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Fisher (cont.)
petitions of 1805 and 1807, p. 188-189, 190; speaker in the house, 202, 203 n; voted for changes in slavery article, 280.
Flack, John, 124.
Flagg, Gershom, 163;
describes : conditions for raising stock in Madison county, 14I ; method of raising corn, 129; unhealthfulness of the country, 160, 162;
estimates value of corn, 129-130; settler from Vermont, 129.
Flint, John, classifies the pioneers, ICO-IOI.
Flower, George, accompanied Birk- beck and his family on western tour, 193;
describes: and classifies the pio- neers, 99-100; attitude of pioneers toward books, 169-170; Carmi, 65; development of English settlement, IIO-II2; early roads, 115; unhealth- fulness of the country, 161-162;
description of immigrants of, 109- IIO; desire of, to locate on prairie land, 105-107; Fordham, cousin of, joined him at Cincinnati, 103 n; plans to import English laborers, 136; purpose of Birkbeck and, in planning the English settlement, 103.
Flower, Richard, describes profits in raising stock, 141; established library at Albion, 169.
"A foe to religious tyranny," wrote on election of ministers to political office, 270.
Fond du Lac, American Fur Company traded with Indians from, 23.
Ford, Mrs., Waterloo laid out at tav- ern of, 78.
Ford, Thomas, describes French in- habitants, 90-91; estimated French population, 89 n; lived in Monroe county, 90.
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Fordham, Elias, 160; advice of, to
mechanics, I43; classifies the pioneers, 98-99, 101-102, 140, 142; cousin of Flower, joined him at Cin- cinnati, 103 n ;
describes: desire of English to hold land, 136; founding of the Eng- lish settlement, II0;
discusses plans for English settle- ment, III; estimates population of English settlement, 108-109; gives reasons for ill health of pioneers, 162; view of, on the slavery question, 136-137.
Fordham, Miss -, 161.
Forquer, George, laid out Waterloo in conjunction with Cook, 78-79.
Forsyth, Thomas, agent to various In- dian tribes, 9;
describes : Indian houses, 5; some Indian customs, 4, 6.
Foster, William P., candidate for as- sociate judge, 304-305; characteriza- tion of, 305; elected associate judge, 305.
Fox, see Sauk and Fox.
Fox river, American Fur Company's traders in valley of, 23; Deschamps' brigade reaches, 33; Indians cede land on, 38, 39; Potawatomi located on, 2.
France, Coles traveled in, 242; num- ber of settlers from, in 1818, p. 95.
Frankfort, 72.
Frankfort precinct, 71.
Franklin county, 118 n, 281 ;
census : commissioner appointed in, 238-239 ; commissioner noted loca- tion of settlers in, 57; report for, 249, 264, 318, 319;
description and population of, 71- 72; establishment of, in 1818, p. 220; Harrison and Roberts convention delegates from, 280; no county seat in, 60; one senator apportioned to
Franklin (cont.)
Johnson county and, 285; two dele- gates for the constitutional conven- tion apportioned to, 228. See Wil- liamson county.
Frazier's Ferry, 288.
French, 102, 192, 211, 280; agricultural methods of, 91-92; Birkbeck's book translated into, 112; Clark occupied villages of, 92, 181; description of, 89; desired suspension of the slav- ery article in the ordinance, 184; ex- tent of settlement of, 61, 63, 76, 79, 88, 89 n, 92, 94 n ; find confederacy of five Indian tribes in Illinois, I-2; Ford describes manners and cus- toms of, 90-91; founded town of Cahokia, 79; influence on method of fur trading, 8, 21-22, 27-28; Indian grants to, 37 ; Kinney accused of tak- ing command under, 259; land claims of, 44; migrated south from Canada, 88; number of, at Kaskaskia, 76; signers of the petition of 1807 from Randolph county, 190; sign petition for extinction of Indian title, 185; speculators obtained land from, 52. See French-Canadians.
French-Canadians, 30; Crook's de- scription of, 28; extent of trading of, 21; Menard, 299; number of, forming early population, 96; value of services of, 16.
"A friend to an able judiciary," 304. "A friend to enquiry," opinion of, on framing a constitution, 241 ; opposed to slavery, 241, 245-246, 247.
"A friend to equal justice," opinions of, on taxation, 252-254, 283.
Galena, lead mines of, located in In- dian cession, 38 n.
Gallatin county, 139, 228, 281, 289; Browne of, voted against the repeal of the indenture law, 217; census
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Gallatin (cont.)
report from, 240, 264, 318; conven- tion delegates from, voted on slavery side, 257; Davenport representative from, 203 n; description and popu- lation of, 66-70; English counted in census of, 109; established in 1812, p. 197; Hardin lawyer in, 200; Hub- bard, Jones, and White convention delegates from, 280; McLean ex- pected to beat Bond in, 295; Morris inhabitant of, 138; one senator ap- portioned to, 285; population of, 249; question in, over the successor of Griswold, 199-200; Shawneetown county seat of, 68; Street clerk of the court of, 200; two representa- tives assigned to, 197; three dele- gates to the constitutional conven- tion apportioned to, 227; White of, chairman of constitution committee, 265. See Hardin and Saline coun- ties and also salt works.
Gallotin county, see Gallatin county.
Gard, Seth, 266; convention delegate from Edwards, 280; representative from Edwards county, 203 n; sug- gestions of, for location of capital site, 289-290; voted against changes in slavery article, 280.
Garrett, Moses, tavern keeper, 72.
Garretson, James, opposed slavery, 261 n.
Gatewood, -, cutthroat of Mason's narrative, 119, 120.
General assembly, action of regarding capital seat, 308-310; adjourned, 306-307; Bond's speech to, 301-302; considers financial matters, 310-3II ; convened by Bond, 317;
elects : justices of the supreme court, 304-305; United States sena- tors, 303-304;
met at Kaskaskia, 301.
Georgetown [District of Columbia], McKenney's headquarters at, 18.
Georgia, 96; non-English immigration into, 97; number of emigrants from, 94, 95; Tait senator from, 228.
Germans, 125, 133; came west under Ankeny and Kimmel, 102; character- ization of, 102; influence of Birk- beck's book on, 112; number of, from Pennsylvania, 102; population of, in territory, 97; settlement of, at Brownsville, 102.
Germany, Barnsback from, 103; Coles traveled in, 242; number of settlers from, in 1818, p. 95.
Gilbreath, James, signed petition of Randolph county in 1807, p. 190.
Gilham, -, representative from Madison county, 203 n.
Golconda (Lusk's Ferry), 116, 295, 297; county seat of Pope, 70; road from, to Shawneetown supersedes old route from Fort Massac, 114; road to Kaskaskia, 52, 70, 71, 72.
Goshen, 177; location of, in Madison county, 83, 143; merchants of, ad- vertised merchandise in the Intelli- gencer, 144; Walker started on cir- cuit from, 175.
Goshen road, development of, 114-115; settlement along, 63, 65; Vincennes road joined, 114.
Goshen settlement, see Goshen.
Graham, Richard, appointed judge, 205 1; Indian agent for Illinois ter- ritory, 13.
Grammar [John], 300; councilor from Johnson, 217; voted for the repeal of the indenture law, 217.
Grant, John, advertises merchandise in the Illinois Emigrant, 145-146.
Green Bay, American Fur Company's traders along shores of, 23.
Green Bay, agency of Indian depart- ment at, 12-13; factory at, 17; Irwin
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Green (cont.)
factor at, 17; method of conducting trade at, 18; military establishment at, 12; proposed military post at, 9.
Greene county, 57; formed from part of Madison, 83; settlement in, 83.
Greenville, Indians surrendered land at, in 1795, p. 37.
Greenup, William C., forwarded copy of constitution to Clay, 31I; posi- tions held by, in Randolph county, 263; secretary of the convention, 263.
Griffin, Anthony, 176.
Grimberry, -, cutthroat of Mason's narrative, 119.
Griswold [Stanley], Towles succeeded, as judge, 199-200.
Gulf of Mexico, easy access to, II3.
Hall, James, Jr., convention delegate from Jackson, 257, 280; voted for changes in slavery article, 280.
Hamburg, 72.
Hamilton county, extent of settlement in, 65; formed from part of White, 64.
Hardin, Jeptha, Jones of Shawnee- town brother-in-law of, 201; pro- posed as successor of Griswold, 200.
"Hardin county, extent of settlement in, 67-68;
formed from part of: Gallatin, 66; Pope, 70.
"Hardscrabble," Conant and Mack's establishment at, 27.
Hargrave, Willis, commissioner at Carmi, 143; convention delegate from White, 280, 300; opposed changes in slavery article, 280; rep- resentative from White, 203 n ; voted for White's section on slavery, 281.
Harmony, 114. .
Harricane Fork, see Hurricane creek Harrington's tavern, 176.
Harris, William Tell, describes Shaw- neetown, 69-70.
Harrison [Isham], convention delegate from Franklin, 280; voted for changes in slavery article, 280.
Harrison, Isom, 139, 140.
Harrison, William Henry, called con- vention which petitioned for the suspension of slavery article, 185- 186; charges against, on account of the indenture law, 192; Edgar and Morrison faction opposed, 185; fa- vored indentured servitude, 186; Fisher and Menard followers of, 189; government survey ran along purchase of, 42; governor of Indiana territory, 184; increase in opposition to, in 1807, p. 191; Indiana delegate to congress, 184; Indians cede land by treaties negotiated by, in 1809, p. 38; opinion of, on article of slavery, 315; opposed Illinois leaders in ac- tion for advance to second grade, 185; Parke friend of, elected dele- gate to congress, 187; proposed ad- vance to second grade, 186; repre- sentative from Ohio, 312; secretary of the northwest territory, 184; se- cured act establishing Indiana terri- tory, 184. See Harrison faction.
Harrison faction, approved indenture act, 186, 187-188; Bond leaned to- ward, 197, 202; characterization of, 192-193; Jones candidate of, in 1808, p. 201; opposed division of Indiana, 188; petitioned for the repeal of the slavery article in 1805 and for ad- mission as a state, 187-188; sup- ported Michael Jones as delegate to congress from Indiana, 191, 201 ; supporters of the governor, 185. See also anti-Harrison faction.
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Harrisonville, advertised as Carthage, 78; county seat of Monroe, 78; de- scription of tavern at, 125.
Hatton Garden [London], 109.
Hay, John, resigned from the Indiana council, 191; selected councilor of Indiana, 187.
Hay, Lowry, commissioner at Carmi, I43
Heacock, Russel E., candidate against Hall as convention delegate from Jackson county, 257.
Hendricks [William], member of con- gressional committee to consider constitution, 312; representative from Indiana, 312.
Hennepin, 34. Hill, Dr. - , 120. Hill, John, 288.
Hillsboro, 57, 86.
Hill's Ferry, advertised as Carlyle, 288; Carlyle located at, 82; descrip- tion of and location on present site of Carlyle, 288-289; entered race for capital site, 287; Prickett's interest in, 287; resolutions favoring, for capital site, 290. See also Carlyle.
Hill's Station, 86. Horse creek, 77.
Houses, description of a tavern, 125; English, III; French, 76, 89, 91 ; In- dian, 5; pioneer, 131, 178-179.
Hubbard [Adolphus F.], 266; char- acterizes Foster, 305; convention delegate from Gallatin, 280; pro- posed that capital sites be examined by commissioners, 290; voted for changes in slavery article, 280.
Hubbard, Gurdon S., Ion; clerk at trading house at mouth of Bureau river, 34; employee of American Fur Company, 32; narrative of, about Deschamps' brigade, 32-35.
Humphreys, Edward, receiver of the land office at Kaskaskia, 201 n.
Hunter, Major -, 155.
Hunterstown, see Upper Alton.
Hunter township, located in Edgar county, 61.
Huron, Lake, 33; activity of Ameri- can Fur Company on east shore of, 23.
Hurricane, foundation of, 70. Hurricane creek, 57, 86, 288.
"Illinois," city of, see Illinoistown.
Illinois Indians, country named after five tribes of the, I; location of tribes of, 2. See also Cahokia, Kas- kaskia, Michigamea, Peoria, and Tamoroa.
Illinois Emigrant, 145; commented on banking, 150-152; established by Eddy and the Kimmels, 172-173.
Illinois Herald, 209; issued in Kaskas- kia, 76; name changed to Western Intelligencer under "Daniel P. Cook and Co.," 171; published by Duncan 171.
Illinois Intelligencer, see Western In- telligencer.
Illinois river, 14, 32, 37, 40, 43; Ameri- can Fur Company traded along, 24; annuities paid Indians on, 13; canal proposed from, to Lake Michigan, 39, 225; Deschamps supervised trade in valley of, 27, 29; Fort Clark on, 12; fur trade region in valley of, 22, 25; Indians cede land on, 38-39; in- fluence of, on transportation, 113; maple sugar exported from, 22n; Peoria located on, 2; Potawatomi located on, 2; settlement in valley of, 83.
