ringfield, 205, 206.

Enos, _Maj.-Gen._ Roger, 206.

Ernst, Ferdinand, mention, 167.

Extinguishment of Indian land titles, 77, 79, 81, 109, 144, 146.

F

Falls of Ohio, 30, 64, 65, 160, 162.
_See also_ Ft. Harmar;
_also_ Shipping-port.

Farming methods 168.

Federal Government owns land, 158.

Fencing, 165 n., 169.

Ferguson, Thomas, leg. coun., 13.

Ferries, 83, 114, 152.

Fever, 95.
_See also under_ Health.

Fever river, 134;
lead mines at, 150.

Financial panic, 1819, 188-189.

Fisher, _Dr._ George, rep., 113.

Fisher, Myers, mention, 195.

Flat-boats, 94, 124, 125, 129, 154, 160.
_See also_ Arks.

Flax, 129.

Florida, Province of, 71.

Flour, price of, 49, 50, 94, 163, 164.

Flour-mills, 167;
built by John Edgar, 193.

Flower, George, 124.
_See also_ English Settlement.

Food, scarcity, 21-23, 25, 28, 30;
supply of, 133.
_See also under_ names of food products.

Fort Chartres, cannon from, 108;
inhabitants, 12.

Fort Dearborn, massacre at, 109;
mention, 190.

Fort Edwards, terminus of mail route, 151.

Fort Harmar, 64.

Fort Jefferson, 24, 25, 30.

Fort La Motte, mention, 107.

Fort Massac, 73, 79, 95, 107.

Fort Nelson, mention, 32.

Fort Russell, established, 108.

Fort Stanwix, mention, 56.

Fort Wayne, Treaty of, 79.

Fox Indians, 33, 81.

Fox river, first flour-mill on, 167.

Franklin, Benjamin, mention, 34, 195.

_Fredonian_, mention, 197.

Free masons, organized, 194

Freehold qualifications, 77, 112, 113.

Freeholders, housekeepers privileged as, 147.

Freight charges, 94, 124, 160 _et seq._

French, Augustus C., 145.

French settlers, attitude toward Americans, 47-49;
land holdings 13, 18, 99;
misled by La Balme, 34;
offered free land by Spanish, 55;
priests, emigrate from Illinois co., 68;
towns, character of, 11.

French-Swiss from Lord Selkirk's colony reach Galena, 172.

Frontier, The, 48, 91, 100, 147, 206;
Carlyle eastern limit of, 107.

Frontiersman, analysis of character of, 191, 201, 202.

Fruit, 129, 133, 168.

Fuel, scarcity of, 131.

Fulton county separated from Madison, 188.

Fur trade, 96.
_See also_ American Fur Company.

Furs, 130.

G

Gage, _Gen._ Thomas, 10.

Galena, 150-53; lead-mining, 172.

Gallatin county, saline, 170;
slaves in, 180.

Game, 14, 51, 132.

Gamelin, Antoine, clerk of District Court, Post Vincennes, 60.

George, _Capt._ Robert, mention,