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Although his protestations of peace and friendship were positive and assuring, he was afterward found implicated with the visionary but exterminating scheme of the pretenders, Tecumseh and his fanatical brother. Touching his duplicity, a single incident will serve our purpose. In 1800 he agreed to discover to a company a valuable mine on the Kentucky River. His demands for rewards increased with the eagerness of the company. As he was sustained at their expense, he was in no haste to conclude the negotiations. When at length terms were closed, the horses, goods, and money delivered, Blue Jacket and an associate chief, and their families, were escorted to Kentucky in great pomp. They were treated in a very flattering manner, their every want being anticipated. When the fabled region was reached the chief spent some time in fasting, praying, and powwowing to obtain the Great Spirit's consent to reveal the hiding-place of the secret wealth. The answer, obtained in a dream, was about as satisfactory as the usual dream revelation, and many days were spent in fruitless search. Failing to find the promised treasure, he threw the responsibility upon his eyes, which were bedimmed by age, and promised to send hi3 son, who was young and knew the exact spot for which they sought. The son, of course, came not, and the Blue Jacket Mining Association, like many others of later date, abandoned the project to enter bankruptcy. Prior to the war of 1812 he lived upon the Auglaize, engaged in the sale of liquor at Wapakoneta, but after the disastrous results of that war he became dissatisfied and discouraged, went West, and is believed to have died in Illinois, at the present site of Peoria.

Northwest Territory The Title Of Virginia, And Her Deed Of Cession

Virginia acquired title to the great Northwest by its several charters, granted by James I., bearing dates respectively April 10, 1606; May 23, 1609; March 12, 1611. The Colony of Virginia first attempted to exercise authority in, or jurisdiction over, that portion of its extensive domains that was organized by the Ordinance of '87 into "the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio," when in 1769, the House of Burgess of said Colony passed an act establishing the county of Botetourt, with the Mississippi River as its western boundary. The aforesaid act recited that, " Whereas, the people situated on the Mississippi, in the said county of Botetourt, will be very remote from the court-house, and must necessarily become a separate county, as soon as their numbers are suf ficient, which, probably, will happen in a short time, be it therefore enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that the inhabitants of that part of the said county of Botetourt which lies on the said waters shall be exempted from the payment of any levies to be laid by the said county court for the purpose of building a court-house and prison for the said county." was more in name than reality, until in 1778, after the conquest of the country by General George Rogers Clark, when the Virginia Legislature organized the county of Illinois, embracing within its limits all the territory ownedr by Virginia west of the Ohio River. Col. John Todd served, under appointment received from the Governor of Virginia, as civil commandant, and lieutenant of the county, until his death, at the battle of Blue Licks, in 1782, less than two years before Virginia ceded the country to the United States. Timothy de Montbrun was his successor.

In 1783 "the General Assembly of Virginia passed an act authorizing the Virginia delegates in Congress to convey to the United States all the right of that Commonwealth to the territory northwestward of the river Ohio."

Pursuant to the foregoing action of the General Assembly of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Hardy, Arthur Lee, and James Monroe, Virginia's delegates in Congress, did, as per deed of cession, on the first day of March, 1784, it being the eighth year of American Independence, "convey (in the name, and for and on behalf of, the said Commonwealth ), transfer, assign, and make over unto the United States in Congress assembled, for the benefit of said States, Virginia inclusive, all right, title, and claim, as well of soil as of jurisdiction, to the territory of said State lying and being to the northwest of the river Ohio." Upon the presentation of said deed of cession, Congress resolved, on the same day, " that it be accepted, and the same be recorded and enrolled among the acts of the United States in Congress assembled."

The United States having thus secured title to the " Great Northwest," Congress soon deemed it advisable to take the preliminary steps looking to the permanent establishment of civil government in the new and extensive territory of which that body had just become the legal custodian. Accordingly, after much mature deliberation and careful consideration of the subject, as well as prolonged discussion of the important questions involved, they, on the 13th of July, 1781, gave to the world the results of their deliberations in " An ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the river Ohio," which has come to be best known as " The Ordinance of '87," sometimes also called " The Ordinance of Freedom." As said ordinance was the fundamental law, the Constitution, so to speak, of the great Northwest, upon which were based, and with which harmonized, all our territorial enactments, as well as all our subsequent State legislation, and, moreover, as it is to that wise, statesmanlike document that we are indebted for much of our prosperity and greatness, we give it entire, as follows : -

Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled , That the said territory, for the purpose of temporary government, be one district, subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient.

Be it ordained by the authority aforesaid , That the estates both of resident and non-resident proprietors in the said territory, dying intestate, shall descend to and be efistributed among their children, and the descendants of a deceased child, in equal parts ; the descendants of a deceased child or grandchild to take the share of their deceased parent in equal parts among them; and where there shall be no children or descendants, then in equal parts to the next of kin, in equal degree ; and among collaterals, the children of a deceased brother or sister of the intestate shall have, in equal parts among them, their deceased parents' share; and there shall, in no case, be a distinction between kindred of the whole and half blood ; saving in all cases to the widow of the intestate her third part of the real estate for life, and one-third part of the personal estate ; and this law, relative to descents and dower, shall remain in full force until altered by the legislature of the district. And until the governor and judges shall adopt laws, as hereinafter mentioned, estates in the said territory may be devised or bequeathed by wills, in writing, signed and sealed by him or her, in whom the estate may be (being of full age), and attested by three witnesses; and real estate may be conveyed by lease and release, or bargain and sale, signed, sealed, and delivered by the person, being of full age, in whom the estate may be, and attested by two witnesses, provided such wills be duly proved, and such conveyances be acknowledged, or the execution thereof duly proved, and be recorded within one year after proper magistrates, courts, and registers shall be appointed for that purpose; and personal property may be transferred by delivery; saving, however, to the French and Canadian inhabitants, and other settlers of the Kaskaskies, St. Vincents, and the neighboring villages, who have heretofore professed themselves citizens of Virginia, their laws and customs now in force among them, relative to the descent and conveyance of property.

Be it ordained by the authority aforesaid , That there shall be appointed, from time to time, by Congress, a governor, whose commission shall continue in force for the term of three years, unless sooner revoked by Congress; he shall reside in the district, and have a freehold estate therein, in one thousand acres of land, while in the exercise of his office.

There shall be appointed, from time to time, by Congress, a secretary, whose commission shall continue in force for four years, unless sooner revoked; he shall reside in the district, and have a freehold estate therein in five hundred acres of land, while in the exercise of his office ; it shall be his duty to keep and preserve the acts and laws passed by the legislature, and the public records of the district, and the proceedings of the governor in his executive department ; and transmit authentic copies of such acts and proceedings, every six months, to the Secretary of Congress. There shall also be appointed a court, to consist of three judges, any two of whom to form a court, who shall have a common law jurisdiction, and reside in the district, and have each therein a freehold estate in five hundred acres of land, while in the exercise of their offices ; and their commissions shall continue in force during good behavior.

The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district such laws of the original States, criminal and civil, as may be necessary and best suited to the circumstances, and report them to Congress from time to time ; which laws shall be in force in the district until the organization of the General Assembly therein, unless disapproved of by Congress ; but afterward the legislature shall have authority to alter them as they shall think fit.

The Governor, for the time being, shall be commander-in-chief of the militia, appoint and commission all officers in the same, below the rank of general officers ; all general officers shall be appointed and commissioned by Congress.

Previous to the organization of the General Assembly, the Governor shall appoint such magistrates and other civil officers, in each county or township, as lie shall find necessary for the preservation of the peace and good order in the same. After the General Assembly shall be organized, the powers and duties of magistrates and other civil officers shall be regulated and defined by the said Assembly ; but all magistrates and other civil officers, not herein otherwise directed, shall, during the continuance of this temporary government, be appointed by the Governor.

For the prevention of crimes and injuries, the laws to be adopted or made shall have force in all parts of the district, and for the execution of process, criminal and civil, the Governor shall make proper divisions thereof; and he shall proceed, from time to time, as circumstances may require, to lay out the parts of the district in which the Indian titles shall have been extinguished, into counties and townships, subject, however, to such alterations as may thereafter be made by the legislature.

So soon as there shall be five thousand free male inhabitants, of full age, in the district, upon giving proof thereof to the Governor, they shall receive authority, with time and place, to elect representatives from their counties or townships, to represent them in the General Assembly: provided, that for every flvfe hundred free male inhabitants there shall be one representative, and so on, progressively, with the number of free male inhabitants, shall the right of representation increase, until the number of representatives shall amount to twenty-five; after which the number and proportion of representatives shall be regulated by the legislature : provided that no person be eligible or qualified to act as a representative unless he shall have been a citizen of one of the United States three years, and be a resident in the district, or unless he shall have resided in the district three years; and, in either case, shall likewise hold in his own right, in fee simple, two hundred acres of land within the same: provided, also, that a freehold in fifty acres of land in the district, having been a citizen of one of the States, and being resident in the district, or the like freehold and two years' residence in the district, shall be necessary to qualify a man as an elector of a representative.

