Lewis Green migrated to Illinois around 1817. Most of our family moved on to Missouri by 1880.

Aug. 24, 1816 Treaty of St. Louis, negotiated by Ninian Edwards, William Clark, and Auguste Chouteau with the United Tribes of the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatami residing on the Illinois and Weewaukee rivers and Lake Michigan, ceded to the United States lands west of the Illinois River and south of a line from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the mouth of the Rock River previously ceded by the Sauk and Fox tribes; also ceded a strip of land twenty miles wide from the mouth of the Chicago River to the Kankakee and Fox rivers.

Consideration: the United States re-ceded to the United Tribes all land ceded by the Sauk and Fox north of the Lake Michigan-Rock River line; increased the annuity of the three tribes by $1,000 for a period of twelve years; and promised trade goods of an unspecified value to be delivered on the Illinois no farther south than Peoria. (new acres in Illinois, 767,411; receded by the United States, 4,996,000 acres)

Dec. 11, 1816 Enabling act for Indiana statehood defined the Illinois-Indiana boundary.

Apr. 18, 1818 Enabling act for Illinois statehood defined northern boundary as 42 degree 30 minutes latitude.

Sep. 25, 1818 Treaty of Edwardsville, negotiated by Ninian Edwards and Auguste Chouteau with the Peoria, Kaskaskia, Michigamia, Cahokia, and Tamaroa tribes, confirmed the treaty of 1803 made by the Kaskaskia tribe on behalf of the Illinois Indians, and further ceded lands claimed by the Peori north of the original cessions by the Kaskaskia. Consideration: $2,000 in trade goods to be divided amoung the tribes; plus $300 yearly for twelve years to be paid to the Peoria; and 640 acres on the Blackwater River in Missouri where some of the familes resided. (new acres in Illinois, 7,138,398) Note: Kickapoo of the Prairie claimed much of the additional land ceded.

Oct. 2, 1818 Treaty of St. Marys, Ohio, negotiated by Jonathan Jennings and Benjamin Parke with the Potawatami tribe, covered land between Tippecanoe Creek and the Vermillion River in the Wabash Valley. Acreage covered was included in a later treaty with the Kickapoo, who also had rights in the area. Consideration: perpetual annuity of $2,500 in silver plus small grants to individuals. (no new acreage in Illinois)

Dec. 1818 A rented two-story building housed First General Assembly of Illinois.

July 30, 1819 Treaty of Edwardsville, negotiated by Auguste Chouteau and Benjamin Stephenson, extinguished all claims of Kickapoo of the Prairie in Illinois, including land previously ceded by the Peoria tribe. Consideration: $2,000 annually for fifteen years to be paid in specie at the Kickapoo town on the headwaters of the Osage; and land on the Osage in the territory of Missouri. (new acres in Illinois, 969,400)

Aug. 30, 1819 Treaty of Fort Harrison, negotiated by Auguste Chouteau and Benjamin Stephenson with the Kickapoo of the Vermillion, ceded all lands this tribe could legally claim on the Wabash River or any of its tributaries. Consideration: Kickapoo relinquished annuity of $1,000 in trade goods for an annuity of $2,000 in trade goods to paid in specie. (2,317,849 acres in Illinois) The total acres ceded in Illinois before 1820: 29,258,147.

Dec. 4, 1820 Second General Assembly convened in a two-story frame building at Vandalia, the first capitol owned by the state of Illinois.

Dec. 14, 1821 Indiana legislature approved the survey of the border north of the Wabash by a joint Illinois-Indiana commission.

Feb. 17, 1823 Illinois legislature approved survey and provided for a stone marker.

Dec. 9, 1823 Fire destroyed the capitol. It was replaced by a two-story brick building. Aug. 25, 1828 Treaty of Green Bay, negotiated by Lewis Cass and Pierre Menard with the Winnebago and the United Tribes of the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatami, ceded lands in the state of Illinois situated between the Illinois River and the Fever River and lands east of the Fox from the Lake Michigan-Rock River line to the boundary of the canal strip. In this treaty the United Tribes recognized Winnebago claims to land in the middle Rock River Valley. Consideration: $20,000 in trade goods. (new acres in Illinois, 750,888)

July 29, 1829 Treaty of Prairie du Chien, negotiated by John McNiel, Pierre Menard, and Caleb Atwater with the United Tribes of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatami, extinguished title to lands between the boundaries of cessions made by the Treaty of Green Bay August 25, 1828, and the Winnebago village forty miles from the mouth of the Rock River; also lands from Lake Michigan to the Rock River from the Lake Michigan-Rock River line and an east-west line from the northeast corner of the canal strip. Consideration: payment in specie of $16,000 annually forever; $12,000 in trade goods as a present; 50 barrels of salt annually forever; and individual gifts of land to heads of families electing to remain in Illinois. (3,790,000 acres in Illinois)

Aug. 1, 1829 Treaty of Prairie du Chien, negotiated by John McNiel, Pierre Menard, and Caleb Atwater, ceded all land claimed by the Winnebago tribe in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Consideration: $18,000 in specie annually for thirty years; $30,000 in goods as a present; 3,000 pounds of tobacco and 50 barrels of salt annually for thirty years; the United States to provide and support three blacksmith shops on new lands, and two yoke of oxen, one cart, and one man at the portage of the Wisconsin. (no new acreage in Illinois)

Oct. 12, 1832 Treaty of Tippecanoe River, negotiated by Jonathan Jennings, J. W. Davis, and Mark Crume with the Potawatami, ceded lands north of the Kankakee River and southeast of the canal strip. Consideration: $32,000 in goods at once; $10,000 in goods in the spring of 1833; lands totaling 72 sections granted to groups and totaling 83 sections to individuals. (565,000 acres in Illinois)

Sep. 26, 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the final act of cession, negotiated by George B. Porter, Thomas J. V. Owen, and William Weatherford with the United Tribes of the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatami, conveyed to the United States the remaining land of the tribes in Illinois from the Rock River to Lake Michigan. Consideration: 5,000,000 acres west of the Mississippi in what are now Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska; $100,000 to satisfy claims of various individuals, $150,000 to pay claims against the tribes which the commissioners judge to be just; $100,000 in trade goods; $280,000 in twenty annual payments of $14,000; $150,000 for erection of mills, farmhouses, blacksmith shops, and for support of such physicians, millers, farmers, blacksmiths, and other mechanics as the President of the United States should think proper to appoint; $70,000 for education to be invested in some safe stock, interest only to be applied; small annuties to several individuals; $3,500 in cash to two bands headed by minor chiefs in payment for land withheld by them under the first Treaty of Prairie du Chien, and now ceded by them to the United States. (about 1,300,000 acres in Illinois) The total acres ceded from 1795 through 1833: 35,664,035.

Dec. 1836 The Tenth General Assembly convened in new capitol built by citizens of Vandalia in the vain hope they might retain seat of government. July 4, 1837Cornerstone laid for $260,000 capitol at Springfield.

July 4, 1839 By proclamation of the governor, state offices were moved to Springfield.

Aug. 31, 1847 Draft constitution of Illinois which claimed some jurisdiction over the Ohio River for Illinois was adopted by the constitutional convention, and later ratified by the people. Summer 1853Fifth capitol of Illinois completed after sixteen years. Mar. 11, 1868Ground broken for new capitol for which assembly had appropriated $3,000,000.

Oct. 5, 1868 Cornerstone laid in the presence of U. S. Grant, Republican candidate for President.

Oct. 23, 1869 Old capitol sold to Sangamon County for $200,000. Delivered in 1876 when state offices moved to the still incomplete sixth capitol. Courts first occupied the building in 1878.