Illinoistown (East St. Louis), 157; first plotted under name Jackson-
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Illinoistown (cont.)
ville, 80; founding of, opposite St. Louis, 80-81; road to, from Kaskas- kia, 114.
"Independence," opinion of, on slavery, 248.
Indiana, 38, 40, 57, 126, 136, 168, 176, 194, 195, 202, 213, 217, 224, 225, 300, 319; American Fur Company ex- tends activity to, 23; Birkbeck's rea- sons for not locating in, 103-105; Bond in legislature of, 295; Bond's activity in, 197; choice locations in, bought up, 93; connection of slavery issue with the division of, 184-192; constitution patterned after that of, 269, 276, 282, 283, 284; delegate to congress and councilors elected by the people in, 207; enabling act of, served as model for territory, 221- 222; English located in, 110; faction in eastern, opposed to slavery, 187; government survey ran along line of, 42; Hendricks representative from, 312; indenture law passed in, 186-188; issues in, from 1800 to 1809, p. 184-192; law of indentured servi- tude of, carried into the territory with the other laws, 214-215; Loui- siana placed under, 186; Menard rep- resented Randolph in legislature of, 299; Menard's and Fisher's activity in politics of, 202; non-English im- migration into, 97; number of emi- grants from, 94, 95; petitions to be admitted as a state, 188-189; pioneers from, 101 ; Potawatomi cede land in, 39; Princeton located in, 106; pro- vision relating to slavery in consti- tution of, 278-279, 314, 315; question of slavery in, 238; reaches second grade, 187-188; resolutions favoring division of, accepted in 1808, p. 191- 192; territory of, established with Harrison as governor, 184; Thomas and Jones candidates as delegates to congress from, 201 ; western counties
Indiana (cont.)
of, wanted slavery article repealed, 185
Indians, agriculture of, 8; British in- fluence among, 9-II; crops of, 4; danger from, to public roads, 119; dependence of, on traders, 8-9; dress of, 4-5; extent of American Fur Company's trade among, 23-24; fac- tory system affects, 15-22; hostility of, toward Americans, Ion; houses of, 5; influenced by fur traders, 20; kinds of goods traded with, 29-30; land cessions from, I; location of tribes of, 2; manufactures of, 5; method of trading with, 30-32; mili- tary posts to be established among, 9-10, 12; organization of department of, 12-15; peace established between United States and, 9; people of Illi- nois country wanted title of, extin- guished, 185; phratries of the Blacks and Whites of, 6-7; population of tribes of, 2-3; possessions of, in Crawford county, 60; presence of, in Indiana, 105; religion of, 7-8; retard survey of bounty lands, 43; title of, to land in Madison county, 83; trade of, at Fort Edwards, 18; tribal organization of, 5-6, 8. See Cahokia,' Chippewa, Kaskaskia, Kickapoo, Me- nominee, Michigamea, Ottawa, Peoria, Potawatomi, Sauk and Fox, Tamaroa, and Winnebago.
Intelligencer, see Western Intelligencer.
Ireland, number of settlers from, in 1818, p. 94; Reynolds from, 103.
Irwin, Mathew, factor at Green Bay, 17.
Jackson county, Brownsville county seat of, 74; census commissioner appointed in, 238; census report from, 264, 318; convention delegates voted on slavery side, 257; Davis representative from, 203 n; delegates
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Jackson (cont.)
from, admitted to the convention, 263; description and population of, 74-75; establishment of, 220; Ger- man settlement in, 102; Hall conven- tion delegate from, 280; names of convention delegates reported by July 15, p. 260; one senator appor- tioned to, 285; purchases in, 52; two delegates for the constitutional con- vention apportioned to, 228; Will convention delegate from, 257; Wil- son clerk and recorder of, 305. See also Perry county.
Jacksonville, see Illinoistown.
Jasper county, 57; formed from part of Crawford, 60; settlement in, 61. Jefferson [Thomas], slavery compact of, with Lemen, 319.
Jefferson county, 130; extent of set- tlement in, 63, 65;
formed from part of: . Edwards, 62; White, 64.
Jena [Saxony], Birkbeck's book pub- lished in, 112.
Jersey county, 57, 84; formed from part of Madison, 82; settlement in, 83.
Johnson, John W., factor at Prairie du Chien, 17.
Johnson, Richard M., Edwards asks cooperation of, 196; member of the committee considering the memorial for statehood, 221; representative from Kentucky, 22I.