The representatives thus elected shall serve for the term of two years ; and, in case of the death of a representative, or removal from office, the Governor shall issue a writ to the county or township for which he was a member to elect another in his stead, to serve for the residue of the term.

The General Assembly, or Legislature, shall consist of the Governor, Legislative Council, and a House of Representatives. The Legislative Council shall consist of five members, to continue in office five years, unless sooner removed by Congress, any three of whom to be a quorum, and the members of the Council shall be nominated and appointed in the following manner, to wit: as soon as representatives shall be elected the Governor shall appoint a time and place for them to meet together, and, when met, they shall nominate ten persons, residents in the district, and each possessed of a freehold in five hundred acres of land, and return their names to Congress, five of whom Congress shall appoint and commission to serve as aforesaid : and whenever a vacancy shall happen in the Council, by death or removal from office, the House of Representatives shall nominate two persons, qualified as aforesaid, for each vacancy, and return their names to Congress, one of whom Congress shall appoint and commission for the residue of the term. And every five years, four months at least before the expiration of the time of service of the mem- bers of Council, the said House shall nominate ten persons, qualified as aforesaid, and return their names to Congress, five of whom Congress shall appoint and commission to serve as members of the Council five years, unless sooner removed. And the Governor, Legislative Council, and House of Representatives shall have authority to make laws, in all cases, for the good government of the district, not repugnant to the principles and articles in this ordinance established and declared. And all bills, having passed by a majority in the House, and by a majority in the Council, shall be referred to the Governor for his assent; but no bill or legislative act whatever shall be of any force without his assent. The Governor shall have power to convene, prorogue, and dissolve the General Assembly when, in his opinion, it shall be expedient.

The governor, judges, legislative council, secretary, and such other officers as Congress shall appoint in the district, shall take an oath or affirmation of fidelity, and of office; the governor before the president of Congress, and all other officers before the governor. As soon as a Legislature shall be formed in the district, the council and house assembled in one room, shall have authority, by joint ballot, to elect a delegate to Congress, who shall have a seat in Congress, with a right of debating, but not of voting, during this temporary government.

And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws, and constitutions are erected ; to fix and establish these principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions, and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory; to provide, also, for the establishment of States, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original States, at as early periods as may be consistent with general interest,

It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid , That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original States and the people and States in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit:

Article 1. No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments in th# said territory.

Art. 2. The inhabitants of the said territory shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus and of trial by jury ; of a proportionate representation of the people in the Legislature, and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law. All persons shall be bailable, unless for capital offences, where the proof shall be evident, or the presumption great. All fines shall be moderate, and no cruel or unusual punishments shall be inflicted. No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land ; and, should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same. And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made, or have force in the said territory, that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud, previously formed.

Art. 3. Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the mcaus of education shall forever be encouraged. The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians ; their lands and property shall never be taken away from them without their consent ; and in their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded injustice and humanity shall, from time to time, be made for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.

Art. 4. The said territory, and the States which may be formed therein, shall forever remain a part of this confederacy of the United States of America, subject to the articles of confederation, and to such alterations therein as shall be constitutionally made, and to all the acts and ordinances of the United States in Congress assembled, conformable thereto. The inhabitants and settlers in the said territory shall be subject to pay a part of the federal debts, contracted or to be contracted, and a proportional part of the expenses of government, to be apportioned on them by Congress, according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States; and the taxes for paying their proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the district or districts, or new States, as in the original States, within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled. The Legislatures of those districts, or new States, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents. The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.

Art. 5. There shall be formed in the said territory not less than three nor more than five States; and the boundaries of the States, as soon as Virginia shall alter her act of cession, and consent to the same, shall become fixed and established as follows, to wit: The western State in the said territory shall be bounded by the Mississippi, the Ohio, and Wabash rivers; a direct line drawn from the Wabash and Port Vincents due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada ; and by the said territorial line to the Lake of the Woods and Mississippi. The middle State shall lx: bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from Point Vincents to the Ohio, by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line. The eastern State shall be bounded by the last-mentioned direct line, the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line: provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered that, if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan. And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government : provided the constitution and government so to be formed shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles ; and, so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand.

Art. 6. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: provided, always, that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.

Up to the time of the passage of the above ordinance there had been no permanent settlements by white men established upon territory embraced within the boundaries given to the Northwest Territory, except the few French villages and their immediate vicinities, in the western and northwestern portions of it. If any such existed within the present limits of Ohio, they must have been situated along the Maumee River, and were of small extent. The Government had hitherto, for the sake of peace, discouraged, and by military force prevented, all attempts of white settlers to occupy lands belonging to the Indians. The chief of those French villages were Detroit, on the Detroit River ; St. Vincents, on the Wabash; Cahokia, five miles below St. Louis; St. Philip, fotlyeight miles below St. Louis, on the Mississippi; Kaskaskia, on Kaskaskia

River, six miles above its mouth, which empties into the Mississippi seventy -five miles below St. Louis; Prnirie-du-Rocher, near Fort Chartres; and Fort Chartres, fifteen miles northwest from Kaskaskia. These were all small settlements or villages, whose aggregate inhabitants probably did not exceed three thousand.

The inhabitants of these remote settlements in the wilderness and on the prairies, says a late writer, " were of a peculiar character. Their intercourse with the Indians, and their seclusion from the world, developed among them peculiar characteristics. They assimilated themselves with the Indians, adopted their habits, and almost uniformly lived in harmony with them. They were illiterate, careless, contented, but without much industry, energy, or foresight. Some were hunters, trappers, and anglers, while others run birch-bark canoes by way of carrying on a small iuternal trade, and still others cultivated the soil. The traders, or voyageurs, were men fond of adventure, and of a wild, unrestrained, Indian sort of life, and would ascend many of the long rivers of the West almost to their sources in their birch-bark canoes, and load them with furs bought of the Indians. The canoes were light, and could easily be carried across the portages between streams."

There was attached to these French villages a "common field," for the free use of the villagers, every family, in proportion to the number of its members, being entitled to share in it. It was a large inclosed tract for farming purposes. There was also at each village a "common," or large inclosed tract, for pasturage and fuel purposes, and timber for building. If a head of a family was sick, or by any casualty was unable to labor, his portion of the "common field" was cultivated by his neighbors, and the crop gathered for the use of his family. " The French villagers," says the author of Western Annals, "were devout Catholics, who, under the guidance of their priests, attended punctually upon all the holidays and festivals, and performed faithfully all the outward duties and ceremonies of the Church. Aside from this, their religion was blended with their social feelings. Sundays, after mass, was the especial occasion for their games and assemblies. The dance was the popular amusement with them, and all classes, ages, sexes, and conditions, united by a common love of enjoyment, met together to participate in the exciting pleasure. They were indifferent about the acquisition of property for themselves or their children. Living in a fruitful country, which, moreover, abounded in fish and game, and where the necessaries of life could be procured with little labor, they were content to live in unambitious peace and comfortable poverty. Their agriculture was rude, their houses were humble, and they cultivated grain, also fruits and flowers; but they lived on from generation to generation without much change or improvement. In some instances they intermarried with the surrounding Indian tribes."

Most of these far-off western villages were protected by military posts, and some of them (notably Detroit, which for months had successfully resisted, in 1763, when in possession of the English, the attacks of the great Pontiac) had realized something of the "pride, pomp, and circumstances of glorious war." The morning guns of these forts had sounded the merry reveille upon the early breeze, waking the slumbering echoes of the forest, daily, for a century or more; the boom of their loud midday cannon across the broad prairies, and its reverberations from the cliffs beyond, had been heard for generations ; and their evening bugle had wailed plaintively its long-drawn, melancholy notes along the shores of the "Father of Waters" - the mighty river of the West - for more than a hundred years before the adoption of freedom's ordinance."

Organization Of The Ohio Land Company

While Congress had under consideration the measure for the organization of a territorial government northwest of the Ohio River, the preliminary steps were taken in Massachusetts towards the formation of the Ohio Land Company, for the purpose of making a purchase of a large tract of land in said territory, and settling upon it. Upon the passage of the ordinance by Congress, the aforesaid land company perfected its organization, and by its agents, Rev. Manasseh Cutler and Major Winthrop Sargent, made application to the Board of Treasury July 27, 1787, to become purchasers, said Board having been authorized four days before to make sales. The purchase, which was perfected October 27,

1787, embraced a tract of land containing about a million and a half of acres, situated within the present counties of Washington, Athens, Meigs, and Gallia, subject to the reservation of two townships of land six miles square, for the endowment of a college, since known as the Ohio University, at Athens; also every sixteenth section, set apart for the use of schools, as well as every twenty-ninth section, dedicated to the support of religious institutions; also sections eight, eleven, and twenty-six, which were reserved for the United States, for future sale. A fter these deductions were made, and that for donation lands, there remained only nine hundred and sixty-four thousand two hundred and eighty-five acres to be paid for by the Ohio Land Company, and for which patents were issued.

