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[203] Grand Prairie, as described by Peck in his _Gazetteer of Illinois_, was a general term applied to the prairie country between the rivers which flow into the Mississippi and those which empty into the Wabash ”It isar between the creeks and smaller streams The southern points of the Grand prairie are formed in the northeastern parts of Jackson county and extend in a northeastern course between the streah Perry, Washi+ngton, Jefferson, Marion, the eastern part of Fayette, Effinghan and Iroquois counties, where it becomes connected with the prairies that project eastward froest part of the Grand prairie is gently undulatory, but of the southern portion considerable tracts are flat and of rather inferior soil”--ED

[204] Illinoisians--FLAGG

[205] Shelbyville, selected as the seat of Shelby County (1827), was naovernor of Kentucky It is located about thirty-two miles southeast of Decatur, and was incorporated in May, 1839--ED

[206] 1835--FLAGG

[207] Eight families from St Clair County settled (1818) in the vicinity of certain noted perennial springs in the southwestern corner of as later organized into Shelby County For some time the colony was known as Wakefield's Settlement, for Charles Wakefield, who had made the first land entry in the county in 1821 John O Prentis erected the first store there in 1828, and shortly afterwards secured a post-office under the nas--ED

[208] Philosophy, vol i--FLAGG

[209] Sidney Rigdon (1793-1876), after having been a Baptist pastor at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and later associated with the Disciples in Ohio, established a branch of the Mormon church with one hundred members at Kirtland, Ohio Joseph Smith, who had founded the last-named church at Fayette, New York (April 6, 1830), went to Kirtland in February of the following year Aided by Rigdon, Smith atteanized community Mormon tanneries, stores, and other enterprises were built, and the corner-stone of a 40,000 teeed the coanized as the Kirtland Anti-Bankers Co notes to the adon further embarrassed by an accumulation of troubles fled to Jackson County, Missouri, where Oliver Cowdery by the former's order had established the Far West settlement Joseph Se, Illinois, and Brigha one of Smith's chief advisers, and one of the three presidents of the Mormon church at Nauvoo, conize the authority of Young as Smith's successor, and returned to Pennsylvania, but held to the Morranted to the city of Nauvoo by the Illinois state legislature, was repealed The Mormons thereupon selected Utah as the field of their future activity, save that a fewpurposes

Alexander Caow, came to the United States (1809) and joined the Presbyterian church

Refusing to recognize any teachings save those of the Bible, as he understood them, he and his father, Thomas Campbell, were dismissed (1812) and with a few followers formed a temporary union with the Baptist church Disfellowshi+ped in 1827, they organized the Disciples of Christ, popularly known as the Campbellites The son published the _Christian Baptist_, a ed (1830) to the _Millennial Harbinger_ He held several public offices in the state of Virginia, and in 1840 founded Bethany (Virginia) College--ED

[210] Kirtland is now deserted, and the church is occupied for a school--FLAGG

[211] See Woods's _English Prairie_, in our volume x, p 327, note 76--ED

[212] Or ”_beef_”--FLAGG

[213] Salem, the seat of Marion County, was settled about 1823, when the county was organized--ED

[214] Philosophy, b i, chap 1--FLAGG

[215] Mount Vernon, a village seventy-seven miles southeast of St

Louis, was chosen as the seat of justice for Jefferson County, when the latter was organized in 1818--ED

[216] Mud Creek rises in the northwestern part of Perry County, flows through the southwestern part of Washi+ngton and the southeastern part of St Clair counties, and enters the Kaskaskia two miles below Fayetteville

In January, 1827, the state legislature in organizing Perry County appointed a commission to select a seat of justice to be known as Pinckneyville (Pinkneyville), its town site being located and platted in January, 1828--ED