1. Concord, or Concordia, to be distinguished from the settlement called Concordia on the Spanish side of the Mississippi across from Natchez, was apparently on the English side in Illinois Country, for on 2 Feb., fourteen English settlers wrote Gálvez from the Spanish Arkansas Post petitioning for protection, stating that they "upon their arrival at the English side found the Place called Concord abandoned and understood that Captain Willing left Orders that nobody should remain there." Quoted in Charles R. Smith, Marines in the Revolution: A Histmy ofthe Continental Marines in the American Revolution, 1775-1783 (Washington: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1975), 184.