At a meeting of the directors of the company, held November 23, 1787, General Rufus Putnam was chosen superintendent of the company, and he accepted the position. Early in December six boat-builders and a number of other mechanics were sent forward to Simrall's Ferry (now West Newton), on the Youghiogheny River, under the command of Major Haffield White, where they arrived in January, and at once proceeded to build a boat for the use of the company'. Colonel Ebenezer Sproat, of Rhode Island, Anselm Tupper and John Matthews, of Massachusetts, and Colonel Return J. Meigs, of Connecticut, were appointed surveyors. Preliminary steps were also taken at this meeting to secure a teacher and chaplain, which resulted in the appointment of Rev. Daniel Story, who some time during the next year arrived at the mouth of the Muskingum, in the capacity of the first missionary and teacher from New England.

Early in the winter the remainder of the pioneers, with the surveyors, left their New England homes and started on their toilsome journey to the western wilderness. They passed on over the Alleghanies, and reached the Youghiogheny about the middle of February, where they r rejoined their companions who had preceded them.

The boat, called the " Mayflower," that was to transport the pioneers to their destination, was forty-five feet long, twelve feet wide, and of fifty tons burden, and was placed under the command of Captain Devol. "Her bows were raking, or curved like a galley, and strongly timbered; her sides were made bullet proof, and she was covered with a deck roof," so as to afford better protection against the hostile savages while floating down towards their western home, and during its occupancy there, before the completion of their cabins. All things being ready, they embarked at SimralPs Ferry', April 2, 1788, and passed down the Youghiogheny into the Monongahela, and thence into the Ohio, and down said river to the mouth of the Muskingum, where they arrived April 7, and then and there made the first permanent settlement of civilized men within the present limits of Ohio. These bold adventurers were reinforced by another company from Massachusetts, who, after a nine weeks' journey, arrived early in July, 1788.

Many of these Yankee colonists had been officers and soldiers in the Revolutionary army, and were, for the most part, men of intelligence aud character, and of sound judgment and ability. In short, they were just the kind of men to found a State in the wilderness. They possessed great energy of character, were enterprising, fond of adventure and daring, and were not to be intimidated by the formidable forests nor by the ferocious beasts sheltered therein, nor by the still more to be dreaded savages, who stealthily and with murderous intent roamed throughout their length and breadth. Their army experience had taught them what hardships and privations were, and they were quite willing to encounter them. A better set of men could not have been selected for pioneer settlers than were these New England colonists - those bravehearted, courageous hero-emigrants to the great Northwest, who, having triumphantly passed the fiery ordeal of the Revolution, volunteered to found a State and to establish American laws, American institutions, and American civilization in this the wilderness of the uncivilized West. If any State in our American Union ever had a better start in its incipient settlement than Ohio, we are not aware of it. General Washington, writing of these bold pioneers, said that " no colony in America was ever settled under such favorable auspices as that which has just commenced at the Muskingum. Information, property, and strength will be its characteristics. I know many of the settlers personally, and there never were men better calculated to promote the welfare of such a community." Having had a personal army acquaintance with Generals Putnam and

Parsons, and with Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs, and probably with many other leading members of this pioneer colony, his favorable opinion of them is entitled to great weight.

The First Settlement Under The Ordinance Of 1787

Of course no time was lost by the colonists in erecting their habitations, as well as in building a stockade fort, and in clearing land for the production of vegetables and grain for their subsistence, fifty acres of corn having been planted the first year. Their settlement was established upon the point of land between the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, just opposite and across the Muskingum from Fort Harmar, built in 1786, and at this time garrisoned by a small military force under command of Major Doughty. At a meeting held on the banks of the Muskingum, July 2, 1788, it was voted that Marietta should be the name of their town, it being thus named in honor of Maria Antoinette , Queen of France.

Survey8 And Grants Of The Public Lands

The first survey of the public lands northwest of the Ohio River was the seven ranges of Congress lands, and was done pursuant to an act of Congress of May 20, 1785. This tract of the seven ranges is bounded by a line of forty-two miles in length, running due west from the point where the western boundary line of Pennsylvania crosses the Ohio River; thence due south to the Ohio River, at the southeast corner of Marietta township, in Washington County; thence up said river to the place of beginning. The present counties of Jefferson, Columbiana, Carroll, Tuscarawas, Harrison, Guernsey, Belmont, Noble, Monroe, and Washington are, in whole or in part, within the seven ranges.

The second survey was that of the Ohio Company's purchase, made in pursuance of an act of Congress of July 23, 1785, though the contract was not completed with the Ohio Company until October 27, 1787. . Mention of its extent, also the conditions, reservations, and circumstances attending the purchase, have already been given. One hundred thousand acres of this tract, called donation lands, were reserved upon certain conditions as a free gift to actual settlers. Portions of the counties of Washington, Athens, and Gallia are within this tract, also the entire county of Meigs. The donation lands were in Washington County.

The next survey was the "Symmes purchase " and contiguous lands, situated to the north and west of it, and was made soon after the foregoing. The " Symmes purchase " embraced the entire Ohio River front between the Big Miami and Little Miami rivers, a distance of twentyseven miles, and reaching northwards a sufficient distance to include an area of one million of acres. The contract with Judge Symmes, made in October, 1787, was subsequently modified by act of Congress bearing date of May 5, 1792, and by an authorized act of the President of the United States of September 30, 1794, so as to amount to only 311,682 acres, exclusive of a reservation of fifteen acres around Fort Washington, of a square mile at the mouth of the Great Miami, of sections 16 and 29 in each township, the former of which Congress had reserved for educational and the latter for religious purposes, exclusive also of a township dedicated to the interests of a college; and sections 8, 11, and 26 which Congress reserved for future sale.

The tract of land situated between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers, known as the Virginia military lands , was never regularly surveyed into townships, but patents were issued by the President of the United States to such- persons (Virginians) as had rendered service on the continental establishment in the army of the United States (hence the name), and in the quantities to which they were entitled, according to the provisions of an act of Congress of August 10, 1790. " It embraces a body of 6570 square miles, or 4,204,800 acres of land. The following counties are situated in this tract, namely: Adams, Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Fayette, Highland, Madison, and Union entirely; and greater or less portions of the following, to wit: Marion, Delaware, Franklin, Pickaway, Ross, Pike, Scioto, Warren, Greene, Clarke, Champaign, Logan, and Hardin."

Connecticut ceded all lands in the Northwest to which she claimed title to the United States (except the tract which has been known as the " Western Reserve"), by deed of cession bearing date of September 14, .1786; and iu May, 1800, by act of the Legislature of said State, renounced all jurisdictional claim to the "territory called the Western Reserve of Connecticut." That tract of land was surveyed in 1796, and later into townships of five miles square, and in the aggregate contained about 3,800,000 acres, being one hundred and twenty miles long", and lying west of the Pennsylvania State line, all situated between forty-one degrees of north latitude and forty-two degrees and two minutes. Half a million of acres of the foregoing lands were set apart by the State of Connecticut in 1792 as a donation to the sufferers by fire (during the Revolutionary War) of the residents of Greenwich, New London, Norwalk, Fairfield, Danbury, New Haven, and other Connecticut villages whose property was burned by the British ; hence the name " Firelands " by which this tract taken from the western portion of the Reserve has been known. It is situated chiefly iu Huron and Erie counties, a small portion only being in Ottawa County. The entire Western Reserve embraces the present counties of Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga, Huron, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage, and Trumbull; also the greater portion of Mahoning and Summit, and very limited portions of Ashland and Ottawa.

French grant is a tract of 24,000 acres of land bordering on the Ohio River, within the present limits of Scioto County, granted by Congress in March, 1795, to certain French settlers of Gallipolis, who, through invalid titles, had lost their lands there. Twelve hundred acres were added to this grant in 1796, making a total of 25,200 acres.

The United Stales military lands were surveyed under the provisions of an act of Congress of June 1, 1796, and contained 2,560,000 acres. This tract was set apart to satisfy certain claims of the officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary War, hence the title by which it is known. It is bounded by the seven ranges on the east, by the Greenville Treaty line on the north, by the Congress and refugee lands on the south, and by the Scioto River on the west, including the county of Coshocton entire, and portions of the counties of Tuscarawas, Guernsey, Muskingum, Licking, Franklin, Delaware, Marion, Morrow, Knox, and Holmes.

The Moravian lands are three several tracts of 4000 acres each, situated, respectively, at Shoenbrun, Gnadenhutten, and Salem, all on the Tuscarawas River, now in Tuscarawas County. These lands were originally dedicated by an ordinance of Congress dated September 3, 1788, to the use of the Christianized Indians at those points, and by act of Congress of June 1, 1796, were surveyed and patents issued to the Society of the United Brethren, for the purposes above specified.

The refugee tract is a body of land containing 100,000 acres, granted by Congress February 18, 1801, to persons who fled from the British provinces during the Revolutionaiy War, and took up arms against the mother country and in behalf of the Colonies, and thereby lost their property by confiscation. This tract is four and one-half miles wide, and extends forty-eight miles eastward from the Scioto River at Columbus into Muskingum County. It includes portions of the counties of Franklin, Fairfield, Perry, Licking, and Muskingum.

Dohrman's grant is a township of land six miles square, containing 23,040 acres, situated in the southeastern part of Tuscarawas County. It was given to Arnold Henry Dohrman, a Portuguese merchant of Lisbon, by act of Congress of February 27, 1801, "in consideration of his having, during the Revolutionary War, given shelter and aid to the American cruisers and vessels of war."

The foregoing is a list of the principal land grants and surveys during otir Territorial history, in that portion of the Northwest that now constitutes the State of Ohio. There were canal land grants, Maumee road grants, and various others, but they belong to our State, and not to our Territorial history.

Treaties Made With The Indians

By the terms of the treaty of Fort Stanwix, concluded with the Iroquois or Six Nations (Mohawks, Onondagas, Senecas, Cayugas, Tuscaroras, and Oneidas), October 22, 1784, the indefinite claim of said confederacy to the greater part of the valley of the Ohio was extinguished. The commissioners of Congress were Oliver Wolcott, Richard Butler, and Arthur Lee. Cornplanter and Red Jacket represented the Indians.

all claim to the Ohio Valley, and established the boundary line between them and the United States to be the Cuyahoga River, and along the main branch of the Tuscarawas to the forks of said river near Fort Laurens, thence westwardly to the portage between the headwaters of the Great Miami and the Maumee or Miami of the Lakes, thence down said river to Lake Erie, and along said lake to the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. This treaty was negotiated by George Rogers Clark, Richard Butler, and Arthur Lee for the United States, and by the chiefs of the aforenamed tribes.

A similar relinquishment was effected by the treaty of Fort Finney (at the mouth of the Great Miami), concluded with the Shawnees January 31, 1786, the United States commissioners being the same as the foregoing, except the substitution of Samuel H. Parsons for Arthur Lee.

The treaty of Fort Harmar, held by Gen. St. Clair, January 9, 1789, was mainly confirmatory of the treaties previously made. So also was the treaty of Greenville, of August 3, 1795, made by Gen. Wayne on the part of the United States, and the chiefs of eleven of the most powerful tribes of the Northwestern Indians, which re-established the Indian boundary line through the present State of Ohio, and extended it from Loramie to Fort Recovery, and thence to the Ohio River, opposite the mouth of the Kentucky River.

The rights and titles acquired by the Indian tribes under the foregoing treaties were extinguished by the General Government, by purchase, in pursuance of treaties subsequently made. The Western Reserve tract west of the Cuj'ahoga River was secured by a treaty formed at Fort Industry in 1805. The lands west of Richland and Huron Counties and north of the boundary line to the western limits of Ohio were purchased by the United States in 1818. The last possession of the Delawares was purchased in 1829; and by a treaty made at Upper Sandusky, March 17, 1842, by Colonel John Johnston and the Wyandot chiefs, that last remnant of the Indian tribes in Ohio sold the last acre they owned within the limits of our State to the General Government, and retired the next year, to the Far West, settling at and near the mouth of Kansas River.

First Officers Of Tee Territort

Congress, in October, 1787, appointed Gen. Arthur St. Clair Governor, Major Winthrop Sargent Secretary, and James M. Varnum, Samuel H. Parsons, and John Armstrong Judges of the Territory, the latter of whom, however, having declined the appointment, John Cleves Symmes was appointed in his stead in February, 1788. On the 9th of July, 1788, Governor St. Clair arrived at Marietta, and finding the Secretary and a majority of the Judges present, proceeded to organize the Territory. The Governor and Judges (or a majority of them) were the sole legislative power during the existence of the first grade of Territorial government. Such laws as were in force in any of the States, and were deemed applicable to the condition of the people of the- Territory, could be adopted by the Governor and Judges, and, after publication, became operative, unless disapproved of by Congress, to which body certified copies of all laws thus adopted had to be forwarded by the Secretary of the Territory.

The further duty of the Judges, who were appointed to serve during good behavior, was to hold court four times a year, whenever the business of the Territory required it, but not more than once a year in any one county.

The Second Grade Of Territorial Government

After it should be ascertained that five thousand free male inhabitants actually resided within the Territory, the second grade of Territorial government could, of right, be established, which provided for a Legislative Council, and also an elective House of Representatives, the two composing the law-making power of the Territory, provided always that the Governor's assent to their acts was had. He possessed the absolute veto power, and no act of the two houses of the Legislature, even if passed by a unanimous vote in each branch, could become a law without his consent. The conditions that authorized the second grade of Territorial government, however, did not exist until 1798, and it was

Early Laws Of Tiie Territory

The first law was proclaimed July 25, 1788, and was entitled "An act for regulating and establishing the militia.-" Two days thereafter the Governor issued a proclamation establishing the county of Washington, which included all of the territory east of the Scioto River to which the Indian title had been extinguished, reaching northward to Lake Erie, the Ohio River and the Pennsylvania line being its eastern boundary; Marietta, the seat of the Territorial government, also becoming the county seat of Washington Countj'.

Quite a number of laws were necessarily adopted and published during 1788 and the following year. From 1790 to 1795 they published sixtyfour, thirty-four of them having been adopted at Cincinnati during the months of June, July, an(\ August of the last named year, by the Governor and Judges Symmes and Turner. They are known as the " Maxwell Code," from the name of the publisher, and were intended, says the author of " Western Annals," " to form a pretty complete body of statutory provisions." In 1798 eleven more were adopted. It was the published opinion of the late Chief Justice Chase, "that it may lie doubted whether any colony, at so early a period after its first establishment, ever had so good a code of laws." Among them was that "which provided that the common law of England, and all statutes in aid thereof, made previous to the fourth year of James I., should lie in full force within the Territorj*." Probably four-fifths of the laws adopted were selected from those in force in Pennsylvania; the others were mainly taken from the statutes of Virginia and Massachusetts.

Local Courts And Court Officers

Among the earliest laws adopted was one which provided for the institution of a county court of common pleas, to be composed of not less than three nor more than five Judges, commissioned by the Governor, who were to hold two sessions in each year. Pursuant to its provisions, the first session of said court was held in and for Washington County, September 2, 1788. The Judges of the Court were Gen. Rufus Putnam, Gen. Benjamin Tupper, and Col. Archibald Crary. Col. Return Jonathan Meigs was Clerk, and Col. Ebenezer Sproat was Sheriff. Elaborate details of the opening of this, the first court held in the Northwest Territory, have come down to us, showing it to have been a stylish, dignified proceeding. Briefly, " a procession was formed at the Point (the junction of the Muskingum with the Ohio River) of the inhabitants and the officers from Fort Harmar, who escorted the J udge of the court, the Governor of the Territory, and the Territorial Judges to the hall appropriated for that purpose, in the northwest block-house in "Campus Martius." " The procession," says Mitchener, " was headed by the Sheriff, with drawn sword and baton of office." "After prayer by Rev. Manasseh Cutler, the court was organized by reading the commissions of the Judges, Clerk, and Sheriff; after which the Sheriff proclaimed that the court was open for the administration of even-handed justice to the poor and the rich, to the guilty and the innocent, without respect of persons; none to be punished without a trial by their peers, and then in pursuance of the laws and evidence in the case."

On the 23d day of August, 1788, a law was promulgated for establishing " general courts of quarter sessions of the peace." This court was composed of not less than three nor more than five Justices of the Peace, appointed by the Governor, who were to hold four sessions in each year. The first session of this court was held at " Campus Martius" September 9, 1788. The commission appointing the Judges thereof was read. Gen. Rufus Putnam and Gen. Benjamin Tupper, says Mitchener, constituted the Justices of the quorum, and Isaac Pearce, Thomas Lord, and Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr., the assistant Justices; Col. Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr., was Clerk. Col. Ebenezer Sproat was Sheriff of Washington County fourteen years. The first grand jury of the Northwest Territory was impanelled by this court, and consisted of the following gentlemen : William Stacey {foreman), Nathaniel Cushing, Nathan Goodale, Charles Knowles, Anselm Tupper, Jonathan Stone, Oliver Rice, Ezra Lunt, John Matthews, George Ingersoll, Jonathan Devol, Jethro Putnam, Samuel Stebbins, and Jabez True.

Organization Of Counties

Washington Count}-, embracing the eastern half of the present State of Ohio, was the only organized county of the Northwest Territory until early in 1790, when the Governor proclaimed Hamilton County, which included all the territory between the Big and Little Miami Rivers, and extended north to the " Standing Stone Forks" on the first named stream.

When Proclaimed County Seats

Cincinnati at the close of the Territorial government was the largest town in the Territory, containing about one thousand inhabitants. It was incorporated in 1802, with the following as its first officers: President, David Zeigler; Recorder, Jacob Burnet; Trustees, Win. Ramsay, David E. Wade, Charles Avery, Wm. Stanley, John Reily, Samuel Dick, Wm. Ruffner; Assessor, Joseph Prince; Collector, Abram Cary; Town Marshal, James Smith.

Territorial Officers

It will be observed that Hamilton was the second county organized. There were situated within its limits, when organized, several flourishing villages, which had their origin during the closing months of 1788 and early in 1789. Columbia, situated at the mouth of the Little Miami, was the first of these laid out, its early settlers being Col. Benjamin Stites, of " Redstone Old Fort" (proprietor); William Goforth, John S. Gano, John Smith (a Baptist minister, who afterward became one of Ohio's first United States Senators), and others, numbering in all twenty-five persons or more, though some of them arrived a little later.

Cincinnati was the next in order of time, having been laid out early in 1789 by Colonel Robert Patterson, Matthias Denman, and Israel Ludlow. Several not very successful attempts had also been made at various points between Cincinnati and the mouth of the Great Miami by Judge Symmes.

The early settlers of Hamilton County wf>re principally from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky. Judges Symmes and Burnet were representative men in the Miami Valley from New Jersey ; Jeremiah Morrow and Judge Dunlavy from Pennsylvania; William H. Harrison and Wm. McMillan from Virginia; and Col. Robert Patterson and Rev. James Kemper from Kentucky.

The Scioto Valley, the next in order of time, was settled chiefly by Virginians and Kentuckians, represented by Col. Thomas Worthington and Gen. Nathaniel Massie, two of its prominent settlers.

The early settlements along Lake Erie, during the closing years of the eighteenth century, whose representative men were Governor Samuel Huntington and Hon. Benjamin Tappan, were established by men not a whit inferior to those above named, and the good that General Washington said of the New England Colony that settled Marietta could, with very slight modifications, be said of most of the settlers and pioneers of the aforesaid settlements.

Early Territorial Villages And Towns

The following is a list of the principal villages and towns of the Northwest Territory, started and built up during Territorial rule, with the time of the first survey of lots, together with the names of their proprietors : -

The following exhibit gives a full list of the officers of the Territory, with the date of service, including the delegates to Congress: Governor, Gen. Arthur St. Clair, served from 1788 to 1802. Secretaries, Winlhrop Sargent, served from 1788 to 1798; William H. Harrison, served from 1798 to 1799; Charles Willing Byrd, served from 1799 to 1803. The latter gentleman was also acting Governor during the closing months of the Territorial government, Governor St. Clair having been removed from office in 1802 by President Jefferson. Treasurer, John Armstrong, served from 1792 to 1803; Territorial Delegates in Congress, William H. Harrison, served from 1799 to 1800; William McMillan, served from 1800 to 1801 ; Paul Fearing, served from 1801 to 1803.

Territorial Judges . - James Mitchell Vnrnum, Samuel Holden Parsons, and John Armstrong were appointed Judges for the Northwest Territory, by Congress, in October, 1787 ; the latter, however, declined, and John Cleves Symmes was appointed to the vacancy in February, 1788, and he accepted.

James M. Varnum died in January, 1789, and William Barton was appointed his successor, but declined the appointment; George Turner, however, in 1789, accepted it. On the 10th of November, 1789, Judge Parsons was drowned in attempting to cross Big Beaver Creek, and Rufus Putnam became his successor, March 31, 1790. In 1796 he resigned, and Joseph Gilman succeeded him. The Territorial court was composed of three judges, two of whom constituted a quornm for judicial purposes, and also for the exercise of legislative functions, in cooperation with the Governor. '

End Of Service

Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr., was appointed (says Judge Burnet) after the first session of the Territorial Legislature, of which he was a member, and probably continued in office to the close of the Territorial government, but I have not been able to verify said conjecture.

From the time of the organization of the government of the " Northwest Territory," in 1788, until the ratification of the "treaty of Greenville," sometimes called "Wayne's treaty," in 1795, the attitude of many of the western Indian tribes towards the white settlers in the Northwest

Territory was that of extreme, unrelenting hostility. The military organization which had marched against them, before the establishment of civil government in the great Northwest, had signally failed to subjugate them, or secure a permanent cessation of hostilities. The disastrous expedition of General Braddock in 1755, of Miyor Wilkins in 1763, of Colonel Bradstreet in 1764, of Colonel Lochry in 1781, and of Colonel Crawford in 1782, and the disgraceful and murderous expedition against the Moravian Indians on the Tuscarawas, in the last-named year, only tended to inflame the hostile Indian tribes, and inspire them with greater courage in their hostile movements and aggressive measures against the white settlers. The fruitless, if not abortive, campaigns of Colonel McDonald in 1774, of General McIntosh in 1778, and of General Broadhead in 1781, of course, led to no salutary results. Even the successful campaigns of Colonel Boquet in 1763-4, of Lord Dunmore and General Lewis in 1774, and of General Geo. Rogers Clark in 1778, failed to secure a permanent peace with the western Indian tribes. The inhabitants of the Northwest Territory were, therefore, froip the 7th of April, 1788, when the first immigrants arrived at the mouth of the Muskingum, until the treaty of Greenville was concluded in August, 1795, constantly liable to the stealthy but deadly attacks of the perfidious, merciless savage tribes of the Northwest. But they met their dastardly, cruel, relentless foes in the spirit of genuine manhood - of true, determined, unflinching heroism I They were men worthy of the heroic age of the West! Bravely did they bear themselves during those seven years of toil and privations, of dread and apprehension, of suffering and sorrow, of blood and carnage.

To secure the speedy termination of those savage atrocities the National Government early organized a number of military expeditions, the first of which being that of General Harmar, in 1790, who was then commander-in-chief of the military department of the West. He had a few hundred regular troops under his command, stationed chiefly at Fort Harmar and at Fort Washington, which served as the nucleus of his army. The great body of his troops, however, numbering in all above fourteen hundred, were Pennsylvania and Kentucky volunteers, the former being under the immediate command of Colonel John Hardin, and the latter of Colonel Trotter. The expedition left Fort Washington and marched to the junction of the St. Joseph and St. Marys rivers (now Fort Wayne, Indiana), where detachments of the army, under command of Colonel Hardin, on the 19th and 22d day of October, encountered the enemy and suffered mortifying defeats. Of course, the campaign failed to give peace or relief from apprehended barbarities.

The next year General St. Clair, the Governor of the Territory, who had a Revolutionary record of patriotism and ability, organized an expedition, whose strength somewhat exceeded that of General Harmar's. It met with a most disastrous defeat, November 4, 1791, near the headwaters of the Wabash, now in Mercer County, Ohio, the battle-field being known as Fort Recovery. Of fifteen hundred men in the battle more than half of them were either killed or wounded, and proved a great calamity to the disheartened and greatly harassed pioneers of the Northwest Territory.

Immediately after the defeat of General St. Clair, the Federal Government took the preliminary steps to raise a large army to operate against the hostile tribes, for the purpose of finally and permanently subjugating them. Military preparations, however, progressed slowly, and the summer of 1794 had nearly passed before the confederated hostile Indian tribes were met in battle array by General Wayne's army. The battle was fought at the Maumee Rapids, near Perrysburg and Fort Meigs, in Wood County, Ohio, and is known as the battle of " Fallen Timbers," though sometimes called the "Battle of the Maumee." Wayne's army numbered more than three thousand men, well disciplined, and ably officered, sixteen hundred of whom being mounted volunteer troops from Kentucky, commanded by General Charles Scott, of said State, who was the second ranking officer in the army, and who, as well as General Henry Lee (the " Light-Horse Harry" of the Revolution) and General William Darke, had been favorably considered by President Washington in connection with the chief command of the expedition. The choice, however, fell upon General Wayne, the old companion-in-arms of the President, and to him is justly ascribed the honor of defeating the Indian tribes commanded by the celebrated Shawnee chief, Blue Jacket, on the

Maumee, August 20, 1794, and of permanently breaking the power of a very formidable Indian confederacy. Cessation of hostilities followed this victory, and a peace, which the general Government had vainly sought by friendly negotiation, was secured - a peace which continued for many years, even until after the Northwest Territory had "ceased to be," aiul the important incidents and events connected therewith had passed into history.

Organization Of The Second Grade Of Territorial Government

The Governor having satisfactorily ascertained that the conditions existed entitling the Territory to the second grade of government, that is, that there were " five thousand free male inhabitants of full age," within the territory, he, on the 29th day of October, 1798, took the preliminary steps to effect that object, by issuing his proclamation, directing the qualified voters to hold elections for Territorial Representatives on the third Monday of December, 1798. The election was held in pursuance of said proclamation, which resulted in the following gentlemen being chosen to constitute the popular branch of the Territorial Legislature for the ensuing two years : -

Members Of Territorial Legislature Of 1799-1800

The above-named gentlemen met at Cincinnati on the 22d of January, 1799, and nominated ten men, whose names they forwarded to the United States Congress, five of whom were to be selected by that body to constitute the Legislative Council of the Territory. They then adjourned to meet on the 16th of September, 1799.

On the 22d of March, 1799, either the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, or the President of the United States (authorities are not agreed), chose from among those whose names had been suggested to them the following gentlemen, to compose the first Legislative Council of the Northwest Territory, their term of office to continue five years, any three of whom to form a quorum : -

Jacob Burnet, of Cincinnati, Hamilton County; Henry Vandenburg, of Vincennes, Knox County; Robert Oliver, of Marietta, Washington County; James Findlay, of Cincinnati, Hamilton County; David Vance, of Vanceville, Jefferson County.

The ordinance of 1787 named Congress as the authority in whom was vested the right to select five from the list of ten persons to constitute the Territorial Council. But it will be borne in mind that said ordinance was passed by a Congress that legislated in pursuance of the Articles of Confederation, while yet we had neither President nor United States Senate, hence authority was given to Congress to make the selection. But it is highly probable that the aforesaid authority was subsequently transferred to the President, or to the Senate, or to them jointly.

First Council And House Of Representatives

Both the Council and House of Representatives met at Cincinnati September 16, 1799, and effected a permanent organization. The Council perfected its organization by the election of the following officers: President, Henry Vandenburg. Secretary, William C. Schenck. Doorkeeper, George Howard. Sergeant-at-Arms, Abraham Cary.

The House of Representatives completed its organization by electing, as its officers, the following gentlemen : Speaker of the House, Edward Tiffin. Clerk, John Riley. Door-keeper, Joshua Rowland. Sergeantat-Arms, Abraham Cary.

Thirty bills were passed at the first session of the Territorial Legislature, but the Governor vetoed eleven of them. They also elected William H. Harrison, then Secretary of the Territory, a delegate to Congress, by a vote of 11 to 10 that were cast for Arthur St. Clair, Jr., son of the Governor, then a promising young lawyer of Cincinnati, and who then held the office of Attorney-General of the Territory. The first session of the Territorial Legislature was prorogued by the Governor December 19, 1799, until the first Monday of November, 1800, at which time they reassembled and held the second session at Chillicothe, which, by 'an act of Congress of May 7, 1800, was made the seat of the Territorial Government until otherwise ordered by the Legislature. This, the second session of the Territorial Legislature, was of short duration, continuing only until December 9, 1800.

On May 9, 1800, Congress passed an act establishing the Indiana Territory, with boundaries including the present States of Indiana and Illinois, and William H. Harrison, having accepted the office of Governor of said Territory, it devolved upon the Territorial Legislature, at its second session, not only to elect a delegate to fill the vacancy occasioned by his resignation, but also to elect a delegate to serve during the succeeding Congress. William McMillan, of Cincinnati, was elected to fill the vacancy, and Paul Fearing, of Marietta, was elected to serve from the 4th of March, 1801, to the 4th of March, 1803. They were, both reputed to be men of ability.

By the organization of the Indiana Territory, the counties of St. Clair, Knox, and Randolph were taken out of the jurisdiction of the Northwest Territory, and with them, of course, Henry Yandenburg, of fcpox County, President of the Council; also, Shadrack Bond, of St. Clair County; John Small, of Knox County, and John Edgar, of Randolph Count}', members of the popular branch of the Legislature.

On the 23d of November, 1801, the third session of the Territorial Legislature was commenced at Chillicothe, pursuant to adjournment. The time for which the members of the House of Representatives were elected, having expired, and an election having been held, quite a number of new members appeared. The Council remained nearly as it was at the previous sessions, there being not more than two changes, perhaps only one, that of Solomon Sibley, of Detroit, Wayne County, who took the place of Henry Yandenburg, thrown into the new Territory. Robert Oliver, of Marietta, Washington County, was chosen President of the Council in place of Henry Vandenburg.

The officers of the House during its third session were as follows: - Speaker of the House, Edward Tiffin. Clerk, John Riley. Door-keeper, Edward Sherlock.

The third session of the Legislature continued from the 24th of November, 1801, until the 23d of January, 1802, when it adjourned to meet at Cincinnati on the fourth Monday of November following, but that fourth session was never held, for reasons made obvious by subsequent events.

Congress, on the 30th of April, 1802, had passed an " act to enable the people of the eastern division of the Territory northwest of the river Ohio to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and for other purposes." In pursuance of the aforesaid enactment, an election had been ordered and held throughout the eastern portion of the Territory, and members of a Constitutional Convention chosen, who met at Chillicothe on the first day of November, 1802, to perform the duty assigned them. When the time had arrived for commencing the fourth session of the Territorial Legislature, the aforesaid Constitutional Convention was in session, and had evidently nearly completed its labors, as it adjourned on the 29th of said month. The members of the Legislature (eight of whom being also members of the Convention, therefore, seeing that a speedy termination of the Territorial government was inevitable, deemed it inexpedient and unnecessary to hold the proposed session.

The Territorial government was ended by the organization of the State government, March 3, 1803, pursuant to the provisions of a constitution formed at Chillicothe, November 29, 1802, by the following named gentlemen: Joseph Darlington, Israel Donalson, and Thomas Kirker, of Adams County; James Caldwell and Elijah Woods, of Belmont County; Philip Gatch and James Sargent, of Clermont County ; Henry Abrams and Emanuel Carpenter, of Fairfield County ; Johu W. Browne, Charles Willing Bryd, Francis Dunlavy, William Goforth, John Kitchel, Jeremiah Morrow, John Paul, John Riley, John Smith, and John Wilson, of Hamilton County; Rudolph Bair, George Humphrey, John Milligan, Nathan Updegraff, and Bazaliel Wells, of Jefferson County ; Michael Baldwin, Edward Tiffin, James Grubb, Thomas Worthington, and Nathaniel Massie, of Ross County ; David Abbot and Samuel Huntington, of Trumbull County; Ephraim Cutler, Benjamin Ives Gilman, Rufus Putnam, and John Mclntire, of Washington County.

Joseph Darlington, of Adams County; Francis Dunlavy, Jeremiah Morrow, and John Smith, of Hamilton County; John Milligan, of Jefferson County; Edward Tiffin and Thomas Worthington, of Ross County; and Ephraim Cutler, of Washington County, were the eight gentlemen of the last Territorial Legislature that were also elected members of the Constitutional Convention.

Early Forts

We shall give the history and location of the various forts built during the Indian Wars by Gens. Harmar, St. Clair, Wayne, and Harrison, in order that the reader may more readily refer to them. Although we give a general history of forts in Northwest Territory, and particularly Ohio, the reader will bear in mind that there were but nine forts in the Maumee Yalley, viz., Fort Industry at Toledo, Fort Deposit at the head of the Rapids, Fort Wayne, Fort Miami, Fort Kekeonge at the head of the river, Fort Wayne, Fort Miami, Fort Meigs, and Fort Defiance.

A military post was established at Losantiville, now Cincinnati, and was named Fort Washington, after Gen. George Washington, which was built by Major Doughty in July, 1779. It was from this point that the first movement under Gen. Harmar was made against the Indians, he being the commaudant at the fort, and we may also add that the subse-

Gen. Harmar had four hundred efficient soldiers under his command, which were to be strengthened by fifteen hundred men, one thousand of them to be from Virginia and Kentucky, and five hundred from Pennsylvania, twelve hundred of which were to rendezvous at Fort Washington. The soldiers arrived about Sept. 24, and left Sept. SO, 1790. (See Gen. Harmar's biographical sketch.)

In the early part of September, 1791, the main body of Gen. St. Clair's army, under Gen. Butler, took up its line of march from Fort Washington, and moving northward twenty-five miles, on the eastern bank of the Great Miami, erected a fort which they called Fort Hamilton , after Gen. Alexander Hamilton, and which was completed Oct. 4, 1791. It was named by Gen. St. Clair, and was located within the present limits of Butler County, Ohio.

Geri. St. Clair's army marched from Fort Hamilton, a distance of fortytwo miles, and on Oct. 12, 1791, built Fort Jefferson, six miles south of Greenville, .Darke County, Ohio. It was located on the river in what is now Darke County, and was named in honor of Thomas Jefferson. The army remained until Oct. 24, marched nine days, and on Nov. 3 reached the site of the present town of Fort Recovery, Ohio, and encamped at the headwaters of the Wabash. (See Gen. St. Clair's biographical sketch.)

Gen. Wayne having received the appointment to the command of the Western troops against the Indians was gathering his forces from 1792 to August, 1793. Gen. Wayne left "Hobson's Choice," near Fort Washington, on Oct. 6, advanced to the southwest branch of the Great Miami, within six miles of Fort Jefferson, and in November, 1793, built Fort Greenville, which stood in the vicinity of what is now the town of Greenville, Darke County.

On Dec. 23, 1793, Gen. Wayne gave orders for the erection of a fort on the site of St. Clair's defeat in 1791. For that purpose he ordered Major Henry Barbee with eight companies of infantry and a detachment of artillery to proceed to the ground and erect a fort, which he named Fort Recovery.

In connection with the building of this fort we may state that on the arrival of the soldiers, and before they could pitch their tents, they were compelled to scrape the bones of St. Clair's soldiers together, and carry them out before they could make their beds. The next day six hundred skulls were found, and the bones were all burned.

Gen. Wayne built this fort August 2, 1794, on the south bank of the St. Marys River, in Section 24, Dublin Township, Mercer County, on the land now owned by Joseph Palmer, twelve miles east of the Indiana line. It was named by Gen. Wayne in honor of John Adams, Vice- President of the United States.

was commenced by Gen. Wayne August 8, 1794, at the junction of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers, and finished August 30. It consisted of slight earthworks - a stockade with four block-houses, one at each angle. The earthworks of the fort can to this day be readily traced.

was erected by Gen. Wayne in 1794, near the confluence of Swan Creek with the Maumee River, and placed in charge of Captain J. Rhea, who held the same until after the British evacuated all the posts in the Northwest Territory.

was built by Gen. Wayne on August 19, 1794, and is located seven miles from the foot of the rapids for the reception of stores and baggage, and hence the name of the fort, and to better reconnoitre the enemy's ground, which lay behind a thick, bushy wood and British fort (Fort Miami).

The site of Fort Wayne was at the junction of the St. Josephs and St. Marys rivers. It was commenced Sept. 17, and finished Oct. 22, 1794. It occupied a commanding position on the south side of the Maumee River, where the Maumee towns were Located.

Col. Hamtramek, on its completion, assumed command of the post with the following sub-legions: Capt. Kingsbury's, 1st; Capt. Greaton's, 2 ; Capt. Spark's and Reed's, 3 ; Capt. Preston's, 4, and Capt. Porter's artillery'. After firing fifteen rounds of cannon, Col. Hamtramek gave it the name of Fort Wayne, after their gallant and victorious General.

This fort was dismantled in 1804, when a new and larger one was built in its place. This was also taken down in 1815, and a more substantial one erected, which consisted of a stockade, block-houses, and officers' quarters.

erected prior to the settlement of the country, stood at Upper Piqua, on the west bank of the Miami River. It was used as a place of deposit for stores for the army of Wayne. The portage from here to Fort Loramie, fourteen miles, thence to SU Marys, twelve miles, was all the land carriage from the Ohio to Lake Erie. Loaded boats frequently ascended to Fort Loramie, the loading taken out and hauled to St. Marys, the boats also moved across on wheels, again loaded, and launched for Fort Wayne, Defiance, and the lake. The last commander of Fort Piqua was Captain J. N. Vischer, in 1794. During that year two freighted boats, guarded by an officer and twenty-three men, were attacked by the Indians near the fort, and all massacred. Capt. Vischer heard the firing, but from the weakness of his command, could render no assistance. The plan of the Indians doubtless was to make the attack in hearing of the fort, and thereby induce them to sally out in aid of their countrymen, defeat all, and take the fort. The commander was a discreet officer, and aware of the subtleness of the enemy', had the firmness to save the fort. The track of the pickets, the form of the river bastion, still mark the site of Fort Piqua.

About a mile west of Eaton, the county seat of Preble County, is the site of Fort St. Clair, erected in the severe winter of 1791-2 by Major John S. Gano, of the Territorial militia. Gen. Harrison, then an ensign, commanded a guard every other night for about three weeks, during the building of the fort. They had neither fire nor covering of any kind, and suffered much from the intense cold.

was a military post built in the war of 1812, and is nine miles north of Tiffin, on the west bank of the Sandusky River, and was occupied by Harrison's troops at the time of the attack on Fort Stephenson, which was only' a few miles below, on the river.

was built at a very early day, and was within the present limits of Sandusky City. This fort was gallantly defended by Colonel Croghan'on the 2d of August, 1813, against an overwhelming force of British and Indians.

was situated in Steubenville, and stood on North High Street, near the site of the female seminary. It was built in 1786 by Major Hamtramck, and was garrisoned by U nited States troops under the command of Col. Beatty, but was dismantled at the time of Wayne's victory in 1794, and other buildings. It was occupied as a military post until 1819, when the reservation on which it stood was sold. The remains of the buildings were removed about 1848.

In connection with the second structure, we would state that it was besieged by the Indians under Tecumseh and his brother, the prophet, in August and September, 1812, and was successfully defended until relieved by the troops under Gen. Harrison.

was built by Gen. Wayne in 1794, on Loramie's Creek, and is sixteen miles northwest of Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio. It received its name from a Frenchman named Loramie, who established it as a trading post and gave his name to the river which flows along its southern side.

There wore two forts by this name, both of which were built upon the same ground by Gen. Harmar, opposite and west of the Muskingum River, on an elevated piece of ground where Marietta now stands.

The first fort stood on what is called the "second bottom," being elevated above the ordinary flood of the river, while between it and the banks of the river was a lower or first bottom depressed about six feet, to which the descent was of a gradual slope. The first formed a regular hectagon, and the area embraced within its walls contained about threefourths of an acre. To communicate with Campus Martius from Fort Harmar a path was cut and cleaned through the forest.

The second fort was erected " on the right bank of the Muskingum River opposite to Marietta, and at its junction with the Ohio, and named in honor of Col. James Harmar, and was commenced in 1785, but not finished until 1786."

Col. Poague, with his regiment, built the fort at the Ottawa towns, on the Auglaize, twelve miles from St. Marys, and named Fort Amanda, in honor of his wife. This regiment was at the same time employed in constructing boats and canoes, and in escorting provision trains between the posts. These were some of the exertions and movements made in our territory in preparation for the main expedition contemplated against Malden.

The fort was situated near the west bank of the Auglaize River, with about an acre of land. The pickets were from ten to twelve feet high, and sunk two or three feet in the ground. There were four block-houses, one at each corner; the second story projected over the pickets three or four feet, and was pierced with port-holes, from which the soldiers could defend the fort in case of attack. The first story was occupied by soldiers and company officers as sleeping rooms. The block-house in the southeast corner was the largest, and used mainly as officers' quarters.

There was also a large cabin in the centre of the fort, which was used as a storehouse for supplies for the army, as the soldiers wintered all one winter, if not two, at this point. Again, the old fort was used as one of the first post-offices in Allen County, as well as the first place of preaching.

Fort Amanda served as an intermediate storehouse and point of concentration between St. Marys, Urbana, and Upper Sandusky on the one side, and Forts Wayne and Defiance on the other. Here a cemetery was established for the interment of the nation's dead during the occupation of the fort. This cemetery was continued in use by the whites after the settlement, and is still a monument to that army. As conflicting reports are still current as to the number of soldiers here interred, an effort has been made to obtain information through all channels yielding a promise of data.

In this direction an application was made to the War Department, through Hon. J. A. Garfield, with the result portrayed in the subjoined letter: -

Sir: I have the honor to return herewith the letter of your correspondent, Mr. Sutton, referred to this office by your indorsement of the 19th instant, and to inform you that there is no record in this office of " Fort Amanda, Ohio," or its garrison.

The records of the "War of 1812" do not show the place of burial in any case, and nothing relating to the subject of Mr. Sutton's inquiry can be found in the records of this office, which for 1813 and 1814 are incomplete, having been partially destroyed by the British forces in 1814.

The old fort east of Wapakoneta was built by the French in 1748, and was called Fort Au Glaize, the location of which is described in an Atlas published at Paris, par le Rouge, Ing r Geographe du Roi, rue des Grands Augustins, 1777, and corrected by M. Hawkins, Brig.-General of the King's Army in 1776. A volume of the Atlas can be found in the library of the Hon. F. Bourquin, of Camden, New Jersey.

was built by Gen. L. McIntosh in October, 1778, he having succeeded Gen. Hand in the command. This fort was built for the reception and security of prisoners and slaves upon the Indian side of the Ohio River, with barracks for a regiment. Gen. Arthur Lee in 1784 thus describes it: It is built of well hewn logs, with four bastions - its figure is an irregular square - the face to the river being longer than the side to the land. It is almost equal to a square of fifty yards - it is well built and strong against musquetry. Gen. McIntosh leaving a portion of his men to complete the fortification, set out at the head of one thousand men to build Fort Laurens at the forks of the Muskingum, which he accomplished by December. The object of this was to strike a blow at the Indian town on the Sandusky River - but the season being too far advanced he concluded to defer it until spring, and leaving Col. John Gibson in command, with one hundred and fifty men to garrison Fort Laurens, he returned in December to Pittsburg.

Fort Laurens was attacked in January by about eight hundred Indians. After frequent parleys and a promise of a barrel of flour, they agreed to send in proposals for peace, but instead of this they retreated. Col. Gibson relying on their word, and supposing they had left, permitted Capt. Clarke, of the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment, with fifteen men, to set out on his return to Fort McIntosh, whence they had gone to escort some provisions.

About three mile3 from Fort Laurens he was attacked by the notorious and infamous Simon Girty at the head of a band of Mingos. Two of his men were killed, four wounded, and one taken, the remainder escaped to the fort. The garrison, after a long, distressing siege of four weeks, was relieved by Gen. McIntosh at the head of nearly eight hundred men, who advanced rapidly to raise the siege by the route of Fort McIntosh. As the army came in sight of Fort Laurens the garrison fired a 'salute, which so alarmed the pack horses that they broke loose, by which means much of the provisions was lost and the horses never recovered. Many of the almost famished soldiers were injured by the surfeit occasioned by over eating. They returned to Fort McIntosh, where they were met by their friends from the settlements and abundantly supplied.

A new body of troops supplied those worn down by the fatigues of the siege, and the fort was left in command of Major Yernon. Gen. McIntosh endeavored to get up an expedition against the Sandusky

Col. Daniel Broadhead succeeded Gen. McIntosh in the command, but his position was judiciously chosen, as it commanded not only the mouth of the Muskingum, but swept the waters of the Ohio from a curve in the river both above and below the fort. It was placed under the command of Major John Doughty, and occupied by a detachment of United States troops from 1785 to September, 1790, and was the second fort erected within the present limits of Ohio.

Gen. Broadhead, in his letter to Gen. Armstrong, says : It was owing to the General's determination to take Detroit that the very romantic building called Fort McIntosh was built by the hands of hundreds who would rather have fought than wrought.

was erected in November, 1778, at the forks of the Muskingum, on the right bank of the Tuscarawas River, half a mile below the site of Bolivar, Tuscarawas County, by General L. McIntosh, of the Revolution. In December following it was occupied by one thousand soldiers. Before the troops left he placed Col. John Gibson in command, with one hundred and fifty men to garrison it, and on July 81, 1779, it was evacuated by order of General Broadhead. (See Foit McIntosh for further history.)

Henry Laurens was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in the year 1724. He took an early part in opposing the arbitrary claims of Great Britain at the commencement of the American Revolution. When the Provincial Congress of Carolina met in June, 1775, he was appointed its President, in which capacity he drew up a form of association, to be signed by all the friends of liberty, which indicated a most determined spirit. Being a member of the General Congress, after the resignation of Hancock, he was appointed President of that illustrious body in November, 1777.

In 1780 he was deputed to solicit a loan from Holland, and to negotiate a treaty with the United Netherlands; but on his passage he was captured by a British vessel on the Banks of Newfoundland. He threw his papers overboard, but they were recovered by a sailor. Being sent to England, he was committed to the Tower on the 6th of October as a state prisoner, upon a charge of high treason. Here he was confined more than a year, and was treated with great severity, being denied for the most part all intercourse with his friends, and forbidden the use of pen, ink, and paper. His capture occasioned no small embarrassment to the ministry. They dared not condemn him as a rebel, through fear of retaliation, and they were unwilling to release him, lest he should accomplish the object of his mission. The discoveries found in his papers led to a war with Great Britain and Holland, and Mr. Adams was appointed in his place to carry on the negotiation with the United Provinces. He was eventually discharged, after fourteen months' confinement in the Tower. He received a commission from Congress, appointing him one of their ministers for negotiating a peace with Great Britain, and arriving at Paris, in conjunction with Dr. Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay, he signed the preliminaries of peace on the 30th of November, 1782. He then returned to Carolina. He died December 3, 1792, in the 69th year of his age.

was erected by the Ohio Company under the direction of General Rufus Putnam, at Marietta, April 7, 1788, but not finally completed with palisades and outworks or bastions, until the winter of 1790. The walls, which formed a regular parallelogram, were one hundred and eighty feet each. At each comer was a strong block-house surmounted by a tower or sentry box, being twenty-six feet square at the base, and on the top twenty feet, with projection of six feet beyond the main walls of the fort. The buildings within the inclosure were constructed of whip-sawed timber about four inches thick, dovetailed at the comers and covered with shingle roofs, each room of which had fire-places and brick chimneys. The towers and bastions were bright with whitewash.

The first court ever held in the Northwest Territory was opened in the northwest block-house of Campus Martius (Marietta), August 2, 1788, and was held during the Indian war. At the close of the war and until the old court-house of Washington County was built, the courts were held in the upper story of a block-house at the junction of the Muskingum River with the Ohio. Washington County court-house was built in 1798.

was erected by Col. Barbee near the west bank of the St. Marys River, and in the southeast corner of the Lutheran Cemetery, in the town of St. Marys.

was erected by Col. Jennings' regiment Sept. 1812, by order of General Harrison. It was intermediate between St. Marys and Defiance, and was situated in what is now the southwest part of Putnam County.

was built in January, 1813, in Hardin County, at the head of the Scioto and on Gen. Hull's road, three miles southwest of the present city of Kenton, and named after Gen. Duncan McArthur. He built two blockhouses on the south side of the Scioto, each twenty by twenty-four feet, connected by a strong blockade, covering an area of near half an acre. From Fort McArthur to Rapids of the Miami is one hundred and fifty miles. * was erected by Gen. Harrison February 1, 1813, at the Maumee Rapids? in Wood County, and named by him in honor of Governor Meigs, of Ohio. General Proctor with the British forces, and Tccumseh with the Indians, were defeated at the siege of Fort Meigs. The fort was of an oblong shape, with bastions and block-houses, with two transverses running from one end to the other. It originally covered about ten acres of ground, but through the action of the elements it rapidly disappeared, It was the scene of two of the most important battles of the war of 1812, viz., the British and their allies, the Indians, under Proctor.

was at the foot of the Rapids, seven miles from Fort Deposit, and stood on the northwestern bank of the Maumee, near where Maumee City now stands.

was built June 22, 1812, by Col. Findlay, on the road from Fort McArthur to Blanchard's Fork, and is situated near what is now the town of Dunkirk, in Hardin County.

was erected opposite Tiffin, on the west bank of the Sandusky River. It was a small stockade with a ditch, occupying about one-third of an acre, and was used principally as a military depot.

Moravian Missions Pioneer Missionary

Rev. Charles Frederick Post was the pioneer Moravian missionary to the Ohio Indians. He it was who made the preliminary movement among them which had in view their civilization and conversion from savagism to Christianity. With that high purpose he left his home in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1761, and visited the Delawares, then occupying the valley of the Upper Muskingum (now called the Tuscarawas), and then and there took the incipient steps in promotion of his object, by making their acquaintance, and by cultivating fraternal relations with them, and securing their confidence and friendship. He also built a cabin among them, which was situated within about a mile of one of their chief villages on the Tuscarawas River, named Tuscararatown, a' short distance south of the present northern boundary of Tuscarawas County. The building he erected stood in the immediate vicinity of the mouth of Sandy Creek, near the present village of Bolivar, and only a little way north of the line which divides Tuscarawas and Stark Counties, on section twenty-five, in the township of Bethlehem, Stark County. A pile of stones, which probably formed the chimney of this early time missionary's habitation, still indicated its site as late as the year 1843, when "Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio" first appeared. Some have held the opinion that this was the first house erected within the present limits of Ohio by a white man, but that' is doubtless an error. The French, English, and American traders, years before, had built many huts, cabins, and trading stations; and so also had the French Jesuits erected buildings, at a prior date, along the Auglaize River, also on the banks of the Maumee, or Miami of the Lakes, as well as at or near Fort Loramie, on the portage between the Great Miami River and the southern tributaries of the Maumee.

After completing his building, this lone missionary of the West concluded that the next step in the preliminary measures looking to the civilization of the Indians on the Tuscarawas, and bringing them into the Christian faith, was to establish a mission school among them, and teach them to read the Scriptures in their own tongue. With this view this pioneer missionary returned to his home in Pennsylvania, to secure the services of an assistant who should devote his attention to the business of teaching the Indians and giving them suitable instruction ; and in this he succeeded. John Ileckewelder, then a youth of nineteen years, volunteered his services as a teacher, and was accepted ; and on the 8th of March, 1762, the veteran missionary and his youthful companion started on their long horseback journey of thirty-three days, which they completed April 11th, by entering on that day the cabin built on the banks of the Tuscarawas River the previous year. But little, however, was accomplished by these missionaries during the summer, except to clear a plat of ground fifty yards square around their cabin (the Indians being unwilling to allow more), and raising corn and vegetables for their subsistence. The necessary absence of the senior missionary for a number of months, he having accepted the invitation of the Governor of Pennsylvania to meet in council at Lancaster, on the 27th of August, to hold a conference with some Indian tribes ; the scanty supply of food, and difficulty of procuring it; ttye sickness of Heckewelder; the jealousy and hostility of the Indians, and other untoward circumstances, led to the abandonment of this missionary enterprise in October, 1762, when John Heckewelder returned to Bethlehem.

As the Rev. Christian Frederick Post made the first, although unsuccessful, attempt to establish a Protestant mission among the Ohio Indians, and as he never afterwards identified himself, in any manner, with our subsequent history, we deem this the proper place for a brief biographical sketch of this pioneer missionary. It was quite otherwise with his assistant, John Heckewelder. He intimately connected his name with our history by his personal presence for almost half a century (though not continuously) after his first arrival at the Tuscarawas River, 1762, remaining in Ohio until 1810, and rendering himself pre-eminently useful in various prominent official positions; so much so, indeed, that his name continues to be a " household word" among us to the present day.

Rev. Christian Frederick Post was a native of Conitz, in Polish Prussia. He came to America in 1742, and first exercised the functions of a Moravian missionary in 1743, having acquired some knowledge of the language of the Indians. A few years later he became an adept in the language of the Mohawks. While among them, in 1745, he was arrested as a spy, or rather for supposed sympathy with the French, and was imprisoned in Albany at first, and afterwards in New York. After enduring many weeks of confinement in prisons, he and his companion and fellowmissionary, Rev. David Zeisberger, were discharged, as not guilt}', after an examination by the Governor and his Council, and were permitted to return to Bethlehem, their home. He soon after joined a mission in Connecticut, and remained there until 1749, when he returned to Europe, where, however, he made but a short stay. After his return to America he labored as a missionary at Wyoming, until 1754, when he again went to Bethlehem, the Moravian "head-quarters."