Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . FORT DEARBORN 2D. IN , FROM THE SOUTHWEST. HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS. 247 days of its greatest prosperity, was not less than20,000. Tonty retained his headquarters at FortSt. Louis for eighteen years, during which hemade extensive excursions throughout the proprietorship of the fort was granted tohim in 1690, but, in 1702, it was ordered by theGovernor of Canada to be discontinued on theplea that the charter had been violated. It con-tinued to be used as a trading post, however, aslate as 1718, when it was raided by the Indiansand b
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . FORT DEARBORN 2D. IN , FROM THE SOUTHWEST. HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS. 247 days of its greatest prosperity, was not less than20,000. Tonty retained his headquarters at FortSt. Louis for eighteen years, during which hemade extensive excursions throughout the proprietorship of the fort was granted tohim in 1690, but, in 1702, it was ordered by theGovernor of Canada to be discontinued on theplea that the charter had been violated. It con-tinued to be used as a trading post, however, aslate as 1718, when it was raided by the Indiansand burned. (See La Salle; Tonty; Hennepin,and Starved Rock.) Other explorers who were the contemporariesor early successors of Marquette, Joliet, La Salle,Tonty, Hennepin and their companions in theNorthwest, and many of whom are known to havevisited the Illinois Country, and probably allof whom did so, were Daniel Greysolon du Lhut(called by La Salle, du Luth), a cousin of Tonty,who was the first to reach the Mississippi directlyfrom La
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