roclamation, erecting all that country that had been ceded by the ndians east of the Scioto River into the county of Washington. From hat time forward, notwithstanding the doubts yet existing as to the ndians, all Marietta prospered, and on the 2d of September the first ourt of the territory was held with imposing ceremonies.

The emigration westward at this time was very great. The com-
ander at Fort Harmer, at the mouth of the Muskingum, reported four
housand five hundred persons as having passed that post between
ebruary and June, 1788-many of whom would have purchased of the
Associates," as the New England company was called, had they been
eady to receive them.

On the 26th of November, 1787, Symmes issued a pamphlet stating
he terms of his contract and the plan of sale he intended to adopt.
1 January, 1788, Matthias Denman, of New Jersey, took an active
terest in Symmes' purchase, and located among other tracts the sec-
ons upon which Cincinnati has been built. Retaining one-third of
is locality, he sold the other two-thirds to Robert Patterson and John
ilson, and the three, about August, commenced to lay out a town on
e spot, which was designated as being opposite Licking River, to the
outh of which they proposed to have a road cut from Lexington. The
aming of the town is thus narrated in the "Western Annals :"
"Mr.
ilson, who had been a schoolmaster, was appointed to name the town,
d, in respect to its situation, and as if with a prophetic perception of
e mixed race that were to inhabit it in after days, he named it
osantiville, which, being interpreted, means: ville, the town; anti,
gainst or opposite to; os, the mouth; L. of Licking."

Meanwhile, in July, Symmes got thirty persons and eight four-horse
ams under way for the West. These reached Limestone (now Mays-
lle) in September, where were several persons from Redstone. Here
r. Symmes tried to found a settlement, but the great freshet of 1789
used the "Point," as it was and is yet called, to be fifteen feet under
ater, and the settlement to be abandoned. The little band of settlers
moved to the mouth of the Miami. Before Symmes and his colony
ft the "Point," two settlements had been made on his purchase. The
st was by Mr. Stiltes, the original projector of the whole plan, who,
ith a colony of Redstone people, had located at the mouth of the
iami, whither Symmes went with his Maysville colony. Here a clear-
g had been made by the Indians owing to the great fertility of the
il. Mr. Stiltes with his colony came to this place on the 18th of
ovember, 1788, with twenty-six persons, and, building a block-house,

epared to remain through the winter They named the settlement

Here they wer

the flood of 17 h of March, 178 n. and on Apr the American

Tar was commenced

Erst used pacific
inst the hostile
ved in two battl
:. From this time till
ith the various

red in command,
amped on a strea
ked and defeate
Wayne was now
ten near the rapid
This success, follow
ne for peace, and
of Greenville was
of country was c
proceeding in ou
, erected in the e

early all of the great
try, have had the
tort or stockades.
mark the originals
and Detroit. So d

Mississippi. Fort
le but highly inter
strongly built, hew
Fere a story and a ha
were more imposin
The whole were
about an acre of gr

for the construction it was erected. I ent city (Cincinnat which was then a

they were kindly treated by the Indians, but suffered flood of 1789.

March, 1789, the Constitution of the United States went nd on April 30, George Washington was inaugurated American people, and during the next summer an commenced by the tribes north of the Ohio. The Presid pacific means; but these failing, he sent General the hostile tribes. He destroyed several villages, but two battles, near the present city of Fort Wayne, his time till the close of 1795, the principal events were e various Indian tribes. In 1796, General St. Clair command, and marched against the Indians; but while 1 on a stream, the St. Mary, a branch of the Maumee, and defeated with a loss of six hundred men. e was now sent against the savages. In August, 1794, r the rapids of the Maumee, and gained a complete ccess, followed by vigorous measures, compelled the r peace, and on the 30th of July, the following year, enville was signed by the principal chiefs, by which a intry was ceded to the United States.

ding in our narrative, we will pause to notice Fort ted in the early part of this war on the site of Cincinof the great cities of the Northwest, and indeed of the ave had their nuclei in those rude pioneer structures,

stockades. Thus Forts Dearborn, Washington, Ponhe original sites of the now proud cities of Chicago, etroit. So of most of the flourishing cities east and ssippi. Fort Washington, erected by Doughty in 1790, highly interesting structure. It was composed of a y built, hewed log cabins. Those designed for soldiers' ory and a half high, while those composing the officers ore imposing and more conveniently arranged and whole were so placed as to form a hollow square, n acre of ground, with a block house at each of the

construction of this fort were cut from the ground

erected It stood between Third and Foruth

THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY.

e Artificer's Yard. It contained about two acres of ground, enclosed small contiguous buildings, occupied by workshops and quarters of

borers.

Within this enclosure there was a large two-story frame use, familiarly called the " Yellow House," built for the accommodan of the Quartermaster General. For many years this was the best ished and most commodious edifice in the Queen City. Fort Washgton was for some time the headquarters of both the civil and military vernments of the Northwestern Territory.

Following the consummation of the treaty, various gigantic land eculations were entered into by different persons, who hoped to obtain m the Indians in Michigan and Northern Indiana, large tracts of nds. These were generally discovered in time to prevent the outrages schemes from being carried out, and from involving the settlers in r. On October 27, 1795, the treaty between the United States and ain was signed, whereby the free navigation of the Mississippi was cured.

