Pages 50-51 give the text of an act to amend an act entitled “An act respecting free Negroes, Mulattoes, Servants, and Slaves,” approved 30th March, 1819.
Illinois monthly Magazine. Vandalia, Ill.: conducted by James Hall.
Notes on Illinois in Volumes I. and II. (1830-1832) and the History of St. Louis in Volume II. are of some service. The articles are, however, unsigned, and are of too popular a type to be wholly relied upon.
Illinois Revised Laws of 1833. Vandalia, Ill.: Greiner & Sherman, 1833. 677 pp. and index.
Contains the negro codes of 1819 and 1829, respectively.
Imlay, Gilbert. A topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America, containing a succinct Account of its Climate, natural History, Population, Agriculture, Manners and Customs. London: J. Debrett, 1792. 8vo. xv. + 247 pp. 3d ed., 1797, enlarged. More valuable.
The best early authority on the subject treated. Not very full in regard to Illinois. Predicts western state-making.
Keating, William H. Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, [pg 225] &c., &c., performed in the Year 1823 ... compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Messrs. Say, Keating, and Colhoun. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1824. 2 vols. 8vo. I., xii. + 439; II., 459 pp. Same, London: Whittaker, 1825.
Contains an extremely interesting and important description of Chicago and its vicinity, and in less detail, of northern Illinois.
Kinzie, Mrs. John H. (Juliette A. McGill Kinzie). Wau-Bun, the “Early Day” in the North-West. New edition with an introduction and notes by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1901. xxvii. + 451 pp.