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Arthur Clinton Boggess. The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830
The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830
Table of Contents
Chapter II. The Period of Anarchy in Illinois.73
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
I. Sources
II. Secondary Works
Index
Footnotes
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Arthur Clinton Boggess
Published by Good Press, 2020
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The beginning of operations, in accordance with the acts just cited, was delayed by the fact that the governor and judges, appointed under the Ordinance of 1787, and who alone could institute government under it, did not reach the Illinois country until 1790. In the meantime, anarchy continued. Contemporary accounts give a good idea of the attempts at government during the time, and the fact of their great interest, combined with the fact that most of them are yet unpublished, seems to warrant treatment of the subject at some length.
The court at Kaskaskia met more than a score of times during 1787 and 1788. Its record consists in large part of mere meetings and adjournments. All members of the court were French, while litigants and the single jury recorded were Americans. Jurors from Bellefontaine received forty-five livres each, and those from Prairie du [pg 059] Rocher, twenty-five livres each. This court seems to have been utterly worthless.117 At Vincennes, matters were at least as bad. “It was the most unjust court that could have been invented. If anybody called for a court, the president had 20 livers in peltry; 14 magistrates, each 10 livers; for a room, 10 livers; other small expenses, 10 livers; total in peltry, 180 livers—which is 360 in money. So that a man who had twenty or thirty dollars due, was obliged to pay, if he wanted a court, 180 livers in peltry: This court also never granted an execution, but only took care to have the fees of the court paid. The government of this country has been in the Le Gras and Gamelin family for a long time, to the great dissatisfaction of the people, who presented me a Petition some days ago, wherein they complained of the injustice of their court—in consequence of which, I have dissolved the old court, ordered new magistrates to be elected, and established new regulations for them to go by.”118 Upon the dissolution of the court, Maj. Hamtramck issued the following:
