Waverly, Mo., death of Jason Brown's
son at, 233.

Wayne, Anthony, 178.
Weiser, Reuben, 70.

Weld, Theodore Dwight, at convention
of Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, 362,
363.

West, W. P., 444, 454.

West Andover, John Brown at, 261.
West Liberty, Iowa, John Brown passes
through, 257; departure of John
Brown and rescued slaves from, 408.
Western Anti-Slavery Society, successor

of Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, meet-
ing of in New Lisbon, 369-370; rescue
of slave girl at annual meeting of in
Salem, 381-387.

Western Pennsylvania Historical Maga-

zine, account of origin of "John
Brown's body" song quoted from, 339-
340.

Wetmore, William, cares for Marius R.

Robinson, victim of a mob, 366, 368.
Whinnery, Elijah, 444, 454.
Whinnery, James, 444, 454.
Whinnery, J. C., preserves coffin of Ed-

win Coppoc, 444, 454, 455; 456; 476.
Whinnery, Rachel, her notable address

at funeral of Edwin Coppoc, 439-440.
White, Horace, 248.

White, Rev. Martin, kills Frederick
Brown, son of John Brown, 243; John
Brown forbids injuring him in spirit
of revenge, 225.

White woman, killed by Indians in effort
to escape imprisonment, 62
Whitfield, J. W., elected delegate to Con-

gress by Pro-slavery party, 234; fav-
ored by Governor Shannon, 234;
ousted by Congress, 234; leads Mis-
sourians against Lawrence, 246.

Wild game, observed by Christopher Gist
in Ohio country, 64.

Willard, Ashbel P., governor of In-
diana and brother-in-law of John E.
Cook, 434; his final visit to Charles-
town with his wife may have pre-
vented the escape of Edwin Coppoc
and John E. Cook, 434.

Wills Creek, 56, 59, 64.
Wilson, Alexander S., contributor of
"The Naga and the Lingam of India
and the Serpent Mounds of Ohio,"
80-89.

Wilson, Hills Peebles, author of John
Brown, Soldier of Fortune, A Crit
ique, 193-194.

Wilson, Mrs. William Magee, State
Regent D. A. R., address of at un-
veiling of tablet at Campus Martius,
483-484.

Windsor, Canada, John Brown arrives
at with slaves from Missouri, 257.
Winn, Thomas, testimonial of to char-
acter of Edwin Coppoc, 402; 419; per-
sistent and diplomatic effort to save
life of Edwin Coppoc, 420-424; letters
to Governor Henry A. Wise in sup-
port of plea for commutation of death
sentence of Edwin Coppoc, 421-422;
visits Andrew Hunter and Judge
Richard Parker, and pleads for com-
mutation of death sentence of Edwin
Coppoc, 422; in letter to widow of
John Brown expresses his opinion that
letter written to her prevented com-
mutation of death sentence of Edwin
Coppoc, 428.

Winona, 397.
Wise, Henry A., testimonial to character
of John Brown, 209, 272, 322; desire
of to commute sentence of Edwin Cop-
poc, 209; his treatment of prisoners
captured at Harper's Ferry, 271; his
interview with John Brown, 271-272;
quotation from speech of relative to

capture of Colonel Lewis Washington
by John Brown, 273; at execution of
John Brown, 285; connives to turn
over Harper's Ferry and its arms to
the Confederate army, 287; visits
John Brown at Harper's Ferry, 322;
his appeal before a committee of the
legislature of Virginia for commu-
tation of death sentence of Edwin
Coppoc, 423; his favorable endorse-
ment on written appeal of Thomas
Winn for commutation of death sen-
tence of Edwin Coppoc, 424; attitude
toward Edwin Coppoc chivalrous and
courageous, 436.

Wise, O. Jennings, 298.
Wissler, Clark, 94.

Withers, Alexander Scott, "Chronicles of

Border Warfare," 55.

Woman Suffrage, first call for Ohio con-
vention in support of, 373.
Wood, Edwin F., at funeral of George
Frederick Wright, 165.

Wright, Frederick Bennett, 165.
Wright, George Frederick, his death,
162; funeral and tributes to memory
of, 163-175; his literary work, 164,
168-171; tribute to his memory by
Henry Churchill King, 165-168; tribute
to his memory by Azariah S. Root,
168-172; his contribution to scientific
research and literature, 170-171; his
interest in music and art, 172-175;

tribute to his memory by Edward

Dickinson, 172-175.
Wright, Helen, 165.

Wright, Henry C., 378, 379.

Xenia, Christopher Gist crossed the Lit
tle Miami near site of, 64.

Clerk of territorial legislