1817, 128.

303 Fearon, "Sketches of Am.," 1817, 260. In Fearon's work 2_s._ 3_d._
is equal to 50 cents, p. 5.

304 Kingdom, "Am. and the British Colonies," 2.

305 Hecke, "Reise durch die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika,"
1818-19, I., 34.

306 Warden, "Acct. of the U. S. of N. A.," 1819, III., 62.

307 "State Papers," 13th Cong., 3d Sess.

308 "State Papers," 14th Cong., 2d Sess., II., folio. Another volume
with the same number is a quarto.

_ 309 Ibid._, 14th Cong., 2d Sess., I.

310 Ross, "Early Pioneers and Pioneer Events," 65.

311 Kingston, "Early Western Days," in "Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll.," VII.,
313.

312 Shaw, "Personal Narrative," in "Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll.," II., 225.

313 Fearon, "Sketches of Am.," 1817, 258; Brown, "Western Gazetteer; or,
Emigrant's Directory," 1817, 20.

314 Birkbeck, "Journey from Va. to Ill.," 1817, 137.

315 Burnham in "Pub. of the Ill. State Hist. Lib.," No. VIII., 181.

316 Harding, "Tour through the Western Country," 8. This passage is
practically plagiarized in Ogden, "Letters from the West," and in
Thwaites, "Early Western Travels," XIX., 56.

317 Palmer, "U. S. and Canada," 1818, 417; "Statutes at Large," II.,
584; "Incidents and Events in the Life of Gurdon Saltonstall
Hubbard," 38.

318 "State Papers," 13th Cong., 3d Sess.

_ 319 Ibid._, 13th Cong., 2d Sess., II.

320 "Autobiography of Peter Cartwright," 178; Birkbeck, "Journey from
Va. to Ill.," 1817, 128.

321 James and Loveless, "Newspapers in Ill. Prior to 1860," "Pub. of the
Ill. State Hist. Lib.," No. I., 41, 42, 64, 73, 74; Palmer, "U. S.
and Canada," 1818, 416.

322 Burnham, "An Early Ill. Newspaper," "Pub. of the Ill. State Hist.
Lib.," No. VIII., 182.

323 Col. Daniel M. Parkison, "Pioneer Life in Wis.," in "Wis. Hist. Soc.
Coll.," II., 326-7, _cf._ "Memoir of John Mason Peck," 76, 87.

324 "Indian Aff.," II., 196-7; "18th An. Rept. of the Bureau of
Ethnology," Pt. 2, 696-9, Plate CXXV.; Dana, "Sketches of Western
Country," 1819, 147. See map of Indian cessions.

325 "State Papers," No. 64, 18th Cong., 2d Sess., IV.

_ 326 Ibid._, No. 118, 19th Cong., 1st Sess., VI.

_ 327 Ibid._, No. 96, 20th Cong., 1st Sess., III.; "Ex. Doc.," No. 140,
20th Cong., 1st Sess., IV.

328 "Senate Doc.," No. 47, 20th Cong., 2d Sess., I.

_ 329 Ibid._, No.