The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830Boggess, Arthur Clinton
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The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830
Boggess, Arthur Clinton
Illinois -- History -- 1778-1865
HUTCHINS, Capt. THOMAS. _A topographical Description of Virginia,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina, comprehending the Rivers Ohio,
Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, etc.... With a
Plan of the Rapids of the Ohio, a Plan of the several Villages in the
Illinois Country ... and an Appendix containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy’s
Journal up the Illinois River. London: T. Hutchins_, 1778. 8vo. 67 pp.
Valuable for its map of the Illinois country and a description of the
settlements.
ILLINOIS AND WABASH LAND COMPANIES:—
_An Account of the Proceedings of the Illinois and Ouabache Land
Companies, in Pursuance of their Purchases made of the independent
Natives, July 5th, 1773, and 18th October, 1775. Philadelphia: William
Young_, 1796. 55 pp.
_Memorial of the Illinois and Wabash Land Company, 13th January, 1797.
Referred to Mr. Jeremiah Smith, Mr. Kittera, and Mr. Baldwin. Published by
Order of the House of Representatives. Philadelphia: Richard Folwell_, [c.
1797.] 26 pp.
_An Account of the Proceedings of the Illinois and Ouabache Land
Companies, in Pursuance of their Purchases made of the independent
Natives, July 5th, 1773, and 18th October, 1775. Philadelphia: William
Duane_, 1803. 74 pp.
_Memorial of the Illinois and Ouabache Land Companies to the honorable
Congress of the United States. Intended as a full Recapitulation and clear
Statement of the former Addresses, Petitions, __ Memorials, &c., of the
Company; and their short and final Prayer for Redress, without Delay:
presented at the Sessions_, 1802. 20 pp.
_Memorial of the United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies, to the Senate
and House of Representatives of the United States. Baltimore: Joseph
Robinson_, 1816. 48 pp.
_Illinois, House Journal, 1824-25. Vandalia, Ill.: Robert Blackwell &
Co._, 1824. 305 pp.
Contains items on slavery (pp. 13, 151-2), and tells of the election of a
U. S. senator to succeed Ninian Edwards (pp. 38-9).
_Illinois Intelligencer. Edwardsville, Ill.: Hooper Warren, ed._, 1826-30.
In St. Louis Mercantile Library.
_Illinois Laws_, 1824-25. 190 pp.
Pages 50-51 give the text of an act to amend an act entitled “An act
respecting free Negroes, Mulattoes, Servants, and Slaves,” approved 30th
March, 1819.
_Illinois monthly Magazine. Vandalia, Ill.: conducted by James Hall._
Notes on Illinois in Volumes I. and II. (1830-1832) and the History of St.
Louis in Volume II. are of some service. The articles are, however,
unsigned, and are of too popular a type to be wholly relied upon.
_Illinois Revised Laws of 1833. Vandalia, Ill.: Greiner & Sherman_, 1833.
677 pp. and index.
Contains the negro codes of 1819 and 1829, respectively.
IMLAY, GILBERT. _A topographical Description of the Western Territory of
North America, containing a succinct Account of its Climate, natural
History, Population, Agriculture, Manners and Customs. London: J.
Debrett_, 1792. 8vo. xv. + 247 pp. _3d ed._, 1797, enlarged. More
valuable.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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