“Beloved Children -Through the tender mercies of our God we are all in good health -1 have just returned from a tour of preaching on the east side of the Mississippi, and have agreed to go over again on the first Saturday in May next to form a church. This no doubt offered a promising field for 'spreading the gospel.' A letter written by Downing Baugh. joins the Illinois volunteer militia to fight in the Black Hawk War, as does another young man named Abe Lincoln.īy the year of 1832 the treaty with the Indians of the area supposedly made it safe to establish settlements, the area saw an influx of white settlers. Black Hawk and his band were on the warpath and Black Hawk's band had defeated a local militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run. That spring of 1832, Monmouth’s crops were barely planted, when the news arrived of an Indian war, less than 60 miles away. Chief Black Hawk leads a group of Native Americans back east across the Mississippi River to reclaim land previously ceded to the US Government. As the white population of the region grew so did the tensions with the Native American population. The Louisiana Purchase and Adams-Onis Treaty had removed Spain's protection away from Indians, and then the consequences of the War of 1812 removed British protection from the ever expanding incursions of white settlers. These treaties and the subsequent National Road 'aided the white settlers and brought misery to the Indians' which unfortunately brought about Black Hawk’s War. It had become an important linkage between the original 13 states and the new states created in the Louisiana and Northwest Territories, in the wake of the Treaty of Ghent and the Adams-Onis Treaty.

The National Road, that was begun in 1811, was a highway had now reached Vandalia, Illinois. The settlers had taken the precaution, however, to procure a species of Indian maize, which matured much earlier than the common variety, and so that season a very good crop was raised. The spring of 1832 came rather late, and the weather was still very cold, and like the previous spring, little corn came up. Elijah also served as the County Treasurer. The first group met originally in members' houses, the courthouse, and a hallway of a downtown building. The Cold Brook congregation calls itself 'the church of Christ on Cedar Fork of Henderson River. On the 30th day of April, Elijah Davidson is appointed to be pastor of the Christian Church establish at Cold Brook, east of Monmouth. Twenty-three votes were cast in favor of the incorporation and none against. It was organized by calling Elijah Davidson to be chair for voting to incorporate the town of Monmouth. In 1831, on February 12, 'an act to incorporate the inhabitants of Monmouth” was publicly posted to call 'the male citizens of the town of Monmouth' to meet at the school house. Elijah Davidson builds one of the first four cabins built in Monmouth. Within one year, census shows 830 persons residing in the three counties. By this time the entire territory comprised in Warren, Henderson and Merger counties contained only thirty families (half of them related) but others were constantly coming, so that by the the following spring it was thought proper amount of residents to send to Peoria and secure an order for a county election. That autumn, Elijah Davidson, William Whitman, Peter Butler build their homes on the south side of Cedar creek. In 1829, Elijah and family leave Kentucky for the newly opened lands of western Illinois. Disciples of Christ (Christian now) church. The new school would be patterned after Bethany College in Virginia (later West Virginia), which was founded by Alexander Campbell, founder of the. The women had extracted from their men a promise that a school and a church would be established before they had consented to go. The Davidson, Murphy, Butler and Lucas families had left Kentucky for newly opened lands now promised to the veterans of Kentucky militia at the Battle of New Orleans, and to escape their growing struggles with Kentucky imposing new laws threatening abolitionists with heavy fines or jail time for helping any runaways escape slavery. Veterans of the War of 1812 begin receiving 160-acre land warrants in the Illinois Military Tract, a region between the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, in 1829, when the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi ceded lands in northern Illinois by treaty at Prairie du Chien.

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