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Roads (cont.)
kaskia, 115; extent of settlement along, 74, 240; Flower describes, 115; Fort Massac to Kaskaskia, 114; give value to land, 52; Golconda to Kas- kaskia, 52, 70, 71, 72, 114; Goshen, 63, 65, 114; Illinoistown to Kaskaskia, II4; importance of, to salt works, II7; Kaskaskia to St. Louis, 77, 78; local 123-124; Mason describes expe- riences on early, 120-123; memorial for statehood embodies needs for good, 213, 228; ministers not to work on, 271 ; oppressive system of work on, 252; petition for betterment of, 115-117; St. Louis to Vincennes, 62, 82, 114, 115, II9; Shawneetown, 52, 82, 83, 115, 126, 146; Shawneetown to Kaskaskia, 52, 67, 71, 114, 118, 119; taxation for, set forth in the memo- rial, 223; Vincennes, 57, 146; Vin- cennes to Kaskaskia, 81.
Roberts [Thomas], convention dele- gate from Franklin, 280; opposed changes in slavery article, 280; voted for White's section on slavery, 281.
Rock and Cave, 176, 178.
Rock Island, 4, 10; Fort Armstrong on, 12, 21.
Rock river, Crafts sent trading outfits to, 27; Hubbard visits, 34; Potawa- tomi located on, 2; Sauk and Fox located near mouth of, 2; Winneba- go located on, 2.
Ronalds, -, discusses plans for Eng- lish settlement, III.
Rutherford, -, cutthroat of Mason's narrative, 119, 120, 12I.
Russellville, fort located at, 61-62.
Russia, Coles sent on mission to, 242.
St. Charles (S. Charles), mail route to, 126.
St. Clair, William, signed petition for the repeal of the slavery article, 165.
St. Clair county, 57 n, 83, 116, 153, 228, 236, 237, 270, 272, 309 ;
Illinois : admission to statehood proposed by Bradsby, 212; Amos of, voted for the repeal of the indenture law, 217 ; Belleville supersedes Caho- kia as county seat in, 79-80; Bradsby representative from, 203 n, 205 ; census report from, 264, 318, 319; condition of the courts in, 197- 198; demand for roads in, 114; de- scription and population of, 79-82 ; Edwards advertised land in, 154; is- sues in, in 1816, p. 203; Kinney elected state senator from, 300; large land holdings in, 51; Lemen, Mess- inger [and Thomas], convention delegates from, 280; Matheny repre- sentative from, 203 n, 205 ; Messinger elected to legislature from, 300; Moore held offices in, 239, 300; names of convention delegates reported by July 15, p. 260; one senator appor- tioned to, 285; opposed to slavery, 261; subscriptions from, to the Edwardsville bank, 148; three dele- gates to the constitutional convention apportoined to, 227; two representa- tives assigned to, 197; vote in, for governor, 299. See Clinton, Monroe, and Washington counties.
Indiana : Bond and Biggs repre- sentatives from, at Vincennes in 1805, p. 187; men from, signed peti- tion for repeal of slavery article in 1800, p. 185; Morrison's estimate of population of, 190; petition from, for division of Indiana, 192; represent- atives from, did not sign legislative petition of 1805, p. 188; voted against advance to second grade, 186-187 ;
Northwest territory: Bond repre- sented, at Cincinnati, 184; name of Illinois country under government by the ordinance, 183 ; men from, signed petition for repeal of slavery article in 1796, p. 185.
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St. Genevieve, merchants from, bid for Illinois trade, 144.
St. Jean, -, 26.
St. Louis, 18, 62, 63, 69, 77, 79, 81, 114, 123, 127, 154, 155, 288, 289; American Fur Company encounters competi- tion with traders from, 26; banks in- corporated in, 148; Deschamps' bri- gade reaches, 34; description of road from Vincennes to, 119; distance of Augusta from, 147; Easton from, 85; farmers and mechanics advertised for in, 143; Farnham to trade at, 26; furnished funds for Edwardsville bank, 148; Goshen road joined road
from Vincennes to, 114-115; Illi- noistown located opposite, 80; Indians cede land at, in 1816, p. 38; merchants from, bid for Illinois trade, 144; post for receiving sup- plies, 18; postal service to, 126, 127- 128; road to Kaskaskia, 77; road to Vincennes, 82; trading activity at, 25.
St. Peter's river, see Minnesota river. Saint Vincents, see Vincennes.
Saline, see salt works.
Saline county, extent of settlement in, 67 ; formed from part of Gallatin, 66.
Saline creek, 58; extent of settlement along, 71; salt works on, 66.
Saline river, 71, 115; United States reservation along, 52.
Salem, 63. Sales, 85.
Salt works, 82, 289; benefits to, from banks, 150; closing of Will's, in Jack- son county, 74-75; cost of salt from, 3II ; government controlled, 66, 152; importance of roads to, 117; influ- ence of, on slavery, 280; in Ohio, 116; location and importance of, in Gallatin, 66-67; operation of, during war of 1812, p. 68-69; proslavery in-
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Salt works (cont.)
fluence of, 257; Shawneetown, factor in politics, 200; slavery permitted in, 280.
Sandusky, trading house at, before war of 1812, p. 17.
Sanford [Nathan], senator from New York voted in favor of postponement in passing enabling act, 228.
Sangamo country, 82.
Sangamon river, Kickapoo located on, 2.
Sauk and Fox, British influence among, 10; cede land, 38-39; Clark to conclude treaty with, 9; crops of, 4; Farnham traded with, 26; liquor supplied to, by private traders, 18; location of, 2; population of, 3.
Schultz [Christian], visited: Cahokia, 79; Prairie du Rocher, 77.
S. Charles, see St. Charles.
Scotch-Irish, number of, in territory, 97, 103.
Scotland, number of settlers from, in 1818, p. 95.
Scott, John, delegate from Missouri territory, 230; petitions for better postal service, 127.
Scott, Johna, signs indenture, 139.
Scott, William, Sr., opposes slavery, 261 n.
Scripps, John, account of one of the circuits of, 175-179.
Shawnee Chief, 172 n.
Shawneetown (Shawnee Town, Shaw- noetown), 53, 77, 82, 83, 105, 119, 120, 124, 161, 240, 248, 280; acreage of land office sales in district of, 49-51; advertisements of merchan- dise in paper of, 145-146; arrival in, of Flower's parties, 109; attracts set- tlers, 102; bank incorporated at, 148;
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Shawneetown (cont.)
Birkbeck to enter land claim at, 107; boundary and area of district of, 44- 45; Browne lawyer in, 201, 304; county seat of Gallatin, 68; descrip- tion and location of, 58-60, 68-70; Eddy and Kimmel established paper in, 172; enthusiasm for bank at, 148- 150; Goshen road extended from, to Carlyle, 63, 114; Griswold died in, 200; holdings on roads between, and Carlyle and Kaskaskia, 52; influ- ence of the salt works at, in politics, 200; insufficient appropriations for road, from Kaskaskia to, 118-119; Jones lawyer in, 201; land office established at, in 1812, p. 44, 58, 200; land purchased near, for speculation, 52; McLean lawyer in, 201, 294; pos- tal route to, 126-127; preemption rights in district of, 48;
road : 289; from Golconda super- cedes old route from Fort Massac, II4; to Kaskaskia, 67, 71; to St. Louis, 146; to the English settlement, II5;
sale of land at, since 1816, p. 93; second paper established at, 250; Sloo and Caldwell connected with land office at, 200; tract bought at, for the English settlement, 107; travel improved between Kaskaskia and, II7; two general courts a year held at, 205. See land offices.
Shelby, Governor [Isaac], Flower heard of prairies at house of, in Kentucky, 106.
Shoal creek, 57; Edwards advertised land on, 154; extent of settlement along, 58, 86; Ripley located on, 87, 287.
Silver creek, 57, 236; Augusta located on, 146; extent of settlement along, 83, 84.
Silvey, indenture of sale of, 138-140.
Slade, Charles, bought land from John Hill, 288.
