![]() He preached and catechized, also baptized several of the Red Men. If this were so, his labors must have been west of the river. Thomas Lippincott tells us his design was to labor in the Spanish colonies on the Mississippi, mainly perhaps with a view to the Indians. After descending the Ohio with some companions in a keel boat and ascending the Mississippi, he landed at Kaskaskia in 1797. He was from Chester county, Pennsylvania. So far as I am aware the first Presbyterian minister who visited the Illinois country was JOHN EVANS FINLEY. Until that time the only white inhabitants of the Illinois country were the French and Canadian settlers, and the British troops who occupied the forts. Few or no Americans had settled in the Illinois country prior to the expedition of Gen. The British retained their hold of the Illinois country for fifteen years, or until they were dispossessed by Gen. The next year they ceded the valley east of the Mississippi and Canada to the British, thus losing not only Canada but the whole of the great interior valley of North America, after claiming the whole and occupying some small portions of it for ninety years. e., the country west of the Mississippi, to Spain. ![]() ![]() Until 1762 the French were regarded as the sole European proprietors of Canada and the Mississippi valley. Between that time and 1686 they had established several forts and settlements, the principal ones being Kaskaskia and Cahokia. The first white explorers of the Illinois country were the Canadian French in 1673. Bryan, 1879.Ĭhapter 2 MISSIONARIES AND CHURCHES FROM THE BEGINNING TO 1820 ![]()
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