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
Cahokia, attacked by British and Indians, 33;
bounty lands, 57;
commons, 72;
court, 17;
distress at, 25;
population, 12.
Cahokia Indians, 53.
Cairo, Bank of, 114;
dykes at, 114.
Calhoun, original name of Springfield, 207.
Calico, price of, 130.
Calvé, ——, trader, 33.
Canadian French settlers, 19.
Canal route ceded, 110.
Carbonneaux, Francis, 42-46.
Carlyle, eastern limit of frontier, 107;
salt discovered, 18, 23, 171.
Carolinas, The, settlers from, 91.
Carondelet, _Baron_ de, orders expulsion of Americans from Ft. Massac, 73.
Cartwright, Peter, journey to Baltimore, 1816, 123;
personal traits, 191, 192;
purchases land, 139;
reasons for moving to Illinois, 166;
representative from Sangamon Co., 191.
Cass, _Gov._ Lewis, averts Indian war, 135;
protects Galena, 150.
Catholicism, slow increase of, 175.
Cattle, allowed to run at large, 20;
raising of, 130.
_See also_ Live-stock.
Census of 1801, 88.
Cessions of land, by Indians, 44, 79-81, maps, 72, 104, 136;
by individuals, 10, 24, 71, 196;
by Virginia to United States, 45, 46;
congressional, 57, 70, 72, 79.
Charleston, _Va._, emigration from to Illinois, 190.
Chicago, in 1830, 190;
massacre at, 109;
platted, 142;
post-office, 151;
route to, 152;
valuable port, 116.
Chicago Historical Society, 5, 11.
Chicago river, Indians cede tract six miles square at, 79.
Chickasaws, allies of Spain, 73.
Chippewa Indians, 134.
Cincinnati, trip from to Illinois, 1823, 154.
Clark, George Rogers, 14, 40, 45 _et seq._;
land granted to, 46;
seizes Spanish goods, 54.
Clay, Henry, mention, 210.
Clergy, 174, 175, 196.
Climate, 95.
Clinton, De Witt, mention, 203.
Coal, in Illinois, 14, 131, 142, 165.
Cobbett, William, 160.
Coffee, price of, 130.
Coles, _Gov._ Edward, character, 210;
emancipates slaves, 209;
governor, 145, 208;
message against slavery, 183;
special envoy to Russia, 209;
urges law to prevent kidnapping, 182.
College township, reserved by Ordinance of 1787, 101, 102.
Colleges, McKendree, 174;
Shurtleff, 174.
Collot, _Gen._ [George Henry] Victor, “Journey in N. A.,” 14, etc.;
Map of the Country of the Illinois, _in pocket_.
Commerce in territorial period, 95, 96, 129.
Committee of Workingmen of Wheeling, _Va._, 144.
Commodities, prices of, 49, 59, 130, 164.
Commons, Cahokia, 72.
Congress, delegate of N. W. Territory in, 76. 77;
donates land, 142;
early Illinoisians in, 146;
memorialized:—by Galena, 150;
by Illinois, 87, 100, 101, 138;
petitioned, 53, 74, 75, 77, 78, 81, 86, 88.
Constitution of Illinois, provisions of, 117.
Constitutional Convention, 1824, 182, 183;
votes for and against, chart of, 184.
Cook, Daniel P., non-resident proprietor of Springfield, 205;
representative in Congress, 145.
Corn, price of, 96, 164.
Cotton, production of, in United States 122, 129;
raised in Illinois, 167, 168.
Counterfeiting, penalty for, 148.
Counties in Illinois, 1824, list of, 183.
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