Slavery, "A friend to enquiry's" oppo- sition to, 241, 245-246, 247, 248; at- tempted interpretation of article on, 282; attempt to repeal the indenture law, 215-218, 234; Baptists formed "The Illinois Anti-Slavery League," 319; becomes the dominant issue in the constitutional convention cam- paign, 218-219, 243-249, 255-258, 296-297; Birkbeck's dislike for, 103; "Candor" writes on, 237-238; "Cau- tion" writes against, 236-237; cen- sus affects controversy on, 238; Coles' opinion on, under name of "Agis," 242-245, 246, 319;
connection of: with extension of northern boundary, 225, 320; with the division of Indiana, 184-192;
convention considers proposed ar- ticle on, 277-282; Cook's opposition to, 212, 234-236, 296-298, 320; Cove- nanters voted against, 267; effect of, on population of Missouri territory, I40; English view of, 136-138; exist- ence of party against, in Illinois, 206; extent of : 138; in Bond, 86; in Crawford, 60; in Franklin, 71; in Gallatin, 66; in Jackson, 74; in John- son, 70-71; in Madison, 82, 84; in Monroe, 78; in Pope, 70; in St. Clair, 81; in Union, 72; in White, 64;
faction in eastern Indiana opposed to, 187; indenture law circumvents ordinance's prohibition of, 138-140, 186, 187-188, 212-218; Indiana ar- ticle on, 279-280; influence of Eng- lish settlement on, 112; issue in cam- paign for representative to congress, 296-298; Jefferson-Lemen compact relative to, 319; Kinney opposed, 259; leaders of antislavery party acknowledge defeat, 261 ; McLean in favor of, 297; objections to Illi- nois article of, in congress, 313-316; Ohio article on, 278; opinions of "Independence" on, 248; ordinance prohibited, 183; permitted in the salt works, 280; petitions for the repeal
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Slavery (cont.)
of the ordinance's article on, 184- 192; provisions for, under Virginia act of cession, 181, 182; "Prudence" writes on, 247-248; salt works an influence for, 257, 280; supposed cause for migration from south, 97, IOI ; variety of positions on the ques- tion of, after the passage of the enabling act, 233; votes cast for changes in article on, 280.
Sloo, Thomas, register of the Shaw- neetown land office, 200.
Somerset county, Germans from, in Pennsylvania, 102.
South Carolina, non-English immigra- tion into, 97; number of emigrants from, 94, 95, 96.
Southwest Company, activity of, 22- 23; Astor's interest in, 23.
Spectator, see Edwardsville Spectator. Speculation, 58; advent of speculators, 92; appealed to early settlers, IO1 ; Birkbeck feared effect of, in Eng- lish settlement, 108; Blenheim a town of, 77; bounty lands used in, 44, 227; Edgar's interest in, 52; en- tered into discussion of change of capital site, 291; extent of, 52-53, 85, 86-87, 73-74, 104; increase ot money fosters, 148; land purchased for, on lower ·Ohio, 50, 52; more land purchased for, than for settlement, 52; Morrison's interest in, 52; pre- ëmption rights perverted in interest of, 48; Prickett's interest in, 287; town of Waterloo in Monroe coun- ty, 79 ; universal interest in land, 152- 157.
Spencer [John C.], member of the committee considering the memorial for statehood, 221; representative from New York, 221.
Sprigg, William, did not recognize right of legislature to regulate
Sprigg (cont.)
courts, 198; friend of Kane, 200; re- fused to hold courts in accordance with United States act, 204, 205.
Stokes precinct, 72.
Standard, Thomas, 176.
Starved Rock, Deschamps' brigade reaches, 33.
Stephenson, Benjamin, 156; advertised merchandise in the Intelligencer, I44; advertises for laborers, 143; comments on the judiciary system, 199; convention delegate from Mad- ison, 256, 280; delegate from Illi- nois territory, 54, 194; from Ken- tucky, 194; held slaves, 84; interested in speculation, 154, 291; leader of the Edwards faction, 194, 291 ; mem- ber of committee of enrollments, 268; opposed changes in slavery article, 280; protests against removal of settlers from improved land, 54; receiver of the land office in Edwardsville, 194; sheriff of Ran- dolph county, 194; transferred land to Edwards in Kaskaskia, 154; voted for proslavery measures in conven- tion, 256. See also "Pope, Messen- ger and Stephenson."
