History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . >o. .( rA HISTORY OF VERMILION COUNTY. BY H. W. BECKWITH. That part of Illinois now known as Vermilion county was orig-inally a portion of New France. It, together with all the immenseterritory lying west of the Alleghanies and north of the Ohio, be-longed, by right of discovery and occupation, to the King of Francefrom the year 1682 to 1763. During t
History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . >o. .( rA HISTORY OF VERMILION COUNTY. BY H. W. BECKWITH. That part of Illinois now known as Vermilion county was orig-inally a portion of New France. It, together with all the immenseterritory lying west of the Alleghanies and north of the Ohio, be-longed, by right of discovery and occupation, to the King of Francefrom the year 1682 to 1763. During this time, for administrativepurposes, New France was divided into two immense districts, theone known as Canada and the other as Louisiana, and at one periodprior to 1745 the division line of the Illinois country began onthe Wabash, at the mouth of the Vermilion River, thence northwestto La Sailed old fort on the Illinois River, a few miles above of this line was Canada ; south of it, and west of the Wabash,was Louisiana. At that time the county seat for that part of Ver-milion county south of the line named was Fort Chartes. North ofthis line the country was governed from the Post of Detroit; and ifa French trader, then living a
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