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Note from page 14: 1. Written out by WHH in the form of a letter and signed by McHenry.

Note from page 14: 2. AL's flatboat trip (to New Orleans) with Denton Offutt took place between April and July 1831.

Note from page 14: 3. Township 18 North, Range 8 West of the 3d Principal Meridian lies west of Petersburg on the line between present-day Menard and Cass Counties.

Note from page 15: 4. Elias and Wharton Rector contracted to survey this area in 1822.

Note from page 15: 5. Although a brief campaign against Black Hawk took place in 1831, AL's involvement was in the decisive engagement in the spring and early summer of 1832.

Note from page 16: 6. For another account of this case, see §104.