Johnson county, census report from, 264, 31I n, 318; convention delegates from, voted on antislavery side, 256; county seat changed from El- vira to Vienna, 71; description and population of, 70-71; established in 1812, p. 197; Grammar of, voted for the repeal of the indenture law, 217; M'Fatridge and West delegates from, 280; one representative as-
Johnson (cont.)
signed to, 197; one senator appor- tioned to Franklin county and, 285; Palmer representative from, 203 n; two delegates for the constitutional convention apportioned to, 228. See Massac, Pulaski, and Union counties. Jones, Enoch, 156.
Jones, John Rice, joined opposition to Harrison, 191; signed petition for repeal of slavery article in 1800, p. 185; son of, elected representative from Randolph county, in 1808, p. 19I.
Jones, Michael (Kaskaskia), candidate for United States senate, 303; con- fusion of, with Jones of Shawnee- town, 201 n; convention delegate from Gallatin, 280; defeated as dele- gate to congress from Indiana, 191- 192; member of the anti-Edwards faction, 201, 291 ; opposed to specu- lation, 291; register of the land of- fice at Kaskaskia, 191; voted for changes in slavery article, 280.
Jones, Michael (Shawneetown), con- fusion of, with Jones of Kaskaskia, 201 n; lawyer at Shawneetown, half brother of Thomas, and brother-in- law of Hardin, 201; member of the anti-Edwards faction, 201.
Jones, Rice, elected representative of Randolph county, in 1808, p. 191 ; son of John Rice Jones, 191.
Jonesboro, county seat of Union county, 72.
Jordan, Thomas, 117.
Jouett, Charles, controlled Indian af- fairs at Chicago, 13; refused license to French-Canadian trader, 16.
Kaintuck, see Kentucky.
Kane, Elias K., 270, 273, 275, 276, 284, 305; Breese student in office of,
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Kane (cont.)
266 n; candidate for the convention from Randolph county, 232; chair- man of committee on census returns, 263-264; constitution reported writ- ten in office of, 266 n; convention delegate from Randolph, 280; ex- pected election to convention, 257; friend of McLean, 201; influence of, 202, 265, 302-303, 304; lawyer at Kas- kaskia, 200; leader, with Thomas, of the anti-Edwards faction, 200, 201, 206, 291; member of committees of revision and enrollments, 268; op- posed to speculation, 291; presented petitions from Covenanters, 266-267 ; received query about speculation, 156-157; secretary of state, 202, 302; suggestions of, relative to capital site, 289, 290; voted for changes in slavery article, 280.
Kankakee river, 29; American Fur Company's employees on, 27; In- dians cede land on, 39; Potawatomi located on, 2.
Kaskaskia (Kaskaskies, Kascasky), 13, 88, 115, 117, 118, 119, 124, 152, 155, 156, 158, 162, 181, 214, 220, 303, 320; acreage of land office sales in district of, 49-51; advertisements of merchandise in stores in, 144; an- ticipation at, of prospects of state- hood, 231; attracts settlers, 102; bank of Cairo located temporarily at, 74; Bond receiver of the land office at, 202; boundary and area of district of, 44-45; Breese student in Kane's office at, 266 n; Cahokia rival of, 79; capital of territory, 58, 75; celebrations in, 164, 232, 292-293 ; Check advertised school in, 166; Coles visited at time of the conven- tion, 242; constitution printed at, 3II ; constitutional convention assem- bled at, 262; Cook returned to, 209- 210; Cross advertised school in, 166- 167; description and location of, 58-
Kaskaskia (cont.)
60, 75-77; destroyed by Mississippi river flood, 77; discussion of moving the capital from, 286-292; Dodge lawyer in, 304; Edwards advertised from, 153; general assembly met at, 212, 317; Humphreys receiver of the land office at, 201 n; importance of roads to, 116; insufficient appropri- ations for road from Shawneetown to, 118-119; Jones register of the land office at, 191, 201; Kane lawyer at, 200; land office at, 58, 75; land on Mississippi attached to land district of, 43; made capital site for twenty years, 291; Menard lived at, 15, 299; Morrison lived at, 303; newspaper established at, by Duncan, 171; pe- titions from inhabitants of, for ex- tention of suffrage, 196; population . of, 3; postal routes from, 126-127; preëmption rights granted in district of, 47-48; proposal to retain capital at, 290-291 ; proposed addition adver- tised by Edwards, 154; William Reynolds a physician in, 299-300; Reynolds visited at time of general assembly, 304;
road to: Edwardsville, 115; Fort Massac, 114; Golconda, 52, 70, 71, 72; Illinoistown, 114; Shawneetown, 52, 67, 71; St. Louis, 77; Vincennes, 81, 115;
travel improved between Shawnee- town and, 117; tribe of, located near town of, 2; two general courts a year held at, 205; value of Indian presents sent to, 14; Watson car- ried mail and passengers from, to St. Louis, 127-128. See land offices. Kaskaskia Indians, 39; annuity paid to, 13; location of, near town of, 2; surrendered land at Vincennes in 1803, P. 37.
Kaskaskia river (Okaw), 2, 37, 40, 57, 76, 77, 86, 118, 128, 287, 290, 291, 310; consideration of capital sites on, 289; Donaldson located on, 308; ex-
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Kaskaskia (cont.)
tent of settlement between Missis- sippi river and, 58; Hill's Ferry lo- cated on, 288; influence of, on trans- portation, 113; land purchases along, 52; Pope's Bluff located on, 87, 289; proposed capital sites on, 309; set- tlement along, 61, 75, 81.
Kascasky, see Kaskaskia.
Kennerley, James, managed trade at St. Louis, 18.
Kennerly, -, 156.
Kentucky, 69, 70, 102, 120, 128, 135, 137, 138, 150, 168; Anderson repre- sentative from, 312; arrival of fac- tory goods from, 147; Barnsback lived in, 103; Browne from, 201 ; choice locations in, bought up, 93; comments in, on the passage of the Illinois enabling act, 232; Cook from, 194; cost of seed corn in, 178; con- stitution patterned after that of, 269, 271 n, 275, 283; Crittenden senator from, 229; Cullom from, 300; Ed- wards chief justice of the court of appeals of, 193; emigrants from, 94, 95, 96, 101; Flower at Shelby's, gov- ernor of, 106; furnished funds for Edwardsville bank, 148; Hardin from, 200; Johnson representative of, 196, 221; McLean from, 200; non-English immigration into, 97; number of banks incorporated in, 148; Pope from, 193; Reynolds from, 299; Stephenson from, 194; Talbot senator from, 228, 229; Towles from, 200.
Kentucky Argus, 232.
Kickapoo, annuity paid to, 13; cede land in 1809, p. 38; cede land in 1819 and move west of Mississippi, 39; Clark to conclude treaty with, 9; gentes of, 6; location of, 2, 3; popu- lation of, 3.
Kimmel, Peter, established the Illinois Emigrant in conjunction with Eddy,
Kimmel (cont.)
172-173; printer from Pittsburgh, 172. See Eddy and Kimmel.
Kimmel, Singleton, led Germans west, I02.
King [Rufus], senator from New York voted in favor of postponing the passage of the enabling act, 228.
Kinney, Andey, accusations against, as convention delegate, 259.
Kinney, William, elected state senator from St. Clair county, 301 ; opposed slavery, 261 n.
Kinzie, James, American Fur Company trader at Chicago, 27.
Kirkpatrick, Thomas, convention dele- gate from Madison, 280; Edwards- ville laid out on land of, 84; opposed changes in slavery article, 280; voted against striking out section two of slavery article, 281.
Kitchell, Joseph, candidate for asso- ciate judge, 305; convention delegate from Crawford, 262 n, 280; moved change in capital site, 289; senator from Crawford county, 305; voted for changes in slavery article, 280.
Knight's prairie, 65.
Knox county, Indiana: Harrison's following in, 185; Jones representa- tive from, 191 ; petition from, oppos- ing division, 192; voted for advance to second grade, 187;
Northwest territory: territory about Vincennes in 1788, p. 183.
Lachine, Hubbard left, 32. La Compte, Pierre, tavern keeper, 77. La Croix, "Mitchell," II n. Laducier, Jean Baptiste, 155. La Motte's prairie, Palestine located on, 62.
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La Motte township, in Crawford county, 61.
Land offices, acreage of the sales conducted by, 49-52; began sale of land in 1814, p. 44, 49; boundaries and areas of the three offices in ter- ritory, 45; Edwardsville, 44, 58, 84, 85, 143, 194, 301 n; Kaskaskia, 44, 75, 76, 191, 201, 202; manager of salt works complained to, of intrud- ers on reservation, 67; method of conducting public land sales through, 44-45; Palestine, 62; Shawneetown, 44, 53, 67, 69-70, 200; towns of, attract settlers, 102; Vincennes, 44; warrants issued at general, for bounty lands, 43.
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