Stratton township, located in Edgar county, 61.
Street, Joseph M., 139, 140; candidate for United States senator, 303; clerk of the courts in Gallatin county, 200; Hardin's political manager, 200; opinion of Kane, 200.
Stuart, Robert, 32; agent of American Fur Company, 24-25; reports on in- fluence of American Fur Company, 24.
Stuart [Alexander], resigned judge- ship, 198.
Stock, extent of raising of, 141-142.
Sturgess, -- , advertised school at Prairie du Rocher, 164-165.
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Superior, Lake, 32; American Fur Company's traders on shores of, 23. Surrey [England], settlers for English settlement from, 109.
Swearingen, -, 154.
Tait [Charles], senator of Georgia, proposed delay till census returns were made, 228.
Talbot [Isham], opinion of, on the educational provision in the Illinois constitution, 229; opposed postpone- ment of passing enabling act, 228; senator from Kentucky, 229.
Talbott, Benjamin, connection of, with the saline, 200.
Tallmadge [James, Jr.], representa- tive from New York, 313; rested op- position to constitution on slavery article, 313-314, 315.
Tamaroa, disappearance of, as dis- tinct tribe, 2.
Taylor [John W.], representative from New York, 226; secures an amend- ment relative to bounty lands, 226- 227.
Tennessee, 102 n, 168; Claiborne of, 221; constitution patterned after that of, 283; non-English immigra- tion into, 97; number of emigrants from, 94, 95, 96; Phillips from, 202; pioneers from, 101; Reynolds lived in, 103.
Tennessee river, 71, 114.
Thomas, Jesse B., candidate for United States senator, 303; established first carding machines, 152 n; friend of Kane, 200; headed movement for division of Indiana, 192; held courts in accordance with United States act, 204; introduced bill for grant for capital site, 310; Jones of Kaskaskia candidate against, as delegate to con- gress in 1808, p. 201 ; Jones of Shaw-
Thomas (cont.)
neetown half brother of, 201 ; leader, with Kane, of the anti-Edwards fac- tion, 201, 291; objected to the au- thority of the legislature over the judges, 198; opposed to speculation, 206, 291; president of convention, 263; represented Dearborn county at Vincennes in 1805, p. 187; secured office of judgeship, 192; senator, 303, 316; signed petition of 1805, p. 189; succeeded Parke as Indiana delegate to congress, 191 ; supporter of Har- din, 200.
Thomas, John, elected treasurer, 305; report of, 310.
Towles [Thomas], held courts in ac- cordance with the United States act, 204; succeeded Griswold as judge, 200.
Trade, American Fur Company con- ducts, 22-35; amount of, at Carmi, 65; articles of French, 90; beginning of, with introduction of eastern man- ufactures, 147; effect of waterways on, 113;
extent of : among pioneers, 131 ; at Kaskaskia, 76; British, with Indians, 9, 11 ;
Indians' dependence on white peo- ple for, 8-9; introduction of more money increases, 147-148; limitations of, 152; merchants advertise for, 144- 146; organization of factory system for Indians, 15-22. See also facto- ries.
Trammil, Philip, 117.
Trimmer, -, discusses plans for set- tlement, 110-III ; led one of Flower's parties, 109; mentioned in Gallatin county census report, 264.
Trinity, foundation of, 73.
Union county, 300; census report from, 318; convention delegates from, voted on antislavery side, 256;
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Union (cont.)
Cox state senator from, 300; descrip- tion and population of, 72-74; Echols and Whiteaker convention delegates from, 280; establishment of, in 1818, p. 220; formed from part of John- son county, 71; Jonesboro county seat of, 72; purchases in, 52; two delegates for the constitutional con- vention apportioned to, 228. See Alexander and Pulaski counties.
