The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . edations of French cruisers fitted out in the UnitedStates, were to be settled by commissions; the negroescarried away by the British in 1783 were not to be paidfor; the Northwestern posts were to be surrendered onor before June 1, 1797, but there was to be free inter-course across the border, and free navigation of theMississippi, the duties on goods to be uniform with thosepaid at the sea-coast ports of entry; all ambiguities inthe boundaries were to be removed by a commission ofsurvey ; American vessels were to be allowed to trade,under restricti
The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . edations of French cruisers fitted out in the UnitedStates, were to be settled by commissions; the negroescarried away by the British in 1783 were not to be paidfor; the Northwestern posts were to be surrendered onor before June 1, 1797, but there was to be free inter-course across the border, and free navigation of theMississippi, the duties on goods to be uniform with thosepaid at the sea-coast ports of entry; all ambiguities inthe boundaries were to be removed by a commission ofsurvey ; American vessels were to be allowed to trade,under restrictions, with the British West Indies ; andthere were other provisions of decided advantage to thiscountry. This treaty, although bitterly assailed at first,was ratified by the Senate; and the House, on April 30,179G, agreed to the appropriation required to carry outits provisions, in spite of the opposition of Madison The Senate, however, provided for the sus- 1 For a discussion of the treaty see Dr. James B. Angells judicial 368. JOHN JAY UNITED STATES WIN NORTHWEST POSTS pension of the article relative to West Indian trade, and,pending the agreement of England to the amendment,the execution of the treaty was delayed. In the spring of 1796 a second New England colo-ny, led by Moses Cleveland, Augustus Porter, and SethPease, assembled at Schenectady, New York, to makea wilderness journey and to plant on the shores of LakeErie the colony of New Connecticut. From the Con-necticut legislature of 1792 came grants of a halfmillion acres of Fire Lands, to be located at the westend of the territory reserved in the cession of thestate to compensate the sufferers from the Britishravages on its coasts; and in September, 1795, thestate had sold to John Caldwell, Jonathan Brace, andJohn Morgan, as trustees for the Connecticut LandCompany, three million acres of its reserve at fortycents per acre. Provided with quit-claim deeds, theConnecticut immigrants met, near Buffalo, Red Ja
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