. Hist. Soc. Pub.," II., 505-10.

202 "H. J.," 8th and 9th Cong., 611.

203 "Annals of Cong.," 10th Cong., 1st Sess., 1976, 2067.

_ 204 Ibid._, 10th Cong., 2d Sess., 971-3, 1093; "Stat. at Large," II.,
514-16.

205 "Annals of Cong.," 10th Cong., 2d Sess., 1093-4.

206 "St. Clair Papers," II., 318.

207 Cutler, "Life of Manasseh Cutler," II., 382.

208 " 'Father Clark,' or the Pioneer Preacher," 202; Moses, "Illinois,"
I., 228.

209 "Pub. Lands," I., 256.

210 "Annals of Cong.," 9th Cong., 1st Sess., 469. The land bought in
Kentucky was probably near Eddyville, which the purchaser founded.

211 Littell, "Laws of Ky.," I., 275-7, 687; Speed, "The Wilderness
Road," _passim_.

212 Schultz, "Travels on an Inland Voyage," I., 129-32.

213 "Annals of Cong.," 9th Cong., 1st Sess., 1049. Speech by Matthew
Lyon of Kentucky.

214 Schultz, "Travels on an Inland Voyage," I., 132.

215 For vivid accounts of journeys between the East and Ohio, giving an
excellent idea of the difficulties of transit, in the period
1795-1809, see Cutler, "Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler," 17-22,
38-41, 90-103; also, many passages in Cutler, "Life, Journals and
Corr. of Rev. Manasseh Cutler." A similar journey made in 1790 is
described in "St. Clair Papers," II., 164.

216 Collot, "Journey in N. A.," I., 192-3, 239.

217 " 'Father Clark,' or The Pioneer Preacher," 193.

218 Schultz, "Travels on an Inland Voyage," II., 38.

219 Cuming, "Sketches of a Tour," 245; Schultz, "Travels on an Inland
Voyage," I., 199; Moses, "Illinois," I., 265.

220 "Annals of Cong.," 9th Cong., 1st Sess., 1049. Speech by Matthew
Lyon of Kentucky.

221 "Pub. Lands," I., 69; "Ind. Hist. Soc. Pub.," II., 448.

222 Ethelbert Stewart, "A Few Notes for an Industrial Hist. of Ill.," in
"Pub. No. 8 of the Ill. Hist. Lib.," 120.

223 "Draper Coll., Ill. MSS.," 73, 74. Original accounts of Wm. Biggs,
high sheriff of the county of St. Clair in the N.-W. Ter.

224 Hamilton, "Writings of James Monroe," I., 117.

225 "Statutes at Large," II., 607.

226 "Pub. Lands," II., 123.

227 "Statutes at Large," II., 677; "Pub. Lands," II., 254-5, 257-8,
210-41.

228 "Territorial Records of Ill.," ("Pub. of Ill. State Hist. Lib.," No.
III., 109-10).

229 "Pub. Lands," II., 157-81, 210-41.

230 "Territorial Records