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Joseph Bowman
Indiana
Major VA State TRPS
Revolutionary War
Aug 18 1779

Illustration of George Rogers Clark's march to Vincennes in the American Revolutionary War, 1779.

No. 111 Application to Confirm and Indian Grant. Communicated to the House of Representatives December 23, 1805

Secret orders given by Virginia Governor Patrick Henry authorizing George Rogers Clark to attack British posts in the area called the Illinois County. The goal was to protect American settlements in the frontier from further British-sponsored Indian…

A Map showing Corn Island. In early 1778, Clark went from Williamsburg to Fort Pitt to recruit men and obtain supplies. He then travelled down the Ohio River to Corn Island at the Falls of the Ohio before proceeding to Fort Sackville. Engraved for…

Father Pierre Gibault was born in Montreal, Canada in 1737. Gibault was thirty years old when he was ordained a priest on March 19, 1768. Within months, he was sent into the Illinois country as a missionary for the isolated frontier French…