Papers in Illinois History And Transactions for the Year volume 23 1917
Papers in Illinois History And Transactions for the Year volume 23 1917
Illinois State Historical Society
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" " Thomas Beard seems to have had no difliculty in becoming ac- quainted and a favorite among the red men. He began the life of a trader among them and continued it for a number of years. There were checkered experiences for these years. Thomas Beard, the squatter, managed to get into his possession some of the land on the river front where their mounds were located, to which he afterwards acquired legal title when the new State disposed of them (begun in 1833), In 1826 his first land entry wa...s made and the real beginning of town building began. Gradually new settlements came into these parts, which in a few years grew more rapidly. A westward trail led through these parts ■\\iiich grew into a busy emigration highway for the country west of the Illinois. The peninsula formed by the Illinois and Mississippi rivers was parcelled out l^y the. Xational Government as botmty land to the soldiers of our second war with England, and has ever since come to be known as "the Military Tract. " There was a rush for it, and the States beyond the Mississippi, viz.
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