l improvements, 142;
price of in various states, 103, 104, 105;
proceeds of sales applied to roads and schools, 116;
receipts from sale of, 143;
sales in Illinois, 77, 81, 105, 106, 137, 143;
sales in other states, 103, 104, 144;
tax regulations of, up to 1818, 130.

Public morals, 28, 29.

Publications. _See_ Books, Newspapers.

Q

Quebec, Bishop of, pastoral letter, 1767, 12.

R

Randolphs, The, mention, 209.

Randolph county, formed, 75 n., 83;
slaves in, 180.

Rangers, volunteer for guard service, 108, 109.

Regulators of the Valley, 147.

Religious denominations, 172 _et seq._

Reynolds, _Gov._ John, 145, 196.

Richland Creek, settlement, 78.

River craft, 93, 94, 126, 129.

Riviere du Chemin, fight at, 37.

Roads, 86, 116, 153 _et seq._;
Illinois settlements to Galena, 151;
repairs, 158;
Shawneetown to Birkbeck's settlement, 157;
to Kaskaskia, Cahokia and St. Louis, 101, 102, 157;
Vandalia to Springfield, 157.
_See also under_ Illinois; _also_ Toll roads.

Rock river, 152.

Rock Spring Seminary (Shurtleff College) founded by Baptists in 1827, 174.

Rogers, _Capt._ ----, defense of, 28, 29.

Roosevelt, Theodore, "Winning of the West," 9.

Rush, Benjamin, mention, 195.

S

St. Clair, _Gov._ Arthur, 10, 64;
at Kaskaskia, 69;
establishes counties, 83;
president of Congress, 54.

St. Clair, James, 74.

St. Clair, John Murray, 10, 193.

St. Clair, William, 74.

St. Clair county, divided, 83;
formed, 75 n., 82.

St. Josephs, expedition against, 37, 38.

St. Louis, attacked by British, 33;
population of, 1817, 132;
Treaty of, 1804, 81.

St. Marie, Joseph, goods confiscated by Spanish, 63.

St. Philips, inhabitants of, 12.

St. Pierre, _Father_, leaves Cahokia, 68.

Ste. Genevieve, garrisoned by Spanish, 74.

Saline creek salt works, slave labor at, 117.

Saline river reservation, sale of, 142.

Saline spring in Gallatin county, 170, 171.

Salt, discovered at Carlyle, 1823, 171;
legislation concerning, 101;
prices of, 170 _et seq._;
works, New York, 153.

Sangamon county, emigration to, 1810-1825, 188;
housekeepers as freeholders, 147;
separated from Madison, 188.

Sauk Indians, 33, 81.

Schools, academic, funds given for, 199;
common, established, 173;
early, 173;
land granted for, 116, 141, 142;
teachers, 173, 174.

Scotch-Irish opposed to slavery, 92.

Selkirk, _Lord_, colony, 172.

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