Note 15 — Buttrick’s Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries 1812–1819

The hard times following the War of 1812–15 caused a great increase in immigration from New-England, especially Maine. The “Ohio fever” became a well-known expression for this desire to move West, and in the years 1815–16 it deprived Maine of fifteen thousand of her inhabitants. See Chamberlain, Maine: Her Place in History (Augusta, 1877).—Ed.