Illinois (territory) -- St. Clair (county)


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County Quick Reference

County Seat: Cahokia

County Name: Named for Arthur St. Clair, first Governor of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio


 
Boundary Changes
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Date
Area
Change
01 MAR 1809132509St. Clair County lost land moving from Indiana Territory to Illinois Territory
28 APR 1809137871Lost land to Randolph County and exchanged land with Indiana Territory
14 SEP 1812922Lost land to Madison County
11 DEC 18131878Exchanged land with Randolph County
01 JUN 18161653Lost land to Monroe County
02 JAN 1818735Lost land to Washington County
   
See Also:
St. Clair County, Territory Northwest of the River Ohio (1790-1800)
St. Clair County, Indiana Territory (1800-1809)

 

 

Authority
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Background
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St. Clair County was formed on 27 April 1790 by proclamation of the Governor of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio [click here for more information]. It became a county with Indiana Territory on 01 JUL 1800 by An act to divide the territory of the United States north-west of the Ohio, into two separate governments [click here for more information]. St. Clair County moved to the Illinois Territory on 01 March 1809 by An Act for dividing the Indiana Territory into two separate governments [click here for more information]. The county's boundaries would change five times before statehood.

The following map shows the original size of the county at its founding (in red with yellow border) superimposed on a modern map.


St. Clair County in 1809

 

Census
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DatePopulationChange
18182,939---


