Category: History - American
In the work here presented, an attempt has been made to apply in the field of history, the study of types so long in use in biological science. If the settlement of Illinois had been an isolated historical fact, its narration would have been too provincial to be seriously cons...
In the work here presented, an attempt has been made to apply in the field of history, the study of types so long in use in biological science. If the settlement of Illinois had...
5. CHAPTER I. THE COUNTY OF ILLINOIS.An Act for establishing the County of Illinois, and for the more effectual protection and defence thereof, passed both houses of the Virginia legislature on December 9, 1778.(1)...
6. CHAPTER II. THE PERIOD OF ANARCHY IN ILLINOIS.(73)Illinois was practically in a state of anarchy during the time that it was a county of Virginia, and when that county ceased to be, anarchy became technically as well as practic...
7. CHAPTER III.A proclamation issued by Estevan Miro, Governor and Intendant of the Provinces of Louisiana and Florida in 1789, offered to immigrants a liberal donation of land, graduated acco...
8. CHAPTER IV. ILLINOIS DURING ITS TERRITORIAL PERIOD. 1809 TO 1818.Probably nothing affected settlement in Illinois from 1809 to 1818 more profoundly than did changes in the land question, for during this period Congress passed important acts r...
9. CHAPTER V. THE FIRST YEARS OF STATEHOOD, 1818 TO 1830.One of the most important cessions of land in Illinois ever made by the Indians was that made by the Kickapoo in 1819, of the vast region lying north of the parallel of 39—a lit...
10. CHAPTER VI. SLAVERY IN ILLINOIS AS AFFECTING SETTLEMENT.Slavery, as well as indentured servitude, existed in Illinois as late as 1845,(491) and the “Black Laws” of the state were repealed on February 7, 1865.(492) From 1787 until yea...
11. CHAPTER VII. SUCCESSFUL FRONTIERSMEN.The character of the men who succeed in gaining the favor of those among whom they live indicates the character of those whose favor has been gained. Preachers, land dealers, la...
12. Volume II., 202, 203, 216 (1817), tells of improvements in steamboatThe author was one of a commission to treat with the Indians at Prairie du Chien for the cession of the lead region. In 1829 he went from St. Louis to Prairie du Chien. He gives...
13. Letter XXXIII. describes the emigration from East to West in 1816-17.A volume of newspaper clippings in the Library of the Chicago Historical Society. Mrs. Gratiot, who early lived in Galena, gives reminiscences of her life there. Describes the t...
14. book I know of from which to secure a knowledge of life in Illinois fromVAN ZANDT, NICHOLAS BIDDLE. _A full Description of the Soil, Water, Timber, and Prairies of each Lot, or quarter Section of the Military Lands between the Mississippi and Illino...
15. Chapter 12 is on abolition in the South before 1828. The work is helpfulA well-written and valuable book for discovery and conquest, but of little value for a study of mere immigration before 1831. What it has of immigration is almost exclusively co...
16. Volume LI., 92-140 (July, 1840) has an exhaustive review of Peck’sPOST, Rev. T. M. [Author of pp. 93-102.] _Contributions to the ecclesiastical History of Connecticut; prepared under the Direction of the General Association, to commemorate the...