. History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws .. . * while he was standing in the street in Kaskaskia,conversing with a lady, he crept up behind him and shot him deadin his tracks. Diiii1:ij) successfully escaped to Texas. RKCTOR AND BARTON. in lbi2 the bloody code a^ain brouijlit two voun; men to thefield of honor. They were Thomas Rector, a sou of Cajjt. Steph
. History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws .. . * while he was standing in the street in Kaskaskia,conversing with a lady, he crept up behind him and shot him deadin his tracks. Diiii1:ij) successfully escaped to Texas. RKCTOR AND BARTON. in lbi2 the bloody code a^ain brouijlit two voun; men to thefield of honor. They were Thomas Rector, a sou of Cajjt. Stephen. L^v ^^ - -^ IIISTORV OF ILLINOIS. 14r5 Rector who bore such a noble part in the war of 1812, and JoshuaBarton. The}- liad espoused the quarrel of older brothers. Theaffair occurred on Bloody Island, in the Mississippi, but in tlu;limits of Illinois. This place was frequented so often by Missou-rians to settle personal difficulties, that it received the name ofBloody Island. Barton fell in this conflici. STRWART AND BENNETT. In 1819 occurred the first duel fought after the admission of theState into the Union. This took place in St. Glair county betweenAlphonso Stewart and William Bennett. It was intended to be asham duel, to turn ridicule against Bennett, the challenging party-Stewart was in the secret but Bennett was left to believe it arealitv. Their ffuns were loaded with blank cartridses. Bennett,suspecting a trick, put a ball into his gun without the knowledgeof his seconds. The word fire was given, and Stewart fellmortally wounded. Bennett made his escape but was subsequentlyc
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