Bibliography
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  • History of St. Clair County, Illinois : With Illustrations Descriptive of Its Scenery and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Philadelphia: Brink McDonough & Co., 1881.
  • History of St. Clair County, Illinois, Index. Illinois?: s.n.
  • St. Clair County, Illinois : East St. Louis, Illinois, Fairmont City, Illinois, Lebanon, Illinois, Collinsville, Illinois, Swansea, Illinois, Shiloh, Illinois, Marissa, Illinois, Belleville, Illinois, Mascoutah, Illinois, Cahokia, Illinois, Brooklyn, Illinois, Sauget, Illinois. Memphis, Tenn.: Books LLC, 2010.
  • Populated Places in St. Clair County, Illinois. Memphis: Books LLC, 2011.
  • History of St. Clair County, Illinois. With Illustrations ... And. S.l.: Hardpress Ltd, 2013.
  • Apple Creek Association (Saint Clair County Ill.), East St. Louis Association (Saint Clair County Ill.), St. Clair County Genealogical Society. and Metro East Baptist Association (Fairview Heights Ill.). Oak Hill Baptist Church, St. Clair County, Illinois : Minutes 10 Feb 1851 to 4 Jan 1863. 1 vols. Fairview Heights, Ill.: Metro East Baptist Association, 1999.
  • Arnold, Ralph F. and St. Clair County Genealogical Society. History of St. Clair County, Illinois. 2 vols. Dallas, Tex. Illinois: Curtis Media Corp. ; The Society, 1988.
  • Barnes, Florence Young. Wilhelm Dörr (Doerr) (1821-1891) Early German Immigrant to St. Clair County, Illinois. microform Microfiche. Champaign, Ill.: s.n., 1965.
  • Belleville (Ill.). City Council. Police Committee., Belleville (Ill.). Justice of the Peace., Belleville (Ill.). Justice of the Peace. and Illinois State Archives. Micrographic Division. Source Documents Unit. Burial Permit Record : Burial Permits, Walnut Hill Cemetery : May 1878-Apr. 1888 License Record : License Register 5, Nov. 11, 1919-Jan. 25, 1936 ; City Council Police Committee Record : Beleville [I.E. Belleville] Police Dep't 1896 : May 3, 1897-Jul. 15, 1934. microform. Springfield, Ill.: Office of the Secretary of State Illinois State Archives Micrographic Division Source Documents Unit, 2009.
  • Belleville (Ill.). Town of West Belleville. Town Trustee., Saint Clair County (Ill.). City of Belleville., Saint Clair County (Ill.). City of Belleville. and Illinois State Archives. Micrographic Division. Source Documents Unit. Town Trustee's Minutes Aug. 17, 1852-Jul. 5, 1870. microform. Springfield, Ill.: Office of the Secretary of State Illinois State Archives Micrographic Division Source Documents Unit, 2009.
  • Bethel Baptist Church (Saint Clair County Ill.). Records of the Bethel Baptist Church, St. Clair County, Illinois 1806-1964. microform. Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Historical Library, 1970.
  • Bethel Baptist Church (Saint Clair County Ill.), Diane Walsh and St. Clair County Genealogical Society. Bethel Baptist Church Minutes, 1806-1851 : Excerpts from the Minutes 1851-1852, Membership Lists 1809-1909, St. Clair County, Illinois. Belleville, IL: St. Clair County Genealogical Society, 1993.
  • Bier, Deb, Belleville News-Democrat., Cahokia-Dupo Journal. and Capaha Journal. The Flood in Saint Clair County, Illinois : Newspaper Articles from the Flood of September 1986. 1 vols. East St. Louis, Ill.: Deb Bier?, 2008.
  • Bovinet, Judith A. "An Analysis of Indentured Servants Contracts in St. Clair County Illinois Prior to Statehood." Research paper (M.A.), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1991.
  • Brandenburg, Lula Ruth Glasgow Barnes. Mostly Glasgow : A History of James Polk Glasgow, 1807-1883, of Kentucky, Daviess County, Indiana, St. Clair County, Illinois, and Sumner County, Kansas, and a History of His Cousin James Nathaniel Glasgow, 1824-1897, of St Clair County, Illinois and Sumner County, Kansas. Provo, Utah: J. Grant Stevenson for L. Brandenburg, 1974.
  • Buecher, Robert. Buecher Family History, Millstadt, St. Clair County, Illinois, 1734-1971. Millstadt, Ill.,, 1971.
  • Carr, Florence Voelkel. David Phillips Family History. Belleville, ILL.: Florence Voelkel Carr, 1978.
  • Chapman Publishing Company. Portrait and Biographical Album of St. Clair County, Illinois Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent ... Citizens, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States. Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1892.
  • Chicago Title and Trust Co. "Supplement to the Atlas of St. Clair County, Illinois." Belleville, Ill.: Chicago Title and Trust Company, 1956.
  • Daughters of the American Revolution. Belleville Chapter (Belleville Ill.). American Revolutionary War Soldiers and Patriots of Record Buried in St. Clair Co. Illinois. 1 vols. Belleville, Ill.: Belleville Chapter DAR, 1976.
  • Fellin, Mildred Haas. The Haas Family History. Englewood, FL?: M. Haas Fellin, 1993.
  • Frieda, Donna K. "Freeburg Tribune : Births, Engagements, Weddings, Anniversaries, Obituaries, Freeburg, Il, St. Clair Co." v. St. Charles, MO: D.K. Frieda.
  • Gain, J. W. History of the First Settlers in and About New Athens; Also an Account of the First Swiss Immigrants on Dutch Hill, St. Clair County, Illinois. 1 vols. East St. Louis? Ill.,.
  • Griffin, Peter Burley and Edward William West. Mitchell Family Cemetery Rededication Ceremony, Saturday, May 27, 2000, 10:30 A.M., Amann Family Farm, 3280 Mascoutah Avenue, St. Clair County, Illinois. 1 vols. St. Louis, MO: P. Griffin, 2000.
  • Hammes, Raymond H. and Illinois Research Center for Colonial and Territorial Studies. Cahokia, St. Clair County Record Book B, 1800-1813 Colonial and Territorial Research Collection of Illinois. Land Series. Springfield, Ill.: Illinois Research Center for Colonial and Territorial Studies, 1982.
  • Harrison, Alan Y. and Sons of the American Revolution. Revolutionary War Patriots Buried in St. Clair County, Illinois : A Study of 2011. S.l.: Alan Y. Harrison?, 2011.
  • Hollman, Frank and John Hollman. Current & Historical Atlas, St. Clair County, Illinois : Complete Geographical, Topographical, Statistical, Informative and Educational. Belleville, Ill.: Frank & John Hollman, 1936.
  • Illinois. State Archives Division. Public Domain Sales Land Tract Record Listing, St. Clair County. Springfield, Ill.: State of Illinois Archives Division, 1982.
  • Jenkins, John O. St. Clair County Farm Directory. Springfield, Ill.: County Farm Directory Service, 1947.
  • Johnson, Doris C. Bernhardt and Christina (Schirmer) Hesse Family History. Lebanon, Ill.: D.C. Johnson, 1996.
  • Karch, Mary Adams and Catherine Dammerich. Descendants of Ernst Karch (1816-1858) and Catherine Seip Karch (1823-1902) of St. Clair County, Illinois. St. Louis County, Mo.?: M.A. Karch, 1990.
  • Lumpkins, Charles L., Robert A. Tyson, L. U. Reavis and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Institute for Urban Research. An East St. Louis Anthology : The Origins of a River City East St. Louis Sesquicentennial Series. St. Louis, MO: Virginia Pub. Co., 2012.
  • Marissa Historical and Genealogical Society. The Tenth Anniversary Edition of Branching out Fron St. Clair County, Illinois. Marissa, Ill.: Marissa Historical and Geneological Society, 1979.
  • McCullough, John A. An O'fallon and St. Clair County Illinois Pioneer, the History of Henry Mace Jr., 1776-1866, Dunmore Co. (Shenandoah Co.) Va- St. Clair Co. Il. Mill Valley, Calif.: John A. McCullough, 2003.
  • Morrison-Talbott Library (Waterloo Ill.). A Collection of Histories of Some Churches in St. Clair County, Illinois. Waterloo, Ill.: The Library, 2002.
  • Proctor, Laverne. Benjamin J. Smith : Founder of Smithton, Illinois. Prairie du Rocher, IL: L. Proctor, 1997.
  • Reid, J.A. The greater Belleville, Saint Clair County, Illinois ... Sequel to "Belleville, Illinois. St. Louis, Mo., J.A. Reid, 1910.
  • Saint Clair County (Ill.). City of Belleville. and Illinois State Archives. Micrographic Division. Source Documents Unit. City Ordinance Record. [Book 3- Book 4]. microform . Springfield, Ill.: Office of the Secretary of State Illinois State Archives Micrographic Division Source Documents Unit, 2009.
  • Sauerhage, Mary and Cook County (Ill.). Board of County Commissioners. The Roll of Honor : Record of Burial Places of Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Army Nurses of Wars of the United States Buried in St. Clair County, Illinois to and Including Ww I. Mascoutah, Ill.: M. Sauerhage, 1991.
  • Sonderman, Robert C. The Jesse Lindall and Twiss Hill Historical Sites, St. Clair County, Illinois. Normal , Ill.: Dept. of Sociology-Anthropology-Social Work Illinois State University, 1979.
  • Speedie, Tom. History of St. Clair County. Belleville, Ill.?: T. Speedie, 1983.
  • St. Clair County Bicentennial Commission (Saint Clair County Ill.). Book Project Committee. Tapestry of Time : A Bicentennial History of St. Clair County, Illinois, in Pictures. Belleville, Ill.: St. Clair County Bicentennial Commission, 1991.
  • St. Clair Title Company. An Atlas of St. Clair County, Illinois. Belleville, Ill.,, 1956.
  • Theising, Andrew J. America's First Interstate : The National Road and Its Reach toward St. Clair County, Illinois.
  • Turner, Louise Patton Richardson. St. Clair County, Illinois Old Settlers' Reunions 1883-1889. Ill.?: Louise Patton Richardson Turner.
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Census of Illinois Territory, 1818, St. Clair County

