A History of Southern Illinois a Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress

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This law allowed the settler to select his quarter section or other unit of survey, begin his improvements, and hold the same against the claims of anyone for a limited time. That is, his labor on the unim- proved lands gave him an equity of which he could not be deprived. This law was a very great factor in bringing eastern people where lands were poor and scarce into the rich prairies of Illinois. 2. The modes of travel had greatly improved within the past twenty years. The national road from... the head of navigation on the Potomac over the Alleghanies to the Ohio river had greatly stimulated the move- ment of immigration from the Chesapeake region to the Ohio. On the Ohio there were steamboats in a very early period as early as 1811. The national road and the Ohio river therefore furnished a direct route from the -tidewater region of Virginia to Shawneetown, Cairo, or St. Louis. Thousands of people came in wagons and still others built their own flatboats and floated down the Ohio. 3.

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