Footnotes
Floyd E. Risvold Collection, 2:113.
The Floyd E. Risvold Collection: American Expansion and the Journey West. 3 vols. 2009. Catalog of the 27–29 January 2010 auction of the Floyd E. Risvold estate at New York City by the Spink Shreves Galleries and Spink Smythe of Dallas, TX.
See the full bibliographic entry for Garret Bias, Letter, St. Joseph Co., IN, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 7 Mar. 1843, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
Jung, Black Hawk War of 1832, 3.
Jung, Patrick J. The Black Hawk War of 1832. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
Both Bias and Clybourn purchased parcels of land at a public land sale in Chicago in 1833, and in May 1835, Clybourn sold one of the lots he acquired to Bias. (“Bias, Garret,” and “Clybourne, Archibald,” Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales, Illinois State Archives, Springfield; Clybourn v. Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway Co., 4 Bradwell 463–465 [Ill. App. Ct. 1st Dist. 1879]; Gale, Reminiscences of Early Chicago, 145–147; Daniels, Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of LaPorte County, Indiana, 20–22.)
Illinois State Archives. http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/home.html.
Bradwell / Bradwell, James B. Reports of the Decisions of the Appellate Courts of the State of Illinois. 18 vols. Chicago: Chicago Legal News, 1878–1886.
Gale, Edwin O. Reminiscences of Early Chicago and Vicinity. Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1902.
Daniels, E. D. A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of LaPorte County, Indiana. Chicago: Lewis, 1904.
History of La Porte County, Indiana, 718; Daniels, Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of LaPorte County, Indiana, 188.
History of La Porte County, Indiana; together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chicago: Charles C. Chapman, 1880.
Daniels, E. D. A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of LaPorte County, Indiana. Chicago: Lewis, 1904.
LaPorte Co., IN, Court Records, 1832–1922, Civil Order Book E, pp. 217–218, 22 Sept. 1842, microfilm 2,445,428, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
St. Joseph Co., IN, Deed Records, 1830–1901, vol. M, p. 68, 5 July 1845; vol. J, p. 458, 29 July 1845, microfilm 1,605,747, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Bias noted his neglect to pay the postage in a letter approximately one month later. (Letter from Garret Bias, 3 Apr. 1843.)
This torn portion of the page possibly contained “Independence,” the place from which Bias wrote to JS again four weeks later. It also possibly contained the “St.” from “St. Joseph.” St. Joseph County histories do not list a settlement called Independence, but there was a settlement called Independence in LaPorte County. Bias owned parcels of land in the neighboring counties of St. Joseph and LaPorte in Indiana. Some of the parcels Bias owned in St. Joseph County were on the county line and were within a few hundred yards of Independence village in LaPorte County. The county line moved in 1850. (Letter from Garret Bias, 3 Apr. 1843; St. Joseph Co., IN, Deed Records, 1830–1901, vol. G, p. 588, 22 Nov. 1842, microfilm 1,605,746; LaPorte Co., IN, Deed Records, 1833–1901, vol. F, pp. 632–633, 23 June 1837 and 8 May 1838, microfilm 1,674,195, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; History of La Porte County, Indiana, 595, 717, 885–886.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
History of La Porte County, Indiana; together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chicago: Charles C. Chapman, 1880.
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Webster’s 1828 dictionary defines a “stand of arms, in military affairs” as a “musket with its usual appendages, as a bayonet, cartridge box, &c.” Military historian George D. Moller defines a stand of arms this way: “From the early 19th century, this term described a musket complete with a ramrod, bayonet, and sling. A screwdriver, wiper, ball screw, and a spring vise for each 10 arms were also included in this terminology.” (“Stand,” in American Dictionary [1828]; Moller, American Military Shoulder Arms, 588.)
An American Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibit, I. the Origin, Affinities and Primary Signification of English Words, as far as They Have Been Ascertained. . . . Edited by Noah Webster. New York: S. Converse, 1828.
Moller, George D. American Military Shoulder Arms. Vol. 3, Flintlock Alterations and Muzzleloading Percussion Shoulder Arms, 1840–1865. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
The Black Hawk War of 1832 was also known as the Sac and Fox War.