State Historical Society of Wisconsin. _See under_ Wisconsin. Steamboats, first on Ohio and Mississippi, 123; speed and rates of, 160, 162, 163. Stephenson, Benjamin, delegate in Congress, 113. Stuart, _Judge_ Alexander, 111, 113. Stuart, John T., mention, 207. Suffrage, qualifications, 77, 78, 112-14, 117, 147, 148. Sugar, maple, 129. Supreme Court, U. S., decision of, 11. T Talbott, Benjamin, leg. coun., 113. Tallmadge, James, opposes admission of Illinois, 118, 179. Tamarois, Indians, 110. Tardiveau, Bartholomew, 51, 52, 55, 69. Tavern-keepers (housekeepers) given freehold privileges, 147. Tavern-sites, land ceded for, 75, 79. Taxation, in N.-W. terr., 83; of land, 130, 133; of live-stock, 83. Taylor, Zachary, mention, 207. Tazewell, L. W., mention, 209. Tea, price of, 130. Teachers, salaries of, 174. Tennessee, lands sold for taxes, 189. Tennessee wagon, 155. Thomas, _Judge_ Jesse B., signs petition for retention of slavery in Illinois, 111, 178; territorial judge, 113, 145. Timber, want of, 131. Todd, _Col._ John, _Jr._, 15, 16 _et seq._ Toll roads, 157. Tomahawk rights, 51. Trading firms: Baynton, Wharton and Morgan, 10; British Michilimackinac Company, 49. Trammell, Philip, rep., 113. Transportation, cost: _via_ canals, 141; _via_ rivers, 124, 125, 126, 160; improvement in facilities, 157; land, 93, 126, 154-7, 161; water, 83, 92 _et seq._, 114, 126, 129. _See also_ River craft, Wagons. Treaties.—Fort Wayne, 1803, 79; Greenville, 1795, 79; St. Louis, 1804, 81; Spain-U. S., commercial treaty, 73; Vincennes, 1803, 79; 1805, 81. Trottier, F., 36. Turbine wheel, 167. Turner, Frederick Jackson, 5. Turnpike, 93. U United States Supreme Court decision, 11. V Vandalia, mention, 188, 189; land-office at, 207; public lands sold, 137. Vegetables, 168. Vehicles, 152, 155, 156; emigrant wagons, 159, 164; Tennessee wagon, 155. Vermilion saline, 142. Vincennes, accept inducements of Morgan, 63; attack on, 32, 73; court, 17, 59; description of, 13; levy of troops at, 54; treaty, 1803, 79; treaty, 1805, 81. _See also_ Post Vincennes. Virginia, Augusta county, 15; Board of Commissioners for the Settlement of Western Accounts, 42-44; cedes Western lands to the United States, 45, 46; emigration from, to Illinois, 91, 92, 190, 201; legislation for protection of Illinois county, 9; military bounty lands, 46; money, 21, 23, 24. Vote, August 2, 1824, 183; chart of, 184. W Wabash Land Company, 10 _et seq._, 88. Wabash Navigation Company, 200. Wabash river, boundary line, 90, 154; expedition on, 41; landholders on, 10, 87, 88. Wages, 96, 169. Wagons, first, Galena to Chicago, 152. _See also_ Vehicles. War of 1812, 106 _et seq._; mention, 118. Water supply, 86. Wayne county, separated from Illinois, 86. Wea. _See_ Ouia. West, The, Commerce of, 96. _Western Christian Monitor_, mention, 197.