government of, 46.

Westward movement, 190.

Wharton, ----, member of trading firm, 10.

Wheat, price of, 164.

Wheeling, _Va._, Committee of Workingmen, 144.

Wild animals, 14.

Wilderness, description of, 86;
mention, 95.
_See also_ Frontier.

Wilderness Road, 93.

Wilkins, John, _British Commandant in Illinois_, 10.

Wilkinson, _Gen._ James, 204.

Williams, _Maj._, 39.

Wilson, Alexander, rep., 113.

Winnebago Indians, 135, 151.

Winnebago war, 135, 146, 207.

Winston, Richard, 17, 18;
sheriff at Kaskaskia, 26, 41, 61.

Wirt, William, mention, 209.

Wisconsin, southern boundary, 150.

Wisconsin, State Historical Society of, 11.

Wolves, 14;
bounty for, 84, 148.

Wood, scarcity of retards settlement, 165.

Wyllys, _Maj._, 69.

Y

Yorkshire, _England_, emigrants from, reach Jacksonville, 189.

Z

Zewapetas, 63.

[Illustration: Map of Illinois Country.]

FOOTNOTES

1 "Jour. H. of Del.," Va., Oct. Sess., 1778, 106-7; "Jour. of Senate,"
Va., Oct. Sess., 1778, 52.

Erroneous statements concerning the time of the formation of the
County of Illinois have been made by Winsor, "Westward Movement,"
122; Poole, in Winsor, "Narrative and Crit. Hist. of Am.," VI., 729;
Thwaites, "How George Rogers Clark Won the Northwest," 64; Boyd, in
"Am. Hist. Rev.," IV., 623; Mason, in "Chicago Hist. Soc. Coll.,"
IV., 286; Pirtle, "Clark's Campaign in the Ill.," 5; Moore, "The
Northwest Under Three Flags," 220; Wallace, "Hist, of Ill. and La.
Under French Rule," 402; Butler, "Hist. of Ky.," 1836 ed., 64; and
others. Roosevelt's indefinite statement that the county was formed
"in the fall of 1778"--"Winning of the West," II., 168--is technically
correct. Kate Mason Rowland truthfully says--"George Mason," I., 307,
308--that a committee was ordered to prepare a bill for the formation
of the county, on November 19, 1778, and that such a bill was
presented on November 30. Butterfield says--"George Rogers Clark's
Conquest of the Ill.," 681-6--that the Act was passed between the
10th of November and the 12th of December, 1778. It is true that the
bill in its final amended form passed both houses on December 9, was
signed by the Speaker of the Senate on December 17, and
subsequently, if at all, by the Speaker of the House of Delegates.