American Frontiersman Adventurer. His notorious exploits are told in many historical sources. John Dodge, after be raised in a quiet life in Connecticut went to live on the western frontier, where he became a trader, Indian Agent, Virginia militia colonel, a soldier in the Illinois Regiment of the Virginia militia under George Rogers Clark, a warlord dictator of Kaskaskia, Illinois, a salt maker in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, a slave stealer, and the uncle of Henry Dodge, the Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate from Wisconsin, a Territorial Governor of Wisconsin, and a veteran of the Black Hawk War. Sources: Kaskaskia records, 1778-1790 by Illinois State Historical Society, 1909. The Illinois Country 1673-1818, Clarence Alvord, 1920. Narrative of the capture and treatment of John Dodge, by the English at Detroit; Entertaining narrative of the cruel and barbarous treatment and extreme sufferings of Mr. John Dodge ... by John Dodge, Philadelphia, 1779. "Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in Illinois" by Edwin S. Walker, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Apr., 1915). Fort Jefferson, 1780-1781 by Kenneth C. Carstens. Selected Papers From the 1987 and 1988 George Rogers Clark Trans-Appalachian Frontier History Conferences.
American Frontiersman Adventurer. His notorious exploits are told in many historical sources. John Dodge, after be raised in a quiet life in Connecticut went to live on the western frontier, where he became a trader, Indian Agent, Virginia militia colonel, a soldier in the Illinois Regiment of the Virginia militia under George Rogers Clark, a warlord dictator of Kaskaskia, Illinois, a salt maker in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, a slave stealer, and the uncle of Henry Dodge, the Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate from Wisconsin, a Territorial Governor of Wisconsin, and a veteran of the Black Hawk War. Sources: Kaskaskia records, 1778-1790 by Illinois State Historical Society, 1909. The Illinois Country 1673-1818, Clarence Alvord, 1920. Narrative of the capture and treatment of John Dodge, by the English at Detroit; Entertaining narrative of the cruel and barbarous treatment and extreme sufferings of Mr. John Dodge ... by John Dodge, Philadelphia, 1779. "Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in Illinois" by Edwin S. Walker, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Apr., 1915). Fort Jefferson, 1780-1781 by Kenneth C. Carstens. Selected Papers From the 1987 and 1988 George Rogers Clark Trans-Appalachian Frontier History Conferences.
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