Note 227 — Chapter IV · CHICAGO IN THE REVOLUTION

Michigan Pioneer Collections, IX, 558.

[228] Virginia State Papers, III, 443.

[229] Montgomery says he went "to the Lake open on the Illinois River" (Virginia State Papers, III, 443). Peoria was variously designated at this time as the Pee, Pey, Opie, etc. This designation is said to have originated as a corruption of the French words au pied, used with reference to the foot of the lake. Montgomery's "Lake open" was, apparently, but another variant of the original French form.