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Capt. James Moore, Shadrach Bond, Robert Kidd, Larken Rutherford, and James Garretson, who had served under George Rogers Clark in 1778, arrived with their families in the spring of 1782 and established the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory. They named the region Belle Fontaine for a beautiful spring used by Indians and the French, who called it La belle Fontaine. They endured the hardship of frontier life as Indians, friendly and hostile, traveled the Kaskaskia Trail from Cahokia through Belle Fontaine to Kaskaskia, stopping at the spring to refresh. Buried in this cemetery are Captain James Moore, 1750 - 1788; Catherine Biggs Moore, his wife, 1750 - 1811; John Moore, 1773 - 1832; William Moore, 1775 - 1799; Gen. James Moore Biggs Moore, 1780 - 1840; Enoch Moore, 1783 - 1848, the first child of American parentage born in this area; Mary Moore Robinson, their only daughter, 1784 - 1836; Col. David Robinson, her husband, 1785 - 1836; John Milton Moore, the youngest son, 1786 - 1844; Samuel McRoberts, 1799 - 1844, the first native born Illinoisian elect to the U. S. Senate; and John D. Whiteside, 1746 - 1815.
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