of Ill.," ("Pub. of the Ill. State Hist. Lib.,"
No. III., 118-20); "Statutes at Large," II., 175; "Annals of Cong."
(ed. 1853), 12th Cong., III., 883, 1011, 1015.

231 "State Papers," 15th Cong., 1st Sess., III., No. 61, p. 6; Poore,
"Charters and Constitutions," Pt. I., 436, 438, 445; "Statutes at
Large," III., 318.

232 "Statutes at Large," II., 797.

233 Reynolds, "Illinois--My Own Times," 156.

234 Littell, "Laws of Ky.," I., 430; "Acts of 1811" (Ky.), 213-15; "Acts
of 1816" (Ky.), 107; "Acts of 1817" (Ky.), 326.

235 "Pub. Lands," III., 2.

_ 236 Ibid._, II., 873-4.

237 "Statutes at Large," III., 125.

238 "State Papers," II., 14th Cong., 2d Sess., folio. Other volumes of
the same number and session are quarto.

239 "Statutes at Large," II., 591; III., 113; "Pub. Lands," II., 873-4.

240 Littell, "Laws of Ky.," I., 395-7, 456.

_ 241 Ibid._, I., 430.

242 O'Callaghan, "Doc. Hist. of N. Y.," III., 1069-83, quarto; 649-57,
folio.

243 Agnew, "Settlement and Land Titles of N.-W. Pa.," 118-19. See also
"Jour. of H. of R." (Pa.), 1792-1794, first page of second appendix
to record of 1st Sess. of 3d House; _ibid_., first page of second
appendix to record of 1st Sess. of 4th House; Sergeant, "View of the
Land Laws of Pa., with Notices of Its Early Hist. and Legislation,"
_passim_.

244 Littell, "Laws of Ky.," I., 516.

_ 245 Ibid._, II., 420-2; "Acts of 1811" (Ky.), 213-15; "Acts of 1817"
(Ky.), 554; "Acts of 1819" (Ky.), 832.

246 "Acts of 1816" (Ky.), 107; "Acts of 1817" (Ky.), 326.

247 Phelan, "Hist. of Tenn.," 303. Quoted from Jones, "The Chickasaw
Country Lately Ceded to the U. S." (1819).

248 "Statutes at Large," III., 307; "Pub. Lands," II., 741; III., 1-5,
384-5.

249 Brown, "Western Gazetteer, or Emigrants' Directory" (1817), 33.

250 White, "Descendants of John Walker," 458-9, 461.

251 A land-office was established at Edwardsville by an act of Apr. 29,
1816.

252 "State Papers," No. 52, 15th Cong., 2d Sess., IV. Hundredths of
acres and cents are omitted from the tables. The figures for
Shawneetown cover the periods from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30; those for the
other offices, from Jan. 1 to Aug. 31.

253 "Pub. Lands," III., 405.

254 "Indian Aff.," I., 761-2; "18th An. Rept. of the Bureau of
Ethnology," Pt. 2, 678; Nos. 73