The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830Boggess, Arthur Clinton
History
The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830
Boggess, Arthur Clinton
Illinois -- History -- 1778-1865
134 Inclosed in Hamtramck to Harmar, from Vincennes, Nov. 2,
1789—“Draper Coll., Harmar Papers,” II., 124-7.
135 Offer dated Oct. 3, 1789. Inclosed in Hamtramck to Harmar, Nov. 2,
1789—“Draper Coll., Harmar Papers,” II., 127-8.
136 Hamtramck’s reply of Oct. 14, 1789, to petition of Sept. 14,
preceding, inclosed as above—_Ibid._, II., 128-30; “Draper Coll.,
Harmar Papers,” II., 128-130.
137 Edgar to Hamtramck, from Kaskaskia, Oct. 28, 1789—“Draper Coll.,
Harmar Papers,” II., 132-6.
138 Jones to Hamtramck, from Kaskaskia, Oct. 29, 1789—“Draper Coll.,
Harmar Papers,” II., 136-41.
_ 139 Ibid._, II., 182; “St. Clair Papers,” II., 164.
140 Tardiveau to Hamtramck, from Kaskaskia, Aug. 1, 1790—“Draper Coll.,
Harmar Papers,” II., 302.
141 “St. Clair Papers,” II., 165.
142 Harmar to Hamtramck, Sept. 3, 1790—“Draper Coll., Harmar Papers,”
II., 332.
143 “Jour. of Cong.,” IV., 823.
144 Pittman, “European Settlements on the Miss.,” 55.
145 Hutchins, “Topographical Desc. of Va.” 36-8.
146 “St. Clair Papers,” II. 122-3.
147 “Secret Jour. of Cong.,” IV., 301-29.
148 “St. Clair Papers,” I., 150.
149 “Pub. Lands,” I., 20.
150 “Statutes at Large,” I., 221-2.
151 Hamtramck to Harmar, from Vincennes, Apr. 14, 1791—“Draper Coll.,
Harmar Papers,” II., 410.
152 “Draper MSS., Translation of Spanish Documents,” 49-60.
153 Carondolet to Duke of Alcudia, from New Orleans, Sept. 27,
1793—“Draper MSS., Translation of Spanish Documents.” 24, second
pagination of typewritten matter.
154 Carondolet to ——,—_Ibid._, 33, first pagination of matter in long
hand.
155 “Pub. Lands,” I., 69.
156 “St. Clair Papers,” II., 398-9.
157 John Edgar, for years the wealthiest citizen of Illinois, was born
in Ireland, came to Kaskaskia in 1784, and soon became a large
landholder by purchasing French donation-rights. Wm. Morrison, a
native of Bucks county, Pa., came from Philadelphia to Kaskaskia in
1790 and became a leading merchant and shipper. Wm. St. Clair, a son
of James St. Clair, once captain in the Irish Brigade in the service
of France, was the first clerk of the court of St. Clair county.
John Dumoulin (or De Moulin) was a Swiss. In 1790, he was a judge of
the Court of Common Pleas in the Cahokia district of St. Clair
county.
158 St. Clair county had been formed in 1790 and Randolph county in
1795. In 1796, they were the only counties lying wholly within the
present State of Illinois. A strip of the eastern part of Illinois
lay in Knox county. The line between St. Clair and Randolph was an
east-and-west line, a little south of New Design, Randolph lying to
the south—“St. Clair Papers,” II., 165, 166, 345.
159 “Pub. Lands,” I., 68-9; “Ind. Hist. Soc. Pub.,” II., 447-52, 452-55.
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