Easton, Joseph, emigrant from England, 1633, 203.
Easton, Rufus, founder of Alton, 203; political career, 204.
Edgar, John, career of, 174, 193, 194; correspondence concerning anarchy in Illinois, 67; land holdings of, 10, 101; letter to St. Clair, 85.
Edwards, Ninian, appointed governor of Illinois Territory, 111, 113, 145; in War of 1812, 107, 108; message of 1828, 149; on prices of public lands, 138; political career of, 210; wages offered by, 130.
Edwards county, Birkbeck's settlement in. _See_ English Settlement.
Edwardsville, Bank of, 207; public lands at, 105, 137.
Emigration and immigration, 127, 176 _et seq_.; causes of:--from New England, 120, from the South, 121, 189; cost of, 124; food supply for emigrants, 119, 133; increase, 180; opposition to immigration, 91.
English Settlement, The, 124, 157, 161, 169; cost of transportation to, 100; ships produce to New Orleans 154. _See also_ Birkbeck, Morris; _also_ Flower, George.
Enos, Pascal Paoli, joint proprietor of Springfield, 205, 206.
Extinguishment of Indian land titles, 77, 79, 81, 109, 144, 146.
Falls of Ohio, 30, 64, 65, 160, 162. _See also_ Ft. Harmar; _also_ Shipping-port.
Flat-boats, 94, 124, 125, 129, 154, 160. _See also_ Arks.
Flour-mills, 167; built by John Edgar, 193.
Flower, George, 124. _See also_ English Settlement.
Food, scarcity, 21-23, 25, 28, 30; supply of, 133. _See also under_ names of food products.
Fort Chartres, cannon from, 108; inhabitants, 12.
Fort Dearborn, massacre at, 109; mention, 190.
Fort Edwards, terminus of mail route, 151.
Freeholders, housekeepers privileged as, 147.
French settlers, attitude toward Americans, 47-49; land holdings 13, 18, 99; misled by La Balme, 34; offered free land by Spanish, 55; priests, emigrate from Illinois co., 68; towns, character of, 11.
French-Swiss from Lord Selkirk's colony reach Galena, 172.
Frontier, The, 48, 91, 100, 147, 206; Carlyle eastern limit of, 107.
Frontiersman, analysis of character of, 191, 201, 202.
Fulton county separated from Madison, 188.
Fur trade, 96. _See also_ American Fur Company.
Gallatin county, saline, 170; slaves in, 180.
Gamelin, Antoine, clerk of District Court, Post Vincennes, 60.
Granger, _Postmaster-General_ Gideon, mention, 203.
Great Britain, King's proclamation, 1763, 10.