A review of the pamphlet here reprinted will be found in the London Quarterly Review, xxvii, p. 71.—Ed.
[56] Monthly Repository, August and October, 1820.—B. Flower.
[57] Captain Jeremiah Birk shared with Daniel Boone and many other pioneers in the Western wilderness, the feeling that life in a settlement was too crowded. Emigrating from Tennessee, he lived with his family alone on the prairies until the arrival of the English settlers. He obtained his title of captain by commanding a company of scouts along the Canadian frontier during the War of 1812-15. Illinois becoming too thickly settled to please him, he soon moved across the Mississippi River.—Ed.
[58] George Shaw (1751-1813), the well-known English naturalist. His great work was General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History (London, 1800-26), which after his death was extended to a total of fourteen volumes.—Ed.
[59] William Flower, second son of Richard, died at Lexington, Kentucky, apparently of heart disease, in the winter of 1818-19. See George Flower's "English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois," in Chicago Historical Society Collections, i, p. 131.—Ed.
[60] Albion was made the county seat of Edwards County in 1821.—Ed.
[61] Flower's Letters from [Lexington and] the Illinois, 1819.—B. Flower.
[62] Flower here refers to the excitement in England in favor of the Queen, upon George IV's attempt to divorce her. See Walpole, History of England, i, pp. 573-606.—Ed.
[63] [See Note A.]—B. Flower.
[64] Socinianism was belief in the tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the trinity and divinity of Christ, affirming that Christ was a man divinely commissioned.—Ed.