Mississippi river, navigation of, 21; settlement on hindered, 88.
Missouri, population, 82, 181; slavery in, 179, 180.
Monroe, _President_ James, letter to Jefferson, 97; mention, 209.
Montgomery, _Lieut.-Col._ John, 15 _et seq._
Morgan, ----, member of trading company, 10.
Morgan, George, agent of Indiana Company, 56; land frauds, 56, 57.
Morgan county, anti-slavery society, 183; freehold rights to housekeepers, 147; separated from Madison, 188.
Morrison, William, landholdings of, 74, 100, 101.
Mount Carmel, Bank of, 199; donation of land for church and schools, 142; founding of, 196, 198; incorporation, 200.
Negroes, 12, 64; punishment of, 179. _See also_ Slavery.
New Design, founded. 91, 92, 95; mention, 83.
New Madrid (L'Anse a la Graisse), 63 _et seq._
New Orleans, flour market, 193; mention, 26.
Newspapers:-- _Illinois Herald_, 132; _Illinois Intelligencer_, 132, 140; _Kentucky Gazette_, 189; _Louisiana Gazette_, 162; _Shawnee Chief_, 132; _Western Intelligencer_, 132.
North Carolina, route from, to Indiana, 156.
Northwest Territory, bounties in, 84; congressional delegate seated, 76; divided, 76, 84, 85; enters second degree, 75; first sale of public land in, 75; judges, 62; laws, 83, 84; magistrates, 61; mention, 58; taxation, 83.
Ohio, emigration to, 76, 190; population, 91, 181; public land sale, 144.
Ohio river, boundary of Illinois, 10; settlers, 88; settlers northwest of, 18, 19.
Ordinance of 1787, 40; amendments to, 115, 116; anti-slavery article, 176 _et seq._; college township reserved by, 101; effect on Illinois country, 54, 55; violation of, 87.
Ouisconsin (Wisconsin) Territory, Galena claimed by, 150.
Peck, _Rev._ John M., Baptist minister, 124, 125, 192.
Peoria, Indian agent at, 134; mention, 79.
Philips, Joseph, territorial secretary, 113.
Pike county, separated from Madison, 188.
Pope, Nathaniel, and the northern boundary, 115, 116; delegate in Congress, 113.
Population, 1788, 70; 1785-1799, 82; 1801, 88; 1790-1810, 91; 1818, 116; 1812, 113; 1820-1840, 187, 188; French, 1766-1777, 12.
Post Vincennes, court regulations for, 59, 135. _See also_ Vincennes.
Prairie du Rocher, bounty lands, 57; inhabitants, 1766-1777, 12; 1801, 88.
Prairies, 83, 86, 97, 109, 131, 156; fertility of, 165 _et seq._; settlement, 130, 131.