The census covers St. Clair county. The census includes name of county and for each household name of head of household, numbers of free white males twenty-one years of age or older, other white inhabitants, free Negroes and mulattoes, and servants and slaves.

An Act forming a new County out of the County of St. Clair, 1818

Be it enacted by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Illinois territory, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all that district of country within the following bounds and limits to-wit : Commencing at the north west corner of township No. two, north of range No. five west ; thence east to the north east of township No. two north on the third principal meridian line ; thence south with the said meridian line to the south east corner of township No. three south ; thence west to the south west corner of township three south of range five west ; thence north between ranges five and six west to the beginning, shall constitute a separate and distinct county, to be called Washington : and the seat of justice for said county shall be the house of James Bankson, until it shall be permanently established, in the following manner, that is to say, there shall be appointed five persons, to-wit: Jacob Turman, Thomas Rattan, Leven Maddux, Reuben Middleton and James Fisher, who, or a majority of them, being duly sworn before some judge or justice of the peace of this territory, faithfully and impartially to take into view the situation of the settlement, the geography of the county, the convenience of the citizens, and the eligibility of the place, shall meet on the first Monday in March next, and proceed to examine and determine on the place for the permanent seat of justice, and designate the same

Proclamation dividing Illinois Territory into two counties, 1809

By virtue of the power vested in the Governor for the prevention of Crimes and injuries and for the Execution of process Civil and Criminal within the Territory, I have thought proper to and by this Proclamation do divide the Illinois Territory into two Counties to be called the County of St. Clair and the County of Randolph. The County of Randolph shall include all that part of the Illinois Territory lying South of the line dividing the Counties of Randolph & St. Clair as it existed under the Government of the Indiana Territory on the last day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and nine — And the County of S' Clair shall include all that part of the Territory which lies North of said line

An Act for forming a new county out of Randolph and St. Clair counties, 1816

Be it enacted by the Legislative Council and House of Representatve of the Illinois Territory' and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same ; That all that part of the country within the following bounds, viz, Beginning on the Mississippi River where the base line, which is about three fourths of a mile below Judge Biggs' present residence strikes the said River, thence with the base line untill it strkes the first township line therefrom, thence S.E. to the S.E. corner of township two, south range, nine West, thence south to the south East corner of township four, south range nine West, thence south Westwardly to the Mississippi so as to include Alexander M'Nabb's farm, and thence up the Mississippi to the be- ginning, shall constitute a sepparate county to be called Monroe

Proclamation establishing Gallatin, Johnson, and Madison counties, 1812

By virtue of the powers vested in the Governor of the Territory, I do hereby lay off a county or district to be called the County of Madison to be included within the following bounds, viz.: To begin on the Mississippi, to run with the second township line above Cahokia east until it strikes the dividing line between the Illinois and Indiana Territories therein with said dividing line to the line of Upper Canada, thence with said line to the Mississippi, and thence down the Mississippi to the beginning. I do appoint the house of Thomas Kirkpatrick to be the seat of justice of said county. I do also lay off a county or district to be called the County of Gallatin, to be bounded as follows, viz.:

 

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