The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 Part 12

_Illinois Intelligencer. Edwardsville, Ill.: Hooper Warren, ed._, 1826-30.

In St. Louis Mercantile Library.

_Illinois Laws_, 1824-25. 190 pp.

Pages 50-51 give the text of an act to amend an act ent.i.tled "An act respecting free Negroes, Mulattoes, Servants, and Slaves," approved 30th March, 1819.

_Illinois monthly Magazine. Vandalia, Ill.: conducted by James Hall._

Notes on Illinois in Volumes I. and II. (1830-1832) and the History of St.

Louis in Volume II. are of some service. The articles are, however, unsigned, and are of too popular a type to be wholly relied upon.

_Illinois Revised Laws of 1833. Vandalia, Ill.: Greiner & Sherman_, 1833.

677 pp. and index.

Contains the negro codes of 1819 and 1829, respectively.

IMLAY, GILBERT. _A topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America, containing a succinct Account of its Climate, natural History, Population, Agriculture, Manners and Customs. London: J.

Debrett_, 1792. 8vo. xv. + 247 pp. _3d ed._, 1797, enlarged. More valuable.

The best early authority on the subject treated. Not very full in regard to Illinois. Predicts western state-making.

KEATING, WILLIAM H. _Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St.

Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, __ &c., &c., performed in the Year 1823 ... compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Messrs. Say, Keating, and Colhoun. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea_, 1824. 2 vols. 8vo. I., xii. + 439; II., 459 pp. Same, _London: Whittaker_, 1825.

Contains an extremely interesting and important description of Chicago and its vicinity, and in less detail, of northern Illinois.

KINZIE, Mrs. JOHN H. (Juliette A. McGill Kinzie). _Wau-Bun, the __"__Early Day__"__ in the North-West._ New edition with an introduction and notes by Reuben Gold Thwaites. _Chicago: The Caxton Club_, 1901. xxvii. + 451 pp.

This work, which first appeared in 1856, has the best account, not by an eye-witness, of the ma.s.sacre at Fort Dearborn in 1812. Mrs. Helm gives this account.

--_Narrative of the Ma.s.sacre at Chicago, August 15, 1812, and of some preceding Events. Chicago: Ellis & Fergus_, 1844. 34 pp.

A valuable account, written by Mrs. Kinzie from the dictation of her mother-in-law, who was an eye-witness of the ma.s.sacre. Incorporated almost verbatim in Mrs. Kinzie's "Wau-Bun." The edition of 1844 was the first, not the second, as stated in the Chicago Magazine, I., 103, and repeated by Dr. Thwaites.

LAUSSAT, Count. _The military t.i.tle of Louisiana and the Territory of Illinois, dated New Orleans, Jan. 12, 1804, and signed by Count Laussat, Napoleon's Amba.s.sador. It is also the order to Gen. De La.s.sus to deliver the Territory over to Capt. Amos Stoddard, of the U. S. Artillery._

Original ma.n.u.script letter, in French, in the Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, Ill.

LOOMIS, CHESTER A. _The Notes of a Journey to the Great West in 1825._ 28 unnumbered pages, six chapters. Printed without place, name of publisher, or date.

The writer entered Illinois in the present Vermilion county, went south to the Wabash, west to Vandalia, then to Kaskaskia. His observations are acute and readable. Describes Vermilion county salines, Illinois farm products, pioneer homes, and the inconvenience attendant upon traveling on horseback. Bound with other pamphlets in the Champaign (Illinois) Public Library.

--_A Journey on Horseback through the Great West, in 1825. Visiting Alleghany Towns, Olean, Warren, Franklin, Pittsburg, New Lisbon, Elyria, Norfolk, Columbus, Zanesville, Vermilion, Kaskaskia, Vandalia, Sandusky, and many other places. Bath, N. Y.; Plaindealer Press._ 27 unnumbered pages.

The writer was from Rushville, Ontario county, N. Y. Same as the preceding. In library of State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

_McLean County Historical Society, Transactions of the._ Vol. II.

_Bloomington, Ill.: Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co._, 1903. 695 pages.

Some facts of interest concerning the first school in the county, and the early settlers and their manner of living, are given by those old settlers who were chief actors.

_Mandements des eveques de Quebec. Quebec: Imprimerie Generale A. Cote et Cie._, 1887-88. I., (1659-1740), 588; II., (1741-1806), 566; III., (1806-1850), 635; IV., (1850-1870), 794 pp.

A valuable collection of ma.n.u.scripts. They tell of a monopoly on sending missionaries to Illinois, and one letter (II., 205) gives a good idea of the worldliness of the Kaskaskians of 1767. The first two volumes alone concern us.

MASON, EDWARD G. (_Editor_). _Early Chicago and Illinois. Chicago: Fergus Printing Co._, 1890. 521 pp.

This volume is the fourth of the collections of the Chicago Historical Society. It is one of the most valuable collections for the study of early Illinois history. Contains, among other things, Pierre Menard Papers, John Todd Papers, John Todd's Record-Book, Lists of Early Illinois Citizens, and Rocheblave Papers.

MEEKER, Dr. MOSES. _Early History of the Lead Region of Wisconsin. In Wis.

Hist. Coll._, VI., 271-96. _Madison, Wis.: Atwood & Culver, State Printers_, 1872.

Very valuable. Dr. Meeker came to Galena in 1822 and settled there in 1823. The article gives the history of the settlement of the lead region to 1825.

_Michigan pioneer and historical Collections. Lansing, Mich._, 1877-1900.

29 vols.

Valuable for the French and British periods of Illinois history.

_Mount Carmel, Articles of a.s.sociation, for the City of. Chillicothe: John Bailhache_, 1817. 4to. 22 pp.

Mt. Carmel was to be, and now is, on the west bank of the Wabash in what is now Wabash county, Illinois. The articles drawn up by the proprietors and their agent contain curious provisions in regard to the support of church and school. Some Puritanic rules are given. (In _Ill. Local Hist.

Pam._, VII., in Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society.)

_Niles' weekly Register, Baltimore._

Of great value for the period 1811-1830. Its notices of foreign immigration are extensive.

OGDEN, GEORGE W. _Letters from the West. New-Bedford: Melcher & Rogers_, 1823. 126 pp.

Describes several of the Illinois towns, and characterizes their inhabitants. A part of the work is plagiarized from Harding, _Tour through the western Country_. Reprinted in Thwaites, _Early western Travels_, XIX.

_Olden Time_, I., 1846, 403-15. _George Croghan's Journal of his Route._

Interesting sketches of the French.

OWEN, A. R. _Ums Jahr 1819 und 1829._ In _Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblatter_, Jahrgang 2, Heft 2, pp. 41-43. _Chicago: April_, 1902.

Not sufficiently definite, reliable, or extensive to be of much value.

PALMER, JOHN. _Journal of Travels in the United States of North America and in Lower Canada, performed in the year 1817. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones_, 1818. vii. 456 pp.

Pages 411-20 are on Illinois. Too inaccurate to be of great value, although some information in regard to roads may be used. Tells of routes, methods, and cost of travel.

PALMER, JOHN MCCAULEY. _Personal Recollections of John M. Palmer.

Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Co._, 1901. 631 pp.

The writer came to Illinois in 1831, but he had previously lived in Kentucky, and he gives some facts concerning slavery that are of value.