Upham, Edward, Crooks gives advice to, 29.
Upper Alton, called "Alton on the river" or Hunterstown, 85; Edwards held land in, 153; in race for capital site, 310; Peck describes, 85.
Vandalia, 61.
Vanorsdal, Simon, advertised lots in Illinoistown, 80.
Varnum, Jacob, comments on British influence on Indians, II; factor at Chicago, II, 17.
Vermilion county, 60; government sur- vey ran near boundary between Ed- gar county and, 42.
Vermilion river, 37, 38, 40, 43; land ceded on, 39.
Vermont, Flagg from, 129; number of emigrants from, 94.
Vienna, made county seat of Johnson county, 71.
Vienna precinct, 71.
Village prairie, location of English set- tlement on, III. .
Vincennes (Post Vincents, Saint Vin- cents), 38, 40, 50, 61, 176, 181, 183; advantage of an east and west divi- sion to, 188; agency of Indian depart- ment at, 12; convention held at, in 1802 petitioning for the suspen- sion of the slavery article, 185; dis-
Vincennes (cont.)
tance of Kaskaskia from, 76; Fos- ter in, 305; French crossed Wabash from, 63, 89; government survey ran through tract of, 42; Hill's Ferry lo- cated on road from, 288; Kaskaskia ceded land at, in 1803, p. 37; Kaskas- kia on road from, 8, 115; land office at, 44; Law from, 296 n; mail route established from, to St. Louis, 126; Parke from, 187; preëmption rights in district of, 48-49; representatives assembled at, to elect delegate to con- gress and councilors, 187; road to St. Louis, 57, 62, 63, 82, 114-115, 119, 146, 240, 289; seat of government of Knox county in 1788, p. 183.
Virginia, 103, 134, 168, 235, 238; Bar- bour senator from, 228; ceded claims to Illinois country to federal gov- ernment, 181; Coles from, 242; emi- gration from, 92; Illinois country or- ganized as county of, 181; Lemen from, 319; non-English immigration into, 97; number of emigrants from, 94, 95, 96.
Wabash county, extent of settlement in, 63; formed from part of Ed- wards, 62.
Wabash river, 10, 32, 37, 40, 60, 62, 71, 89, 106, 126, 149, 176, 264, 288, 305; American Fur Company traded along, 24; boundary established by the ordinance, 183; choice sites on, bought up, 105; extent of settle- ment along, 58, 61, 63, 65; fur trade region in valley of, 25; Hubbard vis- its, 34; influence of, on transporta- tion, 113; land ceded on, 39; number of American Fur Company em- ployees engaged on, 27; Palmyra located on, 64; part of Foster's cir- cuit, 305; Randolph and St. Clair counties extended to, in 1801, p. 183 n; steamboat activity on, 114; settlement extended up, 38.
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Walker, Jesse, account of one of the circuits of, 175-179; influence of, in the Methodist church, 175.
Walnut Hill, 63.
Wanborough, III, 126; founding of, TIO.
Warnock, John, appointed judge of western circuit, 305; candidate for associate judge, 305.
War of 1812, p. 38, 68; activity of fur traders against Americans in, II ; attitude of French-Canadians dur- ing, 16; bounty land reserved to sol- diers of, 43; British influence with Indians during, 9-10; emigration re- tarded by, 93; Fort Dearborn de- stroyed during, 12; fur traders sid- ing with British in, II n; location of trading houses before, 17; Northwest and Southwest companies controlled trade at close of, 22 ; settlement pro- gressed after, 61, 62, 63, 147; sur- veys proceeded quickly after, 42.
Washington [D. C.], 53, 76, 172, 202, 209, 214, 220, 309, 310, 320.
Washington county, 62, 281, 289; Bank- son convention delegate from, 280; census commissioner appointed in, 238; census report of, 240, 264, 318; Covington county seat of, 81, 287; delegates from, admitted to the con- vention, 263; establishment of, in 1818, p. 220; extent of settlement in, 81; formation of, from St. Clair, 81; McLean carried, in con- gressional election, 298; one senator apportioned to, 285; opposed to slavery, 261; organization of, 81; two delegates for the constitutional convention apportioned to, 228.
