Indiana (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
04 JUL 18008,631St. Clair becomes a county in the Indiana Territory
03 FEB 1801159,638Gained land from Knox County and lost to Randolph counties
01 MAR 1803136,092Lost land to the creation of Wayne County
01 MAY 1803132,774Exchanged land with Randolph County
   
See Also:
St. Clair County, Territory Northwest of the River Ohio (1790-1800)
St. Clair County, Territory of Illinois (1809-1818)

 

 

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 04 JUL 1800 by An act to divide the territory of the United States north-west of the Ohio, into two separate governments . The county's boundaries would change two 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

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St. Clair County in 1800

 

Census
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DatePopulationChange
18105,007---


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.
  • Warner & Beers (Chicago). An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Clair County, Illinois. Chicago: Warner & Beers, 1874.
  • Warner & Beers. and Geo. A. Ogle & Co. "Combined Atlases of St. Clair County, Illinois, 1874-1901." Evansville, IN: Whipporwill Publications, 1984.
  • West, Edward William. History of St. Clair County, Illinois. Belleville, Ill.,: Advocate Steam Print. House, 1876.
 
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Proclamation erecting new county of Wayne, 1803

January 24th. 1803. "Whereas by an act of Congress passed on the 30th April 1802. Entitled an act to enable the people of the Eastern divisions of the Territory North West of the Ohio River, to form a Constitution and State Government, and that after the formation of said State, all that part of the north Western Territory which is not included within the Boundaries prescribed for said State, Shal be attached to and make a part of the Indiana Territory; it has Therefore become necessary for the convenience of the Citizens in the newly acquired Territory and for the due administration of Justice, that a new County should be laid off and Established, the Governor Issued a proclamation Establishing the boundaries as follows viz. beginning at a point where an East and west line passing through the Southerly Extreame of Lake Michigan would intersect a North and South line passing through the most westerly bend of the said Lake, and thence north along the last mentioned line to the Territorial Boundary of the United States thence along the said boundary line to a point where a due east and west line passing through the Southerly extreme of Lake Michigan would intersect the same thence west along the last mentioned line to the place of begining and that the said County should be designated and Known by the name of the County of Wayne

Proclamation altering boundary line between Randolph and St. Clair counties, 1803

March 25th. Sundrie petitions having been presented to the Governor, from a number of the Citizens of the County of Randolph, Complaining of the great distance from the seat of Justice of their County, and praying that the line dividing the Counties of Randolph and St. Clair may be so altered as to anex them to the latter, the Governor Issued a proclamation, declaring the line separating the Counties of Randolph and St. Clair shall begin on the Mississippi River four miles and thirty two Chains south of the point, where the present division line intersects the Mississippi Bottom, thence by a direct line to the Sink hole Springs, thence by a line north sixty degrees East until it intersects a north line running from the great Cave on the Ohio River, and the alterations and boundaries so established shall take place from and after the first day of may next.

Proclamation Altering Boundary Lines of Knox, Randolph, and St. Clair Counties, 1801

The Governor Issued a proclamation altering the boundary lines of the Counties of Knox & Randolph and St. Clair as follows, to wit, the boundary of the County of Randolph shall begin on the Ohio River at a Place called the Great Cave, below the Saline Lick, thence by a direct north line until it intersects an East and West line running from the Mississippy through the Sink hole spring, thence along the said line to the Mississippy thence down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Ohio and up the Ohio to the place of beginning.

 

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