Western frontier. _See_ Frontier; _also_ Wilderness. _Western Intelligencer_, 132. Western Territory, Ordinance for government of, 46. Westward movement, 190. Wharton, ——, member of trading firm, 10. Wheat, price of, 164. Wheeling, _Va._, Committee of Workingmen, 144. Wild animals, 14. Wilderness, description of, 86; mention, 95. _See also_ Frontier. Wilderness Road, 93. Wilkins, John, _British Commandant in Illinois_, 10. Wilkinson, _Gen._ James, 204. Williams, _Maj._, 39. Wilson, Alexander, rep., 113. Winnebago Indians, 135, 151. Winnebago war, 135, 146, 207. Winston, Richard, 17, 18; sheriff at Kaskaskia, 26, 41, 61. Wirt, William, mention, 209. Wisconsin, southern boundary, 150. Wisconsin, State Historical Society of, 11. Wolves, 14; bounty for, 84, 148. Wood, scarcity of retards settlement, 165. Wyllys, _Maj._, 69. Y Yorkshire, _England_, emigrants from, reach Jacksonville, 189. Z Zewapetas, 63. [Illustration: Map of Illinois Country.] FOOTNOTES 1 “Jour. H. of Del.,” Va., Oct. Sess., 1778, 106-7; “Jour. of Senate,” Va., Oct. Sess., 1778, 52. Erroneous statements concerning the time of the formation of the County of Illinois have been made by Winsor, “Westward Movement,” 122; Poole, in Winsor, “Narrative and Crit. Hist. of Am.,” VI., 729; Thwaites, “How George Rogers Clark Won the Northwest,” 64; Boyd, in “Am. Hist. Rev.,” IV., 623; Mason, in “Chicago Hist. Soc. Coll.,” IV., 286; Pirtle, “Clark’s Campaign in the Ill.,” 5; Moore, “The Northwest Under Three Flags,” 220; Wallace, “Hist, of Ill. and La. Under French Rule,” 402; Butler, “Hist. of Ky.,” 1836 ed., 64; and others. Roosevelt’s indefinite statement that the county was formed “in the fall of 1778”—“Winning of the West,” II., 168—is technically correct. Kate Mason Rowland truthfully says—“George Mason,” I., 307, 308—that a committee was ordered to prepare a bill for the formation of the county, on November 19, 1778, and that such a bill was presented on November 30. Butterfield says—“George Rogers Clark’s Conquest of the Ill.,” 681-6—that the Act was passed between the 10th of November and the 12th of December, 1778. It is true that the bill in its final amended form passed both houses on December 9, was signed by the Speaker of the Senate on December 17, and subsequently, if at all, by the Speaker of the House of Delegates. On the 12th of December, Governor Patrick Henry issued three important sets of instructions in accordance with the provisions of the Act creating the County of Illinois. As the signing of the bill by the Speakers was mandatory after its passage, it is easy to understand the issuance of these instructions previous to the signing. It is almost impossible to conceive that Governor Henry,