9 Thwaites, “Early Western Travels,” I., 141, reprint of Croghan’s Jour. 10 “Chicago Hist. Soc. Coll.,” IV., 165; “Ind. Hist Soc. Pub.,” II., 513-4. 11 “Public Lands,” I., 10. 12 Two of the many maps illustrating this are in “Pub. Lands,” II., facing 183, 195. A number of maps in Hopkins’, “The Home Lots of the Early Settlers of the Providence Plantations,” especially the one following page 17, show that the same form of holdings existed in Providence, R. I. For reasons for this form, see the note by Emma Helen Blair, in Thwaites’, “Jesuit Relations,” IV., 268-9. Stiles, “Ancient Windsor,” I., 149, has a map showing such holdings in Windsor, Conn., 1633-1650. 13 Monroe, “Writings,” I., 117; “Ind. Hist. Soc. Pub.,” II., 483-92; Hutchins, “Topographical Desc. of Va.,” map facing 41; Collot, “A Journey in N. A.,” I., 239-42, describes the roads in Illinois in 1796, and plate 28 of the accompanying atlas gives an excellent map, _q. v._ in pocket. 14 “Draper Coll., Ill. MSS.,” 99. 15 Harmar to Sec. of War from Fort Harmar, Nov. 24, 1787—“St. Clair Papers,” II., 30-1. 16 Collot, “A Journey in N. A.,” I., 233. 17 At the November session of 1738, Virginia had formed the County of Augusta, which technically included the Illinois country—“Hening’s Statutes,” V., 78-80. For a map, see Waddell, “Annals of Augusta Co., Va.,” frontispiece. 18 “Hening’s Statutes,” IX., 117, 552-5; V., 489, 491. 19 Henry, “Life of Patrick Henry,” III., 209-18. 20 “Cal. of Va. State Papers,” I., 312-14. Col. John Todd, jr., was born March 27, 1750, in Pennsylvania. He was well educated by his uncle in Virginia, in which state young Todd practised law for some years. In 1775, he was one of the representatives chosen at the call of the proprietors of Transylvania to form an ultra-constitutional government for that new settlement. In 1777, he was one of the first two burgesses from the county of Kentucky. He was killed at the Battle of the Blue Licks, August 19, 1782. For biographical sketches see John Mason Brown, “Oration at the Centennial of the Battle of the Blue Licks,” 27-31; “Chicago Hist. Soc. Coll.,” IV., 285-8; Green, “Historic Families of Ky.,” 211; White, “Descendants of John Walker,” 56; “Filson Club Pub.” VI., 27-8; Morehead, “Settlement of Ky.,” 174. Morehead’s facts were from R. Wickliffe, Todd’s son-in-law, but this fact loses its significance from the circumstance that Todd’s only living child was of posthumous birth. 21 Henry, “Life of Patrick Henry,” III., 216-18. _ 22 Ibid._, 237. 23 “Draper Coll., Clark MSS.,” XLIX., 43, original MS. in French. 24 “Chicago Hist. Soc. Coll.,” IV., 295. 25 “Chicago Hist. Soc. Coll.,” IV., 294-6, 418; “Mich. Pioneer Coll.,” IX., 498.