, 489, 491.

19 Henry, "Life of Patrick Henry," III., 209-18.

20 "Cal. of Va. State Papers," I., 312-14.

Col. John Todd, jr., was born March 27, 1750, in Pennsylvania. He
was well educated by his uncle in Virginia, in which state young
Todd practised law for some years. In 1775, he was one of the
representatives chosen at the call of the proprietors of
Transylvania to form an ultra-constitutional government for that new
settlement. In 1777, he was one of the first two burgesses from the
county of Kentucky. He was killed at the Battle of the Blue Licks,
August 19, 1782. For biographical sketches see John Mason Brown,
"Oration at the Centennial of the Battle of the Blue Licks," 27-31;
"Chicago Hist. Soc. Coll.," IV., 285-8; Green, "Historic Families of
Ky.," 211; White, "Descendants of John Walker," 56; "Filson Club
Pub." VI., 27-8; Morehead, "Settlement of Ky.," 174. Morehead's
facts were from R. Wickliffe, Todd's son-in-law, but this fact loses
its significance from the circumstance that Todd's only living child
was of posthumous birth.

21 Henry, "Life of Patrick Henry," III., 216-18.

_ 22 Ibid._, 237.

23 "Draper Coll., Clark MSS.," XLIX., 43, original MS. in French.

24 "Chicago Hist. Soc. Coll.," IV., 295.

25 "Chicago Hist. Soc. Coll.," IV., 294-6, 418; "Mich. Pioneer Coll.,"
IX., 498.

A Mr. Winston, probably Richard, was in Illinois in 1770, and was
regarded as an authority on the prices of cattle, as is shown by the
court records. In 1773, upon the occasion of the purchase of land
from the Kaskaskia Indians, by the Illinois Land Company, Richard
Winston was at Kaskaskia, and interpreted in French to the
illiterate Indian interpreter of His Majesty what the company
desired to say to the Indians--"Chicago Hist. Soc. Coll.," IV., 435;
"An Account of the Proceedings of the Ill. and Ouabache Land
Companies," 1796, 14. Richard Winston was one of the original
Indiana Company--"Cal. of Va. State Papers," VI., 18, 35.

26 "Hening's Statutes," X., 26, 32, 43, 161.

27 "Chicago Hist. Soc. Coll.," IV., 301; "Pub. Lands," I., 16.

28 Todd to Winston, June 15, 1779--"Chicago Hist. Soc. Coll.," IV., 302;
Todd to Judges at Kaskaskia, July 31, 1779--_Ibid._, 304; McCarty to
Todd, from Cahokia, July 18, 1779--"Draper Col