The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830

by Arthur Clinton Boggess

Mt. Carmel was to be, and now is, on the west bank of the Wabash in what is now Wabash county, Illinois. The articles drawn up by the proprietors and their agent contain curious provisions in regard to the support of church and school. Some Puritanic rules are given. (In Ill. Local Hist. Pam., VII., in Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society.)

Niles' weekly Register, Baltimore.

Of great value for the period 1811-1830. Its notices of foreign immigration are extensive.

Ogden, George W. Letters from the West. New-Bedford: Melcher & Rogers, 1823. 126 pp.

Describes several of the Illinois towns, and characterizes their inhabitants. A part of the work is plagiarized from Harding, Tour through the western Country. Reprinted in Thwaites, Early western Travels, XIX.

Olden Time, I., 1846, 403-15. George Croghan's Journal of his Route.

Interesting sketches of the French.

Owen, A. R. Ums Jahr 1819 und 1829. In Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblätter, Jahrgang 2, Heft 2, pp. 41-43. Chicago: April, 1902.

Not sufficiently definite, reliable, or extensive to be of much value.

Palmer, John. Journal of Travels in the United States of North America and in Lower Canada, performed in the year 1817. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1818. vii. 456 pp.