Drennan, Daniel O. Papers (MS).
Drennan was employed by the Chicago Historical Society to search in the archives of the War Department at Washington for documents pertaining to Chicago and Fort Dearborn. The papers consist of attested copies of several hundred documents, chiefly military orders and communications, covering the years from 1803 to 1836.
Dunn, J. P., Jr. Indiana, a Redemption from Slavery (Boston, 1893).
Edwards, Ninian W. Papers (MS).
Edwards was the first and only territorial governor of Illinois, and later served as governor of the state. His papers, which comprise' four bound volumes of letters and other manuscripts, were presented to the Chicago Historical Society by his son, Ninian Wirt Edwards. They constitute an indispensable source of information for the history of Illinois in the period covered by them. They have been of only minor assistance in the preparation of this work, however, owing to the fact that until practically the close of the period of which it treats Chicago was separated from the settled portion of southern Illinois by a broad expanse of wilderness, and both politically and commercially was much more closely affiliated with Michigan Territory and Detroit. Many of the manuscripts in the collection have been published in Edwards, History of Illinois ... and Life and Times of Ninian Edwards, and Washburne (editor), The Edwards Papers.
Edwards, Ninian W. History of Illinois from 1778 to 1833; and Life and Times of Ninian Edwards (Springfield, Ill., 1870).
Farrand, Livingston. Basis of American History 1500-1900 (New York, 1904).
This constitutes volume II of The American Nation: a History (Albert Bushnell Hart, editor).
Fergus Historical Series.
This consists of thirty-five pamphlets, numbered consecutively, pertaining to the early history of Chicago and Illinois. They were issued by the Fergus Printing Company of Chicago. Those numbers to which reference has been made in the present work are cited under their separate titles.