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Title: The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830

Author: Arthur Clinton Boggess

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Language: English

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Chicago Historical Society's Collection.--Vol. V.

The Settlement of Illinois

1778-1830

by Arthur Clinton Boggess, Ph.D.

Professor of History and political Science in Pacific University; a
Director of the Oregon Historical Society; sometime Harrison Scholar in
American History in the University of Pennsylvania; sometime Fellow in
American History in the University of Wisconsin.

Chicago

Published by the society

1908

CONTENTS

Preface.
Chapter I. The County of Illinois.
Chapter II. The Period of Anarchy in Illinois.
Chapter III.
I. The Land and Indian Questions. 1790 to 1809.
II. Government Succeeding the Period of Anarchy, 1790 to 1809.
III. Obstacles to Immigration. 1790 to 1809.
Chapter IV. Illinois During Its Territorial Period. 1809 to 1818.
I. The Land and Indian Questions.
II. Territorial Government of Illinois. 1809 to 1818.
IV. Transportation and Settlement, 1809 to 1818.
IV. Life of the Settlers.
Chapter V. The First Years of Statehood, 1818 to 1830.
The Indian and Land Questions.
The Government and Its Representatives, 1818 to 1830.
Transportation.
Life of the People.
Chapter VI. Slavery in Illinois As Affecting Settlement.
Chapter VII. Successful Frontiersmen.
Works Consulted.
Index.
Footnotes

PREFACE.

In the work here presented, an attempt has been made to apply in the field
of history, the study of types so long in use in biological science. If
the settlement of Illinois had been an isolated historical fact, its
narration would have been too provincial to be seriously considered, but
in man