Memorial of the United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States #268083

IN the year 17 7 3, William Murray, in conjunction with various other persons as whose agent he acted, as wefl as on his own account, formed a' plan for the purchase of lands from the Illinois Indians a nation consisting of various tribes, who claimed and possessed a very extensive tract of country4 on the' Mississippi Ohio and Illinois rivers.