to Genesee county, New York, where the wife died, April 21, 1813. On August 1st of the same year Seymour took a second wife, Nancy Wilcox, and they had three children when they left New York, Esther, Seymour and Nancy.

Elisha Kellogg was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, November 30, 1784, accompanied his father to Genesee county, New York, and there married Elizabeth Derrick who was born in New York, May 2, 1792. They were the parents of five children born in New York, Philander, Orville Enos, Abigail Elizabeth, Florentine Erwin and Sophia Emeline.

Seymour and Elisha, like their Kellogg ancestors, were military men. In their New York home they were close to the Niagara frontier and along the overland route from Niagara to Oswego and Sackett's Harbor, localities which saw many battles during the war of 1812. Seymour was a member of the Genesee county, New York, militia. He was commissioned lieutenant in 1803, captain in 1806 and lieutenant-colonel of the 164th regiment in 1815. In 1816 he resigned. Elisha is listed in the muster rolls of the Genesee county, New York, militia for 1809 as a lieutenant and in 1812 as a captain. In 1815 he resigned.5

In the War of 1812 both Seymour and Elisha served in several organizations. Seymour was a captain in Colonel Hugh W. Dobbins' regiment from June 30, 1812, to September 30, 1812, saw service at Lewiston, New York, and was again enrolled in the same regiment on September 30, 1812. After service at Manchester, New York, he was discharged November 6, 1812. He again enlisted on September 1, 1813, and on March 8, 1814, he was enrolled as a major in Hopkin's Brigade of the New York militia. On May 8, 1814, he was mustering the militia of Genesee county, New York. On May 30, 1814, he became a major in Lieutenant-Colonel Worthy L. Churchill's regiment, the 164th New York militia, and was discharged June 8, 1814. He enrolled again on August 29, 1814, was promoted to the rank of colonel and was finally discharged September 29, 1814. He was in the sortie at Fort Erie. Elisha was enrolled as lieutenant in Captain

Shubel Dunham's company on June 29, 1812, and was discharged on July 9 of the same year. From November 19 to December 4, 1812, he served as captain in Brigadier-General Smythe's regiment. From May 30 to June 30, 1812, he was paymaster in Lieutenant Worthy L. Churchill's regiment, the 164th New York militia, and served as captain in that regiment from August 29 to September 29, 1814. The Pension Department records show that as captain in the 164th New York militia he was in the battle of Black Rock, December 20, 1813. Elisha was pensioned by the United States for a time, but his name was dropped from the roll. No bounty land was allowed him for his services. Bounty land was allowed Seymour, but he was never pensioned.

The Kelloggs wagoned from their New York home to Pittsburgh, where they disposed of their teams and wagons, procured a flatboat and embarked on the Ohio river for Illinois. While descending the river they fell in with Ambrose Collins and family from Ontario county, New York, who were likewise flatboating to Illinois. Seymour Kellogg and Ambrose Collins had been acquaintances in New York and the three families continued their journey together. When they disembarked at Shawneetown, Illinois, the Kelloggs bought four yokes of oxen and two wagons and the party went to Carmi, Illinois, where it remained until the next autumn. While at Carmi a son, Borden, was born to Seymour and Nancy Kellogg.

Early in the autumn of 1819, the three families wagoned westward to Edwardsville, where they learned of the treaty recently concluded with the Kickapoo Indians in which they relinquished their claims to lands in central Illinois and agreed to vacate the region. At Edwardsville Ambrose Collins was taken sick and he and his family were compelled to remain there until the spring of 1820.

The Kelloggs, their families and Charles Collins, son of Ambrose, with their oxen, wagons, some cattle and provisions started northward into the Kickapoo lands. When they reached the vicinity of the present Curran they proceeded westward guided by their compasses and indistinct Indian

trails to the forests along the upper Mauvaiseterre and about September 1st pitched camp on its north fork. Their reason for stopping there is unknown, unless they had information from explorers as to the region. During the summer of 1819 a number of men from the vicinity of Edwardsville, anticipating the extinguishment of the Kickapoo claim, came into central Illinois. Among them was Alexander Beall who settled later near Exeter and who said that when he first visited the lands in Morgan county there was not a home or other mark of civilization north of Apple creek and that there were plenty of Indians camped on Mauvaiseterre and Sandy creeks and with them a few French and half-breed traders, one of whom had a shanty on the banks of the Illinois river.' There is a tradition in Pike county that a Canadian Frenchman, J. B. Thibault occupied a cabin just south of the present Valley City from 1817 to 1819.8

In the autumn of 1819, settlers located near the present Carlinville, on Sugar creek near the present Auburn, on Lick creek near the present Chatham, on Spring creek within the limits of the present Springfield and at Island Grove. The Kelloggs when they located did not know that they had neighbors at Island Grove and on Spring creek. The Kelloggs and Charles Collins in 1819 were the only white settlers in the region between the headwaters of Sangamon river on the east, the Illinois river on the west, Macoupin creek on the south and the Sangamon river on the north, except, perhaps, a lone settler near the site of Chandlerville.

The pioneers set to, erected two cabins and prepared for winter. They had an uncomfortable experience with a prairie fire before their cabins were completed. The winter of 18191820 was a severe one. Edwardsville, seventy-five miles away, was the nearest point where the settlers could secure corn and provisions. Seymour Kellogg returning with his oxen from a trip to Edwardsville lost his way in a severe snow storm. He turned his oxen loose and they returned to his cabin whereupon his brother and son started in search of him and found him with his feet so badly frozen that they had difficulty in