Nehemiah Matson
Born: 1816
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Nehemiah Matson was an early Illinois settler and wrote extensively about the earlier French and Indian inhabitants. Biography: Nehemiah Matson was a Princeton resident and was one of the most prolific and entertaining amateur historians of the nineteenth-century llinois. Because of his indiscriminate mixing of fact and legend, however, scholars generally discount his books as valid sources. But he does providevaluable clues for the researcher, and some of his apparently legendary tales can be verified.
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French and Indians of Illinois River ISBN: 0665101570 OCLC: 8423349 [publisher not identified], [Princeton, Ill.?] : 1874 |
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French and Indians of Illinois River / ISBN: 0809323648 OCLC: 43936765 Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale : ©2001. |
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Memories Of Shaubena ISBN: 0548224072 OCLC: 179784232 Kessinger Publishing, LLC 2007 |
| Pioneers of illinois : ISBN: 1286570557 OCLC: 934969859 Nabu Press, [Place of publication not identified] : 2012. |
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REMINISCENCES OF BUREAU COUNTY : ISBN: 1333535333 OCLC: 978695338 FORGOTTEN Books, [Place of publication not identified], 2016. |