Frontier and pioneer life -- Illinois -- Sources
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John Montgomery Roberts Diaries
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3157
Abstract
Descriptions of farm life in Tazewell County, Illinois, including discussions of routine farm activities, farming expenses and property valuations, illnesses and medicinal cures, family births and deaths, local events, and weather conditions. Also trip accounts by Roberts and his wives, descriptions of the technical aspects of making lithographic plates and miscellaneous sketches of Robert's home and towns he visited in Illinois.
Dates:
1831-1886
Ninian Edwards letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-401
Abstract
Six letters, Mar. 7, 1813 - Apr. 4, 1814, from Ninian Edwards to Kentucky governor and soldier Isaac Shelby, regarding War of 1812-related Indian attacks in the Illinois Territory and the state of defenses there. 1813 letters discuss mounted volunteer companies raised by Edwards, British intentions regarding the upper Mississippi, Indian attacks on settlers in the U.S. Saline and elsewhere, etc. Warning of an impending Indian-British offensive on Illinois Territory, Edwards' 1814 letters...
Dates:
1813-1814