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PARKISON, Col. DANIEL M. _Pioneer Life in Wisconsin._ In _Wis. Hist.

Coll._, II., 326-64. _Madison, Wis.: Calkins & Proudfit_, 1856.

The author came from Tennessee to Madison county, Illinois, in 1817; in 1819, to Sangamon county, Illinois; in 1827, to Galena, Illinois. Gives a valuable statement concerning the feeling of Yankees toward Southerners, tells of the first sermon in Sangamon county, and of the Winnebago war of 1827.

PECK, Rev. JOHN MASON. _A Guide for Emigrants_ (1831), _containing Sketches of Illinois, Missouri, and the adjacent Parts. Boston: Lincoln & Edmands_, 1831. 336 pp.

Contains a great amount of fairly accurate information. Its description of cities is especially useful. Page 184 gives an amusing and instructive ill.u.s.tration of the need of energy and work in even a frontier settlement (1829).

--_Memoir of John Mason Peck, D. D., edited from his Journals and Correspondence. By Rufus Babc.o.c.k. Philadelphia: Am. Baptist Pub. Soc._, 1864. 12mo. 360 pp.

Not in good literary form. Throws much light upon the moral and religious life in Illinois and Missouri from 1817 to 1857.

--_The Religion and Morals of Illinois prior to 1818. In Reynolds, Pioneer History of Illinois_. Pp. 253-275.

The writer came to Illinois before 1818, and knew many of the persons of whom he wrote.

_Pennsylvania Packet and daily Advertiser. Philadelphia_, 1785-89; _Apr._, 1789; _Mar._, 1790; _Apr.-Dec._, 1790. In Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society.

August 23, 1790, the expression of apprehension of the depopulation of the East by emigration to the West is said not to be well founded.

_Peoria County, Illinois, Marriage Licences, 1825-1855._ On file in the court house in Peoria, Ill.

The early names show the French origin of the inhabitants. The absence of clergymen is noticeable.

PIKE, Lieut. ZEBULON MONTGOMERY. _An Account of a Voyage up the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to its Source; made under the Orders of the War Department, by Lieut. Pike, of the U. S. Army, in the Years 1805 and 1806. Compiled from Mr. Pike's Journal._ A 68 page pamphlet without place, publisher, or date.

Locates the largest Sauk village. These reports are of extreme importance.

An edition including the trip of 1807 was issued in 1895 by Harper, F. P., New York. 3 vols. $10.00.

_Pioneer of the Valley of the Mississippi, The. Rock Spring, Ill.: Rev. J.

M. Peck, editor._

Issue of April 24, 1829, in St. Louis Mercantile Library.

PITTMAN, Capt. PHILIP. _The present State of the European Settlements on the Mississippi, with a geographical Description of that River; ill.u.s.trated by Plans and Draughts. London: J. Nourse_, 1770. viii. +99 pp.

8 maps.

Describes the settlements in Illinois and gives a map of the region. Of great value.

Criticism in _Narrative and Critical History of America_, VI., 702.

_Regulators of the Valley._

Charles M. Eames, in his _Historic Morgan and Cla.s.sic Jacksonville_ (1885), says that a vigilance committee with the above t.i.tle was formed in 1821, or thereabouts, to rid the country of horse-thieves and robbers. ”A regular const.i.tution was drawn up and subscribed to, and this paper is still in existence.” C. M. Eames, son of the now deceased author, in a letter of Oct. 7, 1903, said that he had made an unsuccessful search for the ma.n.u.script.

REYNOLDS, JOHN, _My own Times, embracing also, the History of my Life.

Belleville, Ill._, 1855. Reprinted, _Chicago: Fergus Printing Co._, 1879.

iv.+395 pp. $7.50.

Verbose, but has much wheat among the chaff. Covers the period from 1800 to 1853. The first edition is now very rare.