Van Zandt, Nicholas Biddle. A full Description of the Soil, Water, Timber, and Prairies of each Lot, or quarter Section of the Military Lands between the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. Washington City: P. Force, 1818. 8vo. 127 pp.
Rare and valuable. Pages 109-25 contain a venomous account of Birkbeck's settlement in Illinois. In Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society.
Vermont. Records of the Council of Safety and Governor and Council of the State of Vermont, to which are prefixed the Records of the general Conventions from July, 1775, to December, 1777. Montpelier: J. & J. M. Poland, 1873-80. 8 vols.
Vol. VI., 431-2 contains remarks of Governor Galusha on the scarcity of food in 1816.
Virginia Patriot and Richmond mercantile Advertiser. Richmond, Va., Apr.-Dec., 1816. In Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society.
Sept. 7, 11, 21, 1816, tell of the cold in New England and the drought in the South.
Volney, Constantin François Chasse-bœuf. A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America: with supplementary Remarks upon Florida; on the French Colonies on the Mississippi and Ohio, and in Canada; and on the aboriginal Tribes of America. Philadelphia, 1804. London, 1804. xxv. + 446 pp.
Translated by C. B. Brown. The author gives a moderately full description of the Illinois of the close of the 18th century. Valuable for characterization of the inhabitants.
Washburne, Elihu Benjamin. Sketch of Edward Coles, second Governor of Illinois, and of the slavery Struggle of 1823-4. Prepared for the Chicago Historical Society. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1882. 253 pp.
Indispensable for a specialist in this period of Illinois history. Well written. Quotes many letters.