No sooner had the treaty of 1795 been ratified, than settlements began pour rapidly into the West. The great event of the year 1796 was e occupation of that part of the Northwest, including Michigan, which s this year, under the provisions of the treaty, evacuated by the itish forces. The United States, owing to certain conditions, did not 1 justified in addressing the authorities in Canada in relation to troit and other frontier posts. When at last the British authorities re called to give them up, they at once complied, and General Wayne, o had done so much to preserve the frontier settlements, and who, fore the year's close, sickened and died near Erie, transferred his adquarters to the neighborhood of the lakes, where a county named er him was formed, which included the northwest of Ohio, all of chigan, and the northeast of Indiana. During this same year settlents were formed at the present city of Chillicothe, along the Miami m Middletown to Piqua, while in the more distant West, settlers and culators began to appear in great numbers. In September, the city Cleveland was laid out, and during the summer and autumn, Samuel ckson and Jonathan Sharpless erected the first manufactory of ber-the "Redstone Paper Mill"-in the West. St. Louis contained ne seventy houses, and Detroit over three hundred, and along the er, contiguous to it, were more than three thousand inhabitants, stly French Canadians, Indians and half-breeds, scarcely any Ameriis venturing yet into that part of the Northwest.

The election of representatives for the territory had taken place, and the 4th of February. 1799. they convened at Losantiville_now

- Cincinnati, havi

the capital of the hers of the Legisl s ordinance. Th until the 16th of

lent selected as n

ennes, Robert Oliv Cincinnati, and ember the Territori Tere duly organize tee Council.

age of Governo her 20th, and on Oct Gen. William H , being a majority Gen. St. Clair.

hole number of act nor, were thirty

his veto. The mos the administration rotracted session and on the 30th of I Bryd to the office of elected to Congres

en day.

DIVISION OF TH

reased emigration convenient modes

ary operations of go Talmost impossible. the territory for civ ee to examine the This committee, on ree western countries t the years, and the immu Lost vile and abandoned 4 settlement

nati, having been named so by Gov. St. Clair, and consal of the Territory,-to nominate persons from whom the Legislature were to be chosen, in accordance with ance. This nomination being made, the Assembly he 16th of the following September. From those named lected as members of the council, Henry Vandenburg, obert Oliver, of Marietta, James Findlay and Jacob innati, and David Vance, of Vanceville. On the 16th e Territorial Legislature met, and on the 24th the two y organized, Henry Vandenburg being elected Presincil.

of Governor St. Clair was addressed to the Legislature and on October 13th that body elected as a delegate to William Henry Harrison, who received eleven of the ; a majority of one over his opponent, Arthur St. Clair, Clair.

nber of acts passed at this session, and approved by ere thirty-seven. Eleven others were passed, but >. The most important of those passed related to the ministration, and to taxation. On the 19th of Decemed session of the first Legislature in the West was le 30th of December the President nominated Charles the office of Secretary of the Territory vice Wm. Henry I to Congress. The Senate confirmed his nomination

at a division of said territory into two distinct and separate governments should be de; and that such division be made by a line beginning at the mouth of the Great ami River, running directly north until it intersects the boundary between the ited States and Canada."

The report was accepted by Congress, and, in accordance with its
ggestions, that body passed an act extinguishing the Northwest Terri-
ry, which act was approved May 7. Among its provisions were these:
'That from and after July 4 next, all that part of the territory of the United States
rthwest of the Ohio River, which lies to the westward of a line beginning at a point
the Ohio, opposite to the mouth of the Kentucky River, and running thence to Fort
covery, and thence north until it shall intersect the territorial line between the
ited States and Canada, shall, for the purpose of temporary government, constitute a
parate territory, and be called the Indiana Territory."

After providing for the exercise of the civil and criminal powers of
e territories, and other provisions, the act further provides:
'That until it shall otherwise be ordered by the Legislatures of the said Territories,
spectively, Chillicothe, on the Scioto River, shall be the seat of government of the
ritory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River; and that St. Vincennes, on
e Wabash River, shall be the seat of government for the Indiana Territory."
Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison was appointed Governor of the Indiana
rritory, and entered upon his duties about a year later. Connecticut
so, about this time, released her claims to the reserve, and in March.
law was passed accepting this cession. Settlements had been made
on thirty-five of the townships in the reserve, mills had been built,
d seven hundred miles of road cut in various directions. On the 3d
November the General Assembly met at Chillicothe. Near the close
the year, the first missionary on the Connecticut Reserve came, who
und no township containing more than eleven families. It was upon
e first of October that the secret treaty had been made between
apoleon and the King of Spain, whereby the latter agreed to cede to
ance the province of Louisiana.

In January, 1802, the Assembly of the Northwestern Territory char-
red the college at Athens. From the earliest dawn of the western
lonies, education was promptly provided for, and as early as 1787,
wspapers were issued from Pittsburgh and Kentucky, and largely
ad throughout the frontier settlements. Before the close of this year,
e Congress of the United States granted to the citizens of the North-
estern Territory the formation of a State government. One of the
ovisions of the "compact of 1787" provided that whenever the num-
r of inhabitants within prescribed limits exceeded 45,000, they should

fing its limits.

the new State o
its southern bou
Lehigan were no
the State of Michig
Barrison, while re
Indians, thereby
ble in the histor
Tree by the United
e domain of the U
west of the Mi
the Northwest
part of this narra
this history will r
pear large grants of
e of Representati
ng the College Tow
the close of the ye
from the various
Ilinois, and on th

Lois, whereby over
engines. Measures
and about Detroit
ett, the Indian age
arted as follows up-
Town of Detroit-the cha
2 Louis XIV. of France
at Quebec. Of thos
by the town and Fort Le
which were added twer
A stockade incloses the
es, are in a state of gr
ad intersect each other
elegant."

this year, Congress
lege, and began to o
country now compr

with settle