1808, 75. 1809, 82. 1810, 85. 1811, 80. 1812, 75. 1813, 75. 1814, 70. 1815, 100. 1816, 124. 1817, 130. 1818, 125. 1819, 167. 1820, 160. 1821, 180. 1822, 210. In Ga. 1811, 20, 1821, 45. In Tenn. 1811, 3., 1821, 20. 290 “Statutes at Large,” S. C., VII., 451-66; “Laws of Tenn., revision of 1831,” I., 314-30; “Acts of 1818,” Ky., 623, 787; “Acts of 1815,” Ky., Feb. 8, 1815. 291 J. L. Watkins, in “U. S. Dept. of Agric., Div. of Statistics, Misc. Ser., Bulletin No. 9,” p. 8. 292 “National Intelligencer,” Washington, D. C., Apr. 18, 1812. 293 “Rambler in N. A.,” I., 104-11; “Am. Register,” II., 1817, 202-3. 294 “Memoir of John Mason Peck,” 81. 295 “Autobiography of Peter Cartwright,” 156. 296 Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, from England, founded in 1817, in Edwards County, Illinois, what was the most famous of the English settlements in Illinois. Birkbeck was an educated man and his writings are among the important sources for the early history of Illinois. He was at one time Secretary of State of Illinois. George Flower became the historian of the settlement. 297 Birkbeck, “Letters from Ill.,” 56. 298 Flower, “Hist. of the Eng. Settlement in Edwards Co., Ill.,” “Chicago Hist. Soc. Coll.,” I., 95-99. 299 “Memoir of John Mason Peck,” 71, 74. _ 300 Ibid._, 74-81. The disparity in dates in the latter part of the quotation suggests that “23d of October” should probably read “3d of October.” 301 Fearon, “Sketches of America,” 258; William Tell Harris, “Remarks Made During a Tour through the U. S. of America in the Years 1817, 1818, 1819.” 302 Birkbeck, “Journey from Va. to Ill.,” 1817, 128. 303 Fearon, “Sketches of Am.,” 1817, 260. In Fearon’s work 2_s._ 3_d._ is equal to 50 cents, p. 5. 304 Kingdom, “Am. and the British Colonies,” 2. 305 Hecke, “Reise durch die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika,” 1818-19, I., 34. 306 Warden, “Acct. of the U. S. of N. A.,” 1819, III., 62. 307 “State Papers,” 13th Cong., 3d Sess. 308 “State Papers,” 14th Cong., 2d Sess., II., folio. Another volume with the same number is a quarto. _ 309 Ibid._, 14th Cong., 2d Sess., I. 310 Ross, “Early Pioneers and Pioneer Events,” 65. 311 Kingston, “Early Western Days,” in “Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll.,” VII., 313. 312 Shaw, “Personal Narrative,” in “Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll.,” II., 225. 313 Fearon, “Sketches of Am.,” 1817, 258; Brown, “Western Gazetteer; or, Emigrant’s Directory,” 1817, 20. 314 Birkbeck, “Journey from Va. to Ill.,” 1817, 137. 315 Burnham in “Pub. of the Ill. State Hist. Lib.,” No. VIII., 181. 316 Harding, “Tour through the Western Country,” 8. This passage is practically plagiarized in Ogden, “Letters from the West,” and in Thwaites, “Early Western Travels,” XIX., 56.