Shadrach Bond, Md, Dec. 3, 1812-14. Benj. Stephenson, Ky, Nov. 14, 1814-16. Nathan’l Pope, Ky, Dec. 2, 1816-18. Governor. Ninian Edwards, Md., 1809-1818. Officers other than members are added to the above in order to emphasize the southern origin of Illinois territorial officials. New England was not yet a factor in Illinois politics. 272 “Territorial Records of Illinois” (“Pub. of the Ill. Hist. Lib.,” No. III., 62-170). 273 “Laws of Ill. Ter., 1817-18,” pp. 72-82; _Ibid._, 1815-16, p. 44. 274 “Laws of Ill. Ter., 1817-18,” pp. 57-64. 275 “Annals of Cong.,” 15th Cong., 1st Sess., 1677, 1738; “H. J.,” 15th Cong., 1st Sess., 151, 174; Benton, “Abridgment of Debates in Cong.,” VI., 173; “Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll.,” XI., 494-501. 276 “Statutes at Large,” III., 428; “Laws of Ill. Ter.,” 1817-18. pp. 42-5; Dana, “Sketches of Western Country,” 1819, 153; “Niles’ Register,” XIV., 359 (July 18, 1818); Babcock, “Memoir of John Mason Peck,” 99. 277 Poore, “Charters and Constitutions,” Pt. I., 442, 445. Of the members of the Constitutional Convention of Illinois whose nativity has been learned, ten were natives of the South, two were natives of Illinois born of southern parents, two were Irishmen from the South, and five were natives of the North. New England was represented by one man, John Messinger, a son-in-law of Matthew Lyon. 278 “Annals of Cong.,” 15th Cong., 2d Sess., 38, 305-11; “Statutes at Large,” III., 536. 279 “Niles’ Register,” XIII., 1817, 224. 280 Kingdom, “America and the British Colonies,” 1816, 17. 281 Birkbeck, “Journey from Va. to Ill.,” 1817, 25, 29. 282 Wright, “Letters from the West, or, A Caution to Emigrants,” 1818, 1. 283 Harding, “Tour through the Western Country,” 1818-19, 5. 284 “Am. Mag. and Review,” III., 1818, 152; I., 1817, 473. 285 Goodrich, “Recollections of a Life Time,” II., 78 ff.; Birkbeck, “Journey from Va. to Ill.,” 1817, 25; “Va. Patriot,” Sept. 7, 21, 1816; Varney, “A Brief Hist. of Me.,” 239; Abbott, “Hist. of Me.,” 424; Williamson, “Hist. of Me.,” II., 664-6; Sanborn, “Hist. of N. H.,” 265; Whiton, “Hist. of N. H.,” 188; Barstow, “Hist. of N. H.,” 392; Thompson, “Hist. of the State of Vt.,” 1833, 222; same, 1853, Pt. I., 20; Hoskins, “Hist. of the State of Vt.,” 232; Wilbur, “Early Hist. of Vt.,” III., 162-3; Heaton, “Story of Vt.,” 136; Beckley, “Hist. of Vt.,” 171-2; “Gov. and Council-Vt.,” VI., 429-31. 286 “Va. Patriot,” Sept. 11, 1816. 287 White, “Descendants of John Walker,” 425, 453, 461. 288 Bassett, “Anti-Slavery Leaders of N. C.” (J. H. U. Studies, XVI., 267-71). 289 De Bow, “Industrial Resources of the U. S.,” I., 122-3. Millions of pounds of cotton raised in the U. S.: