. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. ork. A treaty was made, and by itthe Iroquois, who had been pressing west along the southernshores of Lake Erie, were in fact shut out from any furtheradvance in that direction. The pretensions of the Six Nationsto make sale of this territory angered the western tribes, whoclaimed it as within their own patrimony. This rendered itnecessary to placate those discontents. Fort Mcintosh had fallen into disrepair since 1783, and wasnow refitted
. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. ork. A treaty was made, and by itthe Iroquois, who had been pressing west along the southernshores of Lake Erie, were in fact shut out from any furtheradvance in that direction. The pretensions of the Six Nationsto make sale of this territory angered the western tribes, whoclaimed it as within their own patrimony. This rendered itnecessary to placate those discontents. Fort Mcintosh had fallen into disrepair since 1783, and wasnow refitted; and here, on January 21, 1785. the American INDIAN RESER VA TIoX. 269 commissioners, Isaac Lane, George Rogers Clark, and SamuelH. Parsons, met representatives of the AYyandots, Delawai-es,Cliippewas, and Ottawas. It was now agreed for a satisfactoryconsideration that a region in the northwest of the presentState of Ohio should remain inviolably in the Indian posses-sion, except that the whites should be allowed tracts, six milessquare, about any militaiy post which was within the region thus reserved stretched on Lake Erie from Caya-. y^^ ? sr*<—, < i« FORT McINTOSH. [After a plate in The Columbian Magazine, January. 1790. See the same sketch revamped inPeiuisylvania Archives, second series, vol. xiv.] hoga to the Maumee. Its easterly line ran by the Cayahogaand the Tuscarawas to near Fort Lawrence. The southern lineextended thence to the portage connecting the Miami and theMaumee, and by the latter stream the line extended to the , on February 25, 1785, writing from New York, informedJefferson that Arthur Lee had just returned from the Indiancountry, and had reported that the new treaty had securedthirty million acres for coming settlements. There were allthe while opposing views as to the desirability of acquiringthe Indian title beyond the Miami, and so to the Mississippi. 270 THE INSECURITY OF THE NORTHWEST. Pickering- was amo
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