The discovery and conquests of the Northwest : including the early history of Chicago, Detroit, Vincennes, StLouis, FtWayne, Prairie du Chien, Marietta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, etc., etc., and incidents of pioneer life in the region of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley . ^ from the lakes. On the 9th of July, 1788, St. Clair arrived at Marietta, and a8Governor of the Northwest Territory, set the necessary machin-ery in motion to form a government agreeable to his appoint-ment by Washington, the President of the United States. The first county was laid out with dimensions large enough to
The discovery and conquests of the Northwest : including the early history of Chicago, Detroit, Vincennes, StLouis, FtWayne, Prairie du Chien, Marietta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, etc., etc., and incidents of pioneer life in the region of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley . ^ from the lakes. On the 9th of July, 1788, St. Clair arrived at Marietta, and a8Governor of the Northwest Territory, set the necessary machin-ery in motion to form a government agreeable to his appoint-ment by Washington, the President of the United States. The first county was laid out with dimensions large enough toinchide all the settlements around Marietta, and was namedWashington county. About the first of June, 1T90, the Gov-ernor, With the Judges of the Superior Court, descended the Ohioto Cincinnati, and laid out Hamilton county. A few weeks laterhe, with AVinthrop Sargent, Secretary of the Territory, proceededto Kaskaskia, in the Illinois country, and organized St. Claircounty. Knox county, around Yincennes, was soon afterwards laid each of these four counties, courts were established on a modelwhich has not been materially changed Courts Established in the North West. 193 The Indians beheld these innovations into their country withrueful thoughts. The United States had neither surveyed nor soldany of these lands that had not been boii<2:ht and paid for throughtreaties with certain chiefs, but it was claimed by the great nifissof Indians that these chiefs had no authority to sell the lands. To enumerate the various treaties by which the first purchaseswere made along the Ohio river, would fill a volume with monot-onous formula. They are preserved in government archives, butare seldom referred to now. They were the instruments by which the Indian was drivenfrom his native soil, and having executed their mission, are filedaway like writs of ejectment after having been served. In al-most all cases they were signed by the Indians under a pressurefrom which they could
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