Waterloo, located in Johnson county, 71.
Waterloo, foundation of, 78-79; located in Monroe county, 71 n, 78, 79 ; pres- ent county seat of Monroe, 78.
Watson, James, carried mail and pas- sengers from Kaskaskia to St. Louis, I27-128.
Watts, Benjamin, opposed slavery, 261 n.
Wayne county, Illinois : extent of set- tlement in, 64; formed from part of Edwards, 62.
Indiana: 167.
Wayne, Fort, agency of Indian depart- ment at, 12; Indians define limits of grant of land surrendered at Green- ville at, 37; military establishment at, 12.
Welsh, number of, in territory, 97.
West [Hezekiah], convention delegate from Johnson, 280; voted against changes in slavery article, 280.
Western Intelligencer, 86, 117, 118, 124, 127, 128, 142, 144, 148, 150-151, 153, 154, 157, 166, 203 n, 205, 208, 209, 210, 212, 217, 217 n, 220-221, 222, 225, 227, 231, 234, 237, 239, 240, 241, 242, 247, 248, 249, 255, 258, 260, 262, 272, 277, 288, 292, 294, 296, 297, 298, 304, 308; name changed to Illinois Intel- ligencer, 172, 232; printed territorial and federal laws and proclamations, 172-173. See also contributions by "Agis," "Anticipator," "Aristides," "Candor," "Caution," "A Citizen," "Common Sense," "Erin," "A friend to an able judiciary," "A foe to re- ligious tyranny," "A friend to en- quiry," "A friend to equal justice," "Independence," "Nemo," "An old farmer," "One of the people," "Pa- cificus," "The people," "Prudence," "A republican."
Whiteaker [John], convention delegate from Union, 280; voted against changes in slavery article, 280.
White, Benjamin, commissioner at Carmi, 143.
White, Leonard, 161, 290; agent at the Shawneetown saline, 200; candidate
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White (cont.)
for United States senator, 303 ; chair- man of committee to frame con- stitution, 265; commissioner at Carmi, 143; convention delegate from Gallatin, 280; interested in speculation, 291 ; member of the Ed- wards faction, 201, 291; proposed section for slavery article, 280-281 ; urged moving the capital to Pope's Bluff, 289; voted for changes in slav- ery article, 280.
White county, 69, 281; Carmi county seat of, 65; census report from, 318; description and population of, 64-65; establishment of, 220; Hargrave rep- resentative from, 203n, 300; McHenry and Hargrave convention delegates from, 280; McLean expected to beat Bond in, 295; one senator apportioned to, 285; Rey- nolds carried, in election for lieuten- ant governor, 300; two delegates for the constitutional convention appor- tioned to, 228. See Hamilton county.
White river, 176.
Whitesides, Jacob, 175.
Whiteside, William B., 156; appointed colonel of the militia, 202; opposed slavery, 261 n.
Whitman [Ezekiel], member of the committee considering the memorial for statehood, 221; representative from Massachusetts, 221.
Whitney, J. W., candidate for asso- ciate judge, 305.
Will, Conrad, convention delegate from Jackson, 257, 280; leading rep- resentative of Germans, 102; owned salt works in Brownsville, 74; voted for changes in slavery article, 280.
Williamson county, formed from part of Franklin county, 71.
Wilson, William, candidate for asso- ciate judge, 305; clerk and recorder of Jackson county, 305. .
Winnebago, 38; British presents dis- tributed to, 10; cede land, 40; hostil- ity of, due to British influence, 16; location of, 2, 3; origin of Dakota stock, 3; population of, 3.
Wisconsin, 38; attempts to restore ordinance boundary, 226 n; Winne- bago located in, 2.
Wisconsin river, 10; American Fur Company's traders in valley of, 23; Fort Crawford located on, 240.
Wood river, 85, 128; road to mouth of, 114; settlements along, 84.
Yale, Kane educated at, 200. York, 58; mail route to, 126.
Young, -, 119.
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