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Illinois river (United States) (search for this): entry illinois
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): entry illinois
Nauvoo (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry illinois
Peoria (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry illinois
Illinois.
The site of the present State was first explored by Marquette and Joliet, French missionaries from Canada, in 1763, who were followed by La Salle and Hennepin.
Twenty years later mission stations were established at Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Peoria; and early in the eighteenth century a French monastery was established at Kaskaskia.
By the treaty of 1763, the Illinois country, as it was called, passed under the jurisdiction of the English.
By the treaty of 1783 it was ceded to the United States, and it formed a part of the Northwest Territory.
The country conquered by General Clarke, in 1778-79, the Virginia Assembly erected into a county, which they called Illinois.
It embraced all
State seal of Illinois. territory north of the Ohio claimed as within the limits of Virginia, and ordered 500 men to be raised for its defence.
In 1809, when the present boundaries of Indiana were defined, Illinois included Wisconsin and a part of Minnesota, and in 1810 contained mor
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry illinois
Wisconsin (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): entry illinois
Kickapoo (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry illinois
La Salle, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry illinois
Illinois.
The site of the present State was first explored by Marquette and Joliet, French missionaries from Canada, in 1763, who were followed by La Salle and Hennepin.
Twenty years later mission stations were established at Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Peoria; and early in the eighteenth century a French monastery was established at Kaskaskia.
By the treaty of 1763, the Illinois country, as it was called, passed under the jurisdiction of the English.
By the treaty of 1783 it was ceded to the United States, and it formed a part of the Northwest Territory.
The country conquered by General Clarke, in 1778-79, the Virginia Assembly erected into a county, which they called Illinois.
It embraced all
State seal of Illinois. territory north of the Ohio claimed as within the limits of Virginia, and ordered 500 men to be raised for its defence.
In 1809, when the present boundaries of Indiana were defined, Illinois included Wisconsin and a part of Minnesota, and in 1810 contained mor
United States (United States) (search for this): entry illinois
Kaskaskia (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry illinois
Illinois.
The site of the present State was first explored by Marquette and Joliet, French missionaries from Canada, in 1763, who were followed by La Salle and Hennepin.
Twenty years later mission stations were established at Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Peoria; and early in the eighteenth century a French monastery was established at Kaskaskia.
By the treaty of 1763, the Illinois country, as it was called, passed under the jurisdiction of the English.
By the treaty of 1783 it was ceded tKaskaskia.
By the treaty of 1763, the Illinois country, as it was called, passed under the jurisdiction of the English.
By the treaty of 1783 it was ceded to the United States, and it formed a part of the Northwest Territory.
The country conquered by General Clarke, in 1778-79, the Virginia Assembly erected into a county, which they called Illinois.
It embraced all
State seal of Illinois. territory north of the Ohio claimed as within the limits of Virginia, and ordered 500 men to be raised for its defence.
In 1809, when the present boundaries of Indiana were defined, Illinois included Wisconsin and a part of Minnesota, and in 1810 contained m