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A

HISTORY OF ILLINOIS,

FROM ITS

COMMENCEMENT AS A STATE IN 1818 TO 1847.

CONTAINING A

FULL ACCOUNT OF THE BLACK HAWK WAR, THE RISE, PROGRESS,

AND FALL OF MORMONISM, THE ALTON AND LOVEJOY RIOTS,

AND OTHER IMPORTANT AND INTERESING EVENTS.

BY THE LATE

GOV. THOMAS FORD.

SIXTH THOUSANDTH.

CHICAGO:

PUBLISHED BY S. C. GRIGGS & CO.,

111 LAKE STREET.

NEW YORK: IVISON & PHINNEY

1854.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by

S. C. GRIGGS & CO.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

STEREOTYPED BY

THOMAS B. SMITH,

216 William St.