1803. Dec. 20, 1804. March 26, May 14, 1805. Jan. 11, June 11, June, June, June, June, 1806. July 29, Aug. Aug. 21, Sept. Nov. Dec. 6, Dec. 10, Dec. 14, 26, 1807. Jan. 17, Jan. May, 1808. June, 1809. Feb. 17, 1810. July, August, 1811. July, August, Oct. Louisiana given up to the Americans. Territory of Orleans, & District of Upper Louisiana organized. Michigan territory formed. Detroit burned to the ground. Burr visits the west. General Assembly meet in Indiana territory. Tecumthe and the Prophet begin to influence the Indians. Steps taken to make National road. Burr's letter to Wilkinson. Spaniards cross the Sabine. Burr goes west; is at Pittsburgh. Lewis and Clark return from Oregon. Davies tries to arrest Burr. Sebastian found guilty by Kentucky House of Representatives. Burr's boats and stores arrested. Burr meets his men at the mouth of the Cumberland. Burr escapes, is seized, and tried at Richmond in May. Bank of Marietta chartered. Bank of Chillicothe chartered. Tecumthe and the Prophet remove to Tippecanoe. Illinois territory formed. Miami University chartered. Boone's Lick settled. C. Cole and others killed by Indians in Missouri. Company of rangers raised in Illinois. Tecum he goes to the south. Harrison proposes to visit Indians. Harrison marches toward Tippecanoe. First steamer (New Orleans) leaves Pittsburgh for Natchez CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. General Hopkins attacks the Indians on the Wabash. Colonel Campbell attacks the Indians on the Mississinneway. Sends troops to Frenchtown. British at Frenchtown defeated. Americans defeated at Frenchtown, with great loss. Massacre of the wounded. Harrison retreats to Portage river. Victory by Perry, on Lake Erie. Sept. 27, Sept. 29, Oct. 5. 1816. March, 1817. March, Dec. Dec. Dec. 11, Harrison advances to Maumee, and builds Fort Meigs. Fort Meigs besieged. General Green Clay reaches Fort Meigs; Dudley's party lost. British fleet prepare to attack Erie. Fort Stephenson besieged, and bravely defended. American army at Malden. American army at Sandwich. Battle of the Thames, and Tecumthe killed. Holmes's expedition into Canada. J. C. Symmes died. Expedition under Croghan against Mackinac. Fort Shelby, at Prairie du Chien, taken by the British. McArthur's expedition into Canada. Treaty of Ghent. Various treaties with Indians. Ohio taxes the Banks. Pittsburgh incorporated. Columbus made capitol of Ohio. Bank of Shawneetown chartered. General Banking Law of Ohio, passed. First steamboat at St. Louis. September, North-west of Ohio bought of Indians. Jan. & Oct., U. States Bank opens branches in Cincinnati and Chillicothe. 1818. Aug. 26, 1819. September, 1820. December, 1821. Aug. 12, 1822. Jan. 31, Jan. 31, 1823. Feb. 14, 1824. Illinois becomes a State. First steamboats on the Missouri. Military Post established at Council Bluffs. Expodition to the Yellow Stone. The first steamer on Lake Erie. Contest of Ohio and the United States Bank. Missouri forms a Constitution. Cass visits Lake Superior, &c. Missouri received into the Union by proclamation of President. Ohio moves in relation to canals. Ohio moves in relation to schools. 1825. Feb. 4 & 5, Ohio passes canal and school laws. Cholera at Cincinnati and along the Ohio. Governor Edwards died at Belleville, Illinois. Cholera at St. Louis and throughout the Mississippi Valley. Indian treaty at Chicago. Gazetteer of Illinois published at Jacksonville. Termination of various bank charters in Ohio. Michigan forms a Constitution and makes application to join the Union. Congress proposes conditions. State Bank of Illinois chartered. Adopted in a second Convention. Territory of Wisconsin (including Iowa) organized. Michigan received into the Union. Internal Improvement System adopted in Illinois. Riots at Alton, Ill., and Lovejoy killed. State House of Missouri, at Jefferson City, burned. Mormon war in Missouri. Death of Governor William Clark. Bank Commissioners appointed in Ohio. Mormons retreat to flinois, locate at Commerce, and call it Nauvoo. Iowa City located and made the seat of government. Great political excitement in the presidential canvas. Death of W. H. Harrison, President of the United States, at Canal, Internal Improvement System, and Banks in Illinois Great depression in financial affairs throughout the west. Death of General Henry Atkinson at Jefferson Barracks, Mis souri. Death of Hon. Mary P. Leduc, first Secretary of Upper Louisiana, and an old citizen of St. Louis. Death of Hon. A. W. Snyder, Belleville, Ill. Death of Hon. J. B. C. Lucas, at St. Louis, aged 80. Illinois Banks accept of an act by the Legislature and close Corner stone of Cincinnati Observatory laid in November. Great flood on the Mississippi-American Bottom submerged. Mormon war in Illinois; Joseph Smith, the leader, and others killed. State Constitution formed in Iowa; boundaries not approved by Banking law of Ohio creating a State Bank and branches, and Illinois negotiates with bond-holders to finish canal. Convention in Wisconsin form a State Constitution; rejected by the people. Convention in Illinois form a new Constitution. Constitution of Illinois adopted by the people, and went into operation. Wisconsin forms a new Constitution; approved by the people, Cholera on the western rivers, and in many cities and towns. Great Convention in St. Louis on Rail-road to the Pacific. ERRATA. In a book like the "Annals," it is hardly possible, between authors, compositors and proof readers, to avoid some typographical errors. The most frequent that occurs in this work, are misplacing the brackets, intended to distinguish the composition of the Editor from that of Mr. Perkins. Page 29, Nicholas Parrot, should be Perrot. 