 115; singing society at, 164; speculation in district of, 53;
Stephenson : interest of, in land in, 154; receiver of land office at, 194; register of land office at, 84;
subscription library erected at, 170. See also land offices.
Edwardsville Spectator, 170.
Elvira, county seat of Johnson county, 71.
Elvira precinct, 71.
Embarras river, 60, 119; extent of set- tlement along, in Edwards, 63; in- fluence of, on transportation, 113. Emigrant, see Illinois Emigrant.
England, 160, 162, 163; books sent from, 169; Coles traveled in, 242; conditions in, leading to emigration, 104; description of Flower's parties from, 109-IIO; Flower to return to, for settlers, 107; Illinois advertised in, 112; number of settlers from, in 1818, p.94; plans to import labor- ers from, 136-137; settlers arrive from, 109.
English, see British.
English prairie, increase of population on, 62.
English settlement, 98; description of founding of, 103-112; difficulty of securing labor in, 136-137; Flower describes development of, 110-112; founding of Wanborough in, 110; influence of, on public affairs, 112; library established at Albion in, 169; located in Illinois because of Flow- er's preference for prairie land, 105- 107; petition of, for better postal
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English (cont.)
service, 126; purpose of Birkbeck and Flower in planning, 103; road from Shawneetown to, 115; view of slavery in, 136-137.
Equality, establishment of, 66.
"Erin," suggests subjects for discus- sion by the convention, 254.
Estes, Thomas, 154.
Factories, affected by activity of American Fur Company, 21-23; Cass comments on, 20-21 ; failure of, 19-22; location of, 17-18; manage- ment of trade at, 18-19; Marston comments on system of, 21; mili- tary posts to protect, 12; purpose of, 12; system of, established, 17.
Farnham, Russell, opened up trade west of the Mississippi, 26; sent on trading expedition, 25-26; traded with Sauk and Fox, 26.
Fayette county, 57; established in 1821, p. 87 ;
formed from part of : Bond, 86; Crawford, 60;
settlement in, 61, 86.
Fearon [Henry B.], 152 n.
Ferguson [Hamlet], convention dele- gate from Pope, 280; opposed changes in slavery article, 280; voted for White's section on slavery, 281.
Field, Green B., state representative from Pope county, 300.
Fisher, George, attitude of, on slavery, 219; candidate as delegate to con- vention, 257; convention delegate from Randolph, 280; defeated for state senatorship by McFerron, 300; favored advance to second grade, 187; opposed the repeal of the inden- ture law in the territory, 216-217; placed on the Indiana council, 191; representative from Randolph county to Vincennes in 1805, p. 187; signed
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