The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 Part 11

The work is volume I. of the Chicago Historical Society's Collections. The best book on this important episode in immigration to Illinois.

FLOWER, RICHARD. _Letters from Lexington and the Illinois, containing a brief Account of the English Settlement in the latter Territory, and a Refutation of the Misrepresentations of Mr. Cobbett. London: J. Rigdway, 1819._ iv. + 32 pp.

Two letters-one from Lexington and the other from New Albion, Ill. Highly colored.

FORSYTH, Maj. THOMAS, _Indian Agent_. _Journal of a Voyage from St. Louis to the Falls of St. Anthony, in 1819._ In _Wis. Hist. Coll._, VI., 188-215. _Madison, Wis.: Atwood & Culver, State Printers, 1872._

Incidentally the writer gives an account of the atrocities committed in 1812 by Capt. Thomas E. Craig upon the inhabitants of Peoria. Forsyth was an eye-witness of the barbarities described.

_Galena Advertiser. Galena, Ill. Pub. by H. Newhall, Philleo and Co., July 20, 1829-May 24, 1830, and July 20, 1829-May 10, 1830._

July 20, July 27, August 10, Sept. 14, Sept. 21, 1829, have been used. In Library of Chicago Historical Society.

_Galena (Ill.) Weekly Gazette._

The issue for May 2, 1879, contains reminiscences of Mrs. Adile B.

Gratiot, whose husband settled in Galena, Ill., in 1825. This account furnishes a valuable bit of reliable history. It describes Galena, northern Illinois, a Fourth of July celebration (1826), the coming of Lord Selkirk's colonists, and the trouble with the Sauk Indians (1827).

GILLESPIE, Hon. JOSEPH. _Recollections of early Illinois and her noted Men. Fergus hist. Series_, No. 13. 51 pp. _Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1880._

Valuable because of the author's direct knowledge of persons and events.

GOODRICH, SAMUEL GRISWOLD. _Recollections of a Life Time; or, Men and Things I have seen: in a Series of Letters to a Friend, historical, biographical, anecdotal, and descriptive. New York: Miller, Orton & Co., 1857._ 2 vols. 542, 563 pp.

Letter x.x.xIII. describes the emigration from East to West in 1816-17.

GRATIOT, Mrs. ADILE. _In early Illinois (Towns)._

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 trouble with the Winnebago Indians.

HALL, JAMES. _Letters from the West; containing Sketches of Scenery, Manners, and Customs; and Anecdotes connected with the first Settlements of the western Sections of the United States. London: Henry Colburn, 1828._ 16mo. 385 pp.

Verbose, but not without value. One of the twenty-two letters is from Shawneetown and describes the vicinity. Illinois is defended from her foreign detractors. Routes and manner of travel receive much attention.

HAMILTON, HENRY EDWARD. _Incidents and Events in the Life of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, collected from personal Narrations and other Sources, and arranged by his Nephew, Henry E. Hamilton. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1888._ 189 pp.

Very valuable for the history of northern and eastern Illinois from 1818 to the close of the Black Hawk war. Most of the work is autobiographical.

Mr. Hubbard was an employee of the American Fur Company. Later he was in business in Danville and Chicago.

HARDING, BENJAMIN. _A Tour through the Western Country, A. D. 1818 & 1819.

New London: Samuel Green, 1819._ 8vo. 17 pp.

The inducements which Illinois offered to emigrants are described with a degree of sense rarely displayed in the period to which the work belongs by writers of advice to emigrants. The American Bottom and the prairies are described.

HARRIS, WILLIAM TELL. _Remarks made during a Tour through the United States of America, in the Years 1817, 1818, and 1819._

Describes Shawneetown (1818), and speaks of the great number of wagons, horses, and pa.s.sengers which crossed the ferry there.

HECKE, J. VAL. _Reise durch die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1818 und 1819. Nebst einer kurzen Uebersicht der neuesten Ereignisse auf dem Kriegs-Schauplatz in Sud-Amerika und West-Indien.

