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BRITISH POLICY IN THE ILLINOIS COUNTRY
1763–1768
BY
CLARENCE EDWIN CARTER
A. M., 1906 (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN)
THESIS
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE
DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN HISTORY
IN THE
GRADUATE SCHOOL
OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
1908
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
June 1 1908
THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE THESIS PREPARED UNDER MY SUPERVISION BY
Clarence Edwin Carter, A.M.
ENTITLED British Policy in the Illinois Country, 1763-1768
IS APPROVED BY ME AS FULFILLING THIS PART OF THE REQUIREMENTSFOR THE DEGREE
OF Doctor of Philosophy in History
Evarts B Greene
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF History.
BRITISH POLICY IN THE ILLINOIS COUNTRY
1763-1768
| CHAPTER I.—Introductory Survey. |
| CHAPTER II.—The Occupation of Illinois. |
| CHAPTER III.—Status of the Illinois Country in the Empire. |
| CHAPTER IV.—Trade Conditions in Illinois, 1765-1775. |
| CHAPTER V.—Colonizing schemes in the Illinois. |
| CHAPTER VI.—Events in the Illinois Country, 1765-1768. |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY. |
| FOOTNOTES. |
INTRODUCTORY SURVEY.
In 1763 Great Britain was confronted with the momentous problemof the readjustment of all her colonial relations in order tomeet the new conditions resulting from the peace of Paris, whenimmense areas of territory and savage alien peoples were addedto the empire. The necessity of strengthening the imperialties between the old colonies and the mother country and reorganizingthe new acquisitions came to the forefront at this time andled the government into a course soon to end in the disruption ofthe empire. Certainly not the least of the questions demandingsolution was that of the disposition of the country lying to thewestward of the colonies, including a number of French settlementsand a broad belt of Indian nations. It does not, however, comewithin the proposed limits of this study to discuss all the differentphases of the western policy of England, except in so faras it may be necessary to make more clear her attitude towardsthe French settlements in the Illinois country.
The European situation leading to the Seven Years War, whichended so disastrously to French dominion, is too familiar to needrepetition. That struggle was the culmination of a series of continentaland colonial wars beginning towards the close of theseve