[175] Flagg makes an error in speaking of Boone's Lick County, since there was none known by that name. He evidently had in mind Warren County, organized in 1833 from the western part of St. Charles County. Boone County created in November, 1820, with its present limits, named in honor of Daniel Boone, is in the fifth tier of counties west from Missouri River.—Ed.
[176] For an account of Daniel Boone and Boone's Lick, see Bradbury's Travels, in our volume v, pp. 43, 52, notes 16, 24, respectively. Daniel Boone arrived at the Femme Osage district in western St. Charles County, in 1798. He died September 26, 1820 (not 1818).—Ed.
[177] There seems to be little or no foundation for this statement. Consult J. B. Patterson, Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk (Boston, 1834), and R. G. Thwaites, "The Story of the Black Hawk War," in Wisconsin Historical Collections, xii, pp. 217-265.—Ed.
[178] For biographical sketch of General William Clark, see Bradbury's Travels, in our volume v, p. 254, note 143.—Ed.
[179] Obed Battius, M.D., is a character in James Fenimore Cooper's novel, The Prairie (1826).—Ed.
[180] An Illinois legislative act approved January 16, 1836, granted to Paris Mason, Alfred Caverly, John Wyatt, and William Craig a charter to construct a railroad from Grafton, in Greene County, to Springfield, by way of Carrollton, Point Pleasant, and Millville, under the title of Mississippi and Springfield Railroad Company. The road was, however, not built.—Ed.
[181] For a description of Macoupin Creek, see ante, p. 226, note 142. Flagg draws his information concerning Macoupin Settlement from Peck, Gazetteer of Illinois. According to the latter the settlement was started by Daniel Allen, and John and Paul Harriford, in December, 1816. As regards Peck's statement that Macoupin Settlement was at the time of its inception the most northern white community in the Territory of Illinois, there is much doubt. Fort Dearborn (Chicago), built in 1804, and evacuated on August 15,1812, was rebuilt by Captain Hezekiah Bradley, who arrived with two companies on July 4, 1816, and a settlement sprang up here at once.—Ed.
[182] The first settler in Carrollton was Thomas Carlin, who arrived in the spring of 1819. In 1821 the place was chosen as the seat of Greene County, and surveyed the same year, although the records were not filed until July 30, 1825. See History of Greene and Jersey Counties, Illinois (Springfield, 1885).—Ed.
[183] Apple Creek, a tributary of Illinois River, flows in a western trend through Greene County.—Ed.
[184] Whitehall, in Greene County, forty-five miles north of Alton, was laid out by David Barrow in 1832. Pottery was first made there in 1835, and has since become an important industry, contributing largely to the rapid progress of which Flagg speaks.—Ed.