37, A part of the last paragraph should have been in brackets. 47, The asterisk after "Hidden River," should be out. 66, Read, "all was still wild except those little spots." 70, Third paragraph, read 1752 for 7732. 71, A bracket after second paragraph. 133, The brackets in the middle of the page should be out. 134, Brackets out at close of first paragraph. 142, Third paragraph read "a few days after that in the boat," instead, "after that at Captina." 167, Put a bracket at close of the page. 171, A bracket should be out at the commencement of paragraph second. 187, A bracket should be at close of the chapter. 201, A bracket should be at close of first paragraph. 209, A bracket at close of the page. 509, Chickasaw Bluffs in line 15 from the top, should be Iron Banks situated a few miles below the junction of Ohio and Mississippi rivers. 261, A bracket should follow asterisk, after last paragraph. 311, A bracket after third paragraph. 349, A bracket after third paragraph. 399, A bracket after first paragraph. 447, A bracket after first paragraph. 504, A bracket should be out at first paragraph. 527, The date should be 1803, instead of 1793. 534, A bracket at close of the page. 569, A bracket at the close of last paragraph but one. 570, Bracket should be left out at the end of second paragraph, after "Illinois." 574, 575, The captions over these pages are wrong. "Organization of Illinois Territory," is found on pp. 576, 577. 577, A bracket is wanting at the close of fourth paragraph. "Fort Wayne, August 7, 1818, in some copies should be 1810. 595, The bracket should be left out at the commencement of the paragraph. 602, "Fort Wayne" should read "Sandwich," at the 13th line from bottom. 616, In third paragraph after Cahokia, read Creek. 619, The bracket should be put at the close of the last of last paragraph. 636, The caption is wrong. It belongs to page 633. 643, The bracket at the end of first paragraph, should be left out. 709, 711, and 713. The captions over these pages should be "Sketches of Indian History." 744, "Cape au Gris," should be Cape au Gres. It was so called from the gray rock there. 795, Second paragraph read "Sauteaurs." 796, In third paragraph, read retailed for "retained this story of Black Hawk," ANNALS OF THE WEST. CHAPTER I. SPANISH AND FRENCH DISCOVERIES, A. D. 1512 TO 1750. Discovery of Florida-De Soto's Expedition and Discovery of the Mississippi-Marquette and Joliet's Expedition-Enterprise of La Salle-Visit to Illinois-Fort CrevecoeurHennepin's voyage up the Mississippi-La Salle's Expedition down the Mississippi to the Gulf "Proces Verbal"-Returns to Illinois and starts to France-La Salle returns to the Gulf of Mexico-Discovers and takes possession of Texas-His AssassinationTonti's Achievements-La Hontan-Kaskaskia Founded-D'Ibberville's Voyage-Grant to Crozat-Mississippi Company-New Orleans Founded-The Natchez ExterminationWar with the Chickasaws-Mississippi Valley in 1750. In the year 1512, on Easter Sunday, the Spanish name for which is Pascua Florida,* Juan Ponce de Leon, an old comrade of Columbus, discovered the coast of the American continent, near St. Augustine; and, in honor of the day, as well as because of the blossoms which covered the trees along the shore, named the new-found country Florida. Juan had been led to undertake the discovery of strange lands, partly by the hope, common to all his countrymen at that time, of finding endless stores of gold, and partly by the wish to reach a fountain that was said to exist, deep within the forests of North America, which possessed the power of renovating the life of those who drank of, or bathed in, its waters. In return for his discovery he was made Governor of the region he had visited, but various circumstances prevented his return thither until 1521, and then he went only to meet with death at the hands of the Indians. In the mean time, in 1516, a roving Spanish sea captain, Diego Miruelo, had visited the coast first reached by Ponce de Leon, and in his barters with the natives had received considerable quantities of gold, with which he returned home, and spread abroad new stories of the wealth hidden in the interior. *Pascua, the old English "Pasch" or Passover; "Pascua Florida" is the "Holy-day of Flowers." |