. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. ion of a code of were temporarily devised, pending the arrival of theirgovernor, and made public by being nailed to a tree. Theyselected a man of repute among them, Return Jonathan Meigs,to be responsible for their enforcement. Within a few seasons, something like twenty thousand soulsfloated down the Ohio to such expectant, law-abiding communi-ties, and it remained to be seen whether these novel conditionsof civilized life in t
. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. ion of a code of were temporarily devised, pending the arrival of theirgovernor, and made public by being nailed to a tree. Theyselected a man of repute among them, Return Jonathan Meigs,to be responsible for their enforcement. Within a few seasons, something like twenty thousand soulsfloated down the Ohio to such expectant, law-abiding communi-ties, and it remained to be seen whether these novel conditionsof civilized life in the western wilderness would have a benefi-cent effect upon the five thousand savage warriors who madetheir homes between the Ohio and the lakes. The colonys working parties in the field were from the firstprudently protected by armed patrols. There were, indeed,occasional alarms, compelling the withdrawal of everybody tothe shelter of the stockade, but there was no serious disturbanceof their quiet beyond an attack upon an outpost which theysoon established up the Muskingum. A few Mingoes andother savage desperadoes wandered on the Scioto, and from a. MARIETTA.[This cut is from Harriss Journal of a Tour in 1S03.~\ 304 THE NORTHWEST OCCUPIED. high rock on the Virginia bank, nearly opposite its mouth, theIndian lookouts watched for the descending boats, and some-times lured them to destruction; but above the Muskingumthere was little danger, and the bed and blanket linings of thelow cabins on the emigrants boats rarely received in theseupper reaches of the Ohio the bullets of the skulking foe. Soit was that they who passed beyond, bound for Kentucky, ranthe larger hazard ; but the risks did not produce great hesitancyamong them. By the end of the summer of 1788, there wereless than one hundred and fifty adult males in the Muskingumcolony ; while for the previous twelve months, something likelive hundred boats, carrying ten thousand emigrants, wereknown to have passed Fort Harmar,
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