Berlin: H. Ph. Petri_, 1820-21. 2 vols. 16mo. I., 228; II., xvi. + 326.

pp.

Interesting and incorrect. The author tells well both of what he knows and what he does not know. Tells foreigners how to reach Illinois.

HENRY, WILLIAM WIRT. _Patrick Henry. Life, Correspondence, and Speeches.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons_, 1891. 3 vols. I., 20 + 622; II., 652; III., 672 pp.

The third volume contains instructions issued by Gov. Henry to officers of the County of Illinois, and some correspondence of those officers.

_Historical Register of the United States. Philadelphia: G. Palmer_, 1814-1816.

II., 60-62 (second pagination) gives Capt. Heald's official report of the ma.s.sacre at Fort Dearborn on August 15, 1812.

HODGSON, ADAM. _Remarks during a Journey through North America in the Years 1819-21, in a Series of Letters: with an Appendix, containing an Account of several of the Indian Tribes, and the princ.i.p.al missionary Stations, &c. New York: Samuel Whiting, 1823._ 8vo. iv. + 335 pp.

The author did not visit Illinois, but he gives an interesting criticism of Mr. Birkbeck's venture in Illinois. He conversed with persons who had visited Birkbeck's settlement. Criticism rather unfavorable.

HOLMES, ISAAC. _An Account of the United States of America_, [1823]

_derived from actual Observation, during a Residence of four Years in that Republic: including original Communications. London: Caxton Press_, 1823.

16mo. viii. + 476 pp.

Most of the author's remarks are general. He, however, mentions Birkbeck and advises emigrants to settle in the East rather than to go West as Birkbeck advised.

HULME, THOMAS. _Journal._ In Cobbett, "A Year's Residence in the United States of America," 259-309. 3d ed. _Andover: B. Bensley_, 1828.

The Journal was of a journey through the West in 1817. Birkbeck's settlement and the manner of traveling were described. Some information in regard to prices was given.

HUTCHINS, Capt. THOMAS. _A topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina, comprehending the Rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, etc.... With a Plan of the Rapids of the Ohio, a Plan of the several Villages in the Illinois Country ... and an Appendix containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois River. London: T. Hutchins_, 1778. 8vo. 67 pp.

Valuable for its map of the Illinois country and a description of the settlements.

ILLINOIS AND WABASH LAND COMPANIES:-

_An Account of the Proceedings of the Illinois and Ouabache Land Companies, in Pursuance of their Purchases made of the independent Natives, July 5th, 1773, and 18th October, 1775. Philadelphia: William Young_, 1796. 55 pp.

_Memorial of the Illinois and Wabash Land Company, 13th January, 1797.

Referred to Mr. Jeremiah Smith, Mr. Kittera, and Mr. Baldwin. Published by Order of the House of Representatives. Philadelphia: Richard Folwell_, [c.

1797.] 26 pp.

_An Account of the Proceedings of the Illinois and Ouabache Land Companies, in Pursuance of their Purchases made of the independent Natives, July 5th, 1773, and 18th October, 1775. Philadelphia: William Duane_, 1803. 74 pp.

_Memorial of the Illinois and Ouabache Land Companies to the honorable Congress of the United States. Intended as a full Recapitulation and clear Statement of the former Addresses, Pet.i.tions, __ Memorials, &c., of the Company; and their short and final Prayer for Redress, without Delay: presented at the Sessions_, 1802. 20 pp.

_Memorial of the United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. Baltimore: Joseph Robinson_, 1816. 48 pp.

_Illinois, House Journal, 1824-25. Vandalia, Ill.: Robert Blackwell & Co._, 1824. 305 pp.

Contains items on slavery (pp. 13, 151-2), and tells of the election of a U. S. senator to succeed Ninian Edwards (pp. 38-9).