Indians of Illinois after the War of 1812

The Pacification of the Indians of Illinois after the War of 1812, Lizzie M. Brown:

Enroute To Illinois

The Life and Adventures of Capt. Robert W. Andrews, of Sumter, South ..., By Robert W. Andrews:

"...I met Mr Middleton Brooks, who kept the tavern in Statesburg, who offered me three hundred and fifty dollars and expenses to go to Vandalia, in the State of Illinois, for his father. I had then a 'trotting horse,' which I sold and bought one more fitted for the trip. I left my men in charge of my carpentering business, and, on June 5th, 1825, started for Illinois, passing through Camblin and

Salisbury On A North Carolina Map At LOC

Lancaster, South Carolina and Charlottetown and Salsbury, North Carolina, through Brunswick County, across the Blue Ridge mountains, by the Swannana Gap, into Tennesee; passed through that State and Kentucky, to the Ohio river, which I reached at Hudson's Ferry."

Emigrants Circa 1818

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"That although in certain cases such special acts have been made in favor of bodies of foreign emigrants, it has always bee on the ground, and in consideration of a general public benefit accruing.... ." 

Louisiana and Indiana were specifically mentioned.

Boatmen Beware Of Cave-in-Rock

THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE The Story of the Natchez Trace...:

"The Cumberland poured into the Ohio 50 miles below Cave-in-Rock on the Illinois shore, where the worst of the outlaws on the river and the Trace were soon to set up their station for the murder and lot of flatboatmen."

Scarcely Any Taxes - Illinois In 1817

Lincoln-Berry Store In Illinois

Letters from Illinois ...., By *Morris Birkbeck, John Melish:

November, 1817

"...a few miles farther West [in Illinois] opened our way into a country preferable in itself to any we had seen... ".  "...foresee greater than in the state of Ohio, being so much nearer the grand outlet at **New Orleans." 

"...we have no rent, tithe, or poor's rate and scarcely any taxes, perhaps one farthing per acre." 

"Where we are settling, society is yet unborn as it were. It will, as in other places, be made up of such as come...".

*Morris Birkbeck's memorial at FindAGrave.

**After Abraham Lincoln returned from taking a flatboat to New Orleans, he clerked in New Salem for Denton Offutt, the boat's owner. A year later he and William Berry bought an interest in a general store... . (Source)

Bryce's Cross-Roads

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Narrative from Cahaba. A story of captive boys in blue:

"The leading regiment, the One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois, reached the front almost breathless after its five-mile race, and was thrown at once into action without a solitary support, except the handful of Grierson's cavalry, already on the ground. These men had been hotly engaged for four hours, and their ammunition was about exhausted."

"The Ninety-third Indiana arrived on the scene some ten minutes later, having been delayed by the stragglers of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois. Lest I should be misunderstood, let me say that these stragglers were falling behind, not on account of cowardice, but because overcome by heat and fatigue. Even in this breathless condition they were pressing on and doing the best they could to get to the front. A more gallant regiment was never enlisted."

"The Ninety-third Indiana reached the front with only a handful of men... . It was formed on the right of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois, directly at the intersection of ' Brice's Cross-Roads,'... ."

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Henry Hay's "Christmas" Present

Hay's Journal Entry for December 26, 1789, in Fort Wayne:

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James Abbott, the father of Elizabeth (Betsey) Abbott Baby, 1777-1812, "gave" Henry Hay "his daughter Betsy over the bottle."

John Todd At Point Pleasant

Monument At Point Pleasant (West Virginia)

John Todd's Record Book:

"He [John Todd] served as aid to Gen. Lewis at the battle of Point Pleasant and in the campaign of 1774 against the Scioto towns."

George Rogers Clark Contacted Spanish Officials

Portrait - Fort Massac, Illinois, Museum

"Because of the vulnerability of the westernmost part of the United States, George Rogers Clark had also contacted Spanish officials, offering to bring settlers into Spanish territory in return for land."

Sign In New Madrid, Missouri

"Gradually Kentuckians began to cross into Spanish Missouri, quite unaware of the dark and devious schemes that had helped to clear the way."

Daniel Boone's Grave In Frankfort, Kentucky
"...emigrated to Missouri 1799..."

"The confluence of events, including land title disputes...the lure of Missouri (not only [General James] Wilkinson's "whisper" campaign, but the personal attention that the Spanish gave to persuading the Boone family to move there for the prestige of having an American icon in their midst) and the "push" of New Englanders and others crowding Kentucky spaces found members of Daniel Boone's family, including Daniel himself, moving to Missouri." (From Daniel Boone by John Bakeless, 1939).

Chicago's "True Founder" Thomas J. V. Owen

Chicago Blockhouse - Source

"Chicago's true founder, Thomas J. V. Owen: a pleading for truth and for social justice in Chicago history"...:

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Thomas Owen's memorial at FindAGrave.

Alexander Sullivan's Troubles

The Cronin Case, Complete: The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin ..., By Duke Bailie:

"Alexander Sullivan was born (Abt. 1841) in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada.  His father was, at the time, in the English military service, and is now a pensioner of Great Britain.  When yet a youth, Alexander Sullivan went to Detroit, Mich., and found employment...".

Detroit Free Press; Issue Date: Friday, August 22, 1913 Page 1

"Former Detroiter Once Held in Famous Cronin Murder....Body Will Be Buried Beside That of Spouse in Mt. Elliott Cemetery....died Thursday In Chicago at the age of' 60 years. Friday the body will arrive in Detroit and will he laid beside that of his brilliant wife," Mrs. Margaret Buchanan Sullivan...". 

Noted Desperado

Logan Belt was the uncle of my 2nd great-grandfather's (James Johnson) second wife, Nancy (*Mott) Tolbert Gold Johnson.

The life of Logan Belt... [Published 1888]:

"His brother-in-law, Asa *Mott, also cared for and disposed of a great deal of his ill-gotten property."

A Sword Of The Old Frontier

A Sword Of The Old Frontier (text version)

Excerpt from A Sword Of The Old Frontier:

First Western Cavalry

History of the Ninth Regiment Illinois Cavalry Volunteers. Pub. under the auspices of the Historical Committee of the Regiment ..:

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WAR DEPARTMENT, 6th August, 1861.

Captain Albert G. Brackett, of the Second Regiment United States Cavalry, is permitted to go to Illinois, or any other of the Western States, for the purpose of raising a regiment of volunteers to serve during the war. [Signed] SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War. 

"At this early day it was not supposed that much cavalry would be required, and it was understood that this regiment would be the 'First Western Cavalry.' This, however, proved not to be the case, and it was only for a very short time that the regiment was so designated...".

Kaskaskia Prisoners

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"On the Evening of the 4th of July we got within three miles of the Town Kaskaskias, having a River of the same name to cross to the Town. After making ourselves ready for anything that might happen, we marched after night to a Farm that was on the same side of the River about a mile above the Town, took the family Prisoners, and found plenty of Boats to cross In; and in two hours transported ourselves to the other shore with the greatest silence."

Letter From The Carthage Jail

Carthage Jail

Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, wrote to Lawyer Browning from the Carthage Jail
(History of the church):

The Boy Emigrants

Routes Of Others Heading West

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Life Work Of Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond

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Here is more about the Richmond family Cora married into.

An Accidental Interview

William B. Ide [biography below] built a house owned by Mr. Burchard, the uncle of President Rutherford B. Hayes, in Vermont.  That fact was disclosed in "an accidental interview."

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A biographical sketch of the life of William B. Ide (also online here):

William B. Ide worked at the carpenter and joiner's trade with his father a greater part of the time till of age.

"At an accidental interview with President Hayes' uncle Burchard of Fayetteville, Newfane [Vermont], in 1876, the old gentleman, who is quite deaf, inquired of the writer about 'one William B. Ide' said he knew him well some 50 years ago that he built the house in which he (Mr. B.) then lived: and he assured me that Mr. Ide was a good and thorough workman that although his house had stood the test of the Vermont climate...".

British In The Western Country

From The Kentuckians:

Now, where are the British in the western country?  Well, mostly over in the Illinois country.  They've got that fort at Kaskaskia now, and one or two more.  Exactly.  And Hamilton is at Detroit, in charge of them all.  Dave, if we can strike at the Illinois forts, and then drive on Detroit, we shall win our war in the west!