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    The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818
    The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818
    The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818
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    The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818

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    The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818

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      Title: The Jefferson-Lemen Compact

      The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the

      Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory

      with Related Documents 1781-1818

      Author: Willard C. MacNaul

      Release Date: April 29, 2007 [EBook #21251]

      Language: English

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      The Jefferson-Lemen Compact

      The Relations of

      Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen

      in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois

      and the Northwest Territory

      with Related Documents

      1781-1818

      A Paper read before the

      Chicago Historical Society

      February 16, 1915

      By

      Willard C. MacNaul

      The University of Chicago Press

      1915

      Copyright by

      CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY

      1915

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      Sketch of James Lemen

      Lemen's Relations with Jefferson in Virginia

      Lemen's Anti-Slavery Mission in Illinois—

      Slavery in Illinois until 1787

      Prohibition of Slavery by Ordinance of 1787

      The Slavery Conflict under Gov. St. Clair (1787-1800)

      The Slavery Conflict under Gov. Harrison (1801-1809)

      Slavery Question in the Movement for Division of Indiana Territory in 1808-9

      James Lemen's Anti-Slavery Influence in the Baptist Churches until 1809

      Slavery under Gov. Ninian Edwards (1809-1818)

      Slavery in the Campaign for Statehood in 1818

      Available Materials Relating to the Subject

      Account of the Lemen Family Notes

      DOCUMENTS

      Diary of James Lemen, Sr.

      History of the Relations of James Lemen and Thos. Jefferson, by J. M. Peck

      How Illinois Got Chicago, by Jos. B. Lemen

      Address to the Friends of Freedom

      Recollections of a Centennarian, by Dr. W. F. Boyakin

      In Memory of Rev. Jas. Lemen, Sr.

      Statement by Editor ofBelleville Advocate

      Letter of Rev. J. M. Peck on the Old Lemen Family Notes

      PIONEER LETTERS

      Letter of Senator Douglas to Rev. Jas. Lemen, Sr.

      Announcement by J. B. Lemen

      Letter of Gov. Ninian Edwards to Jas. Lemen, Jr.

      Letter of A. W. Snyder to Jas. Lemen, Sr.

      Letter of Abraham Lincoln to Jas. Lemen, Jr.

      The Lemen Monument—Lemen's War Record

      Sketch of Rev. James Lemen, Sr., by J. M. Peck

      Old Lemen Family Notes, Statement by Jos. B. Lemen

      References

      NOTE

      The materials here presented were collected in connection with the preparation of a history of the first generation of Illinois Baptists. The narrative introduction is printed substantially as delivered at a special meeting of the Chicago Historical Society, and, with the collection of documents, is published in response to inquiries concerning the so-called Lemen Family Notes, and in compliance with the request for a contribution to the publications of this Society. It is hoped that the publication may serve to elicit further information concerning the alleged Notes, the existence of which has become a subject of more or less interest to historians. The compiler merely presents the materials at their face value, without assuming to pass critical judgment upon them.

      W. C. M.

      INTRODUCTION

      RELATIONS OF JAMES LEMEN AND THOMAS JEFFERSON IN THE EXCLUSION OF SLAVERY FROM ILLINOIS AND THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY

      In view of the approaching centennary of statehood in Illinois, the name of James Lemen takes on a timely interest because of his services—social, religious, and political—in the making of the Commonwealth. He was a native of Virginia, born and reared in the vicinity of Harper's Ferry. He served a two-years' enlistment in the Revolutionary War under Washington, and afterwards returned to his regiment during the siege of Yorktown. His Yorktown Notes in his diary give some interesting glimpses of his participation in that campaign.[1] His Scotch ancestors had served in a similar cause under Cromwell, whose wedding gift to one of their number is still cherished as a family heirloom.

      Upon leaving the army James Lemen married Catherine Ogle, daughter of Captain Joseph Ogle, whose name is perpetuated in that of Ogle county, Illinois. The Ogles were of old English stock, some of whom at least were found on the side of Cromwell and the Commonwealth. Catherine's family at one time lived on the South Branch of the Potomac, although at the time of her marriage her home was near Wheeling. Captain Ogle's commission, signed by Gov. Patrick Henry, is now a valued possession of one of Mrs. Lemen's descendants. James and Catherine Lemen were well fitted by nature and training for braving the hardships and brightening the privations of life on the frontier, far removed from home and friends, or even the abodes of their nearest white kinsmen.

      During, and even before the war, young Lemen is reputed to have been the protégé of Thomas Jefferson, through whose influence he became a civil and religious leader in the pioneer period of Illinois history. Gov. Reynolds, in his writings relating to this period,[2] gives various sketches of the man and his family, and his name occurs frequently in the records of the times. He was among the first to follow Col. Clark's men to the Illinois country, where he established the settlement of New Design, one of the earliest American colonies in what was, previous to his arrival, the Illinois county of the Old Dominion. Here he served, first as a justice of the peace, and then as a judge of the court of the original county of St. Clair, and thus acquired the title of Judge Lemen.[3] Here, too, he became the progenitor of the numerous Illinois branch of the Lemen family, whose genealogy and family history was recently published by Messrs. Frank and Joseph B. Lemen—a volume of some four hundred and fifty pages, and embracing some five hundred members of the family.

      True to his avowed purpose in coming to Illinois, young Lemen became a leader of anti-slavery sentiment in the new Territory, and, undoubtedly, deserves to be called one of the Fathers of the Free State Constitution, which was framed in 1818 and preserved in 1824. His homestead, the Old Lemen Fort at New Design, which is still the comfortable home of the present owner, is the birthplace of the Baptist denomination in Illinois; and he himself is commemorated as the recognized founder of that faith in this State, by a granite shaft in the family burial plot directly in front of the old home. This memorial was dedicated in 1909 by Col. William Jennings Bryan, whose father, Judge Bryan, of Salem, Illinois, was the first to suggest it as a well-deserved honor.

      James Lemen, Sr., also became the father and leader of the noted Lemen Family Preachers, consisting of himself and six stalwart sons, all but one of whom were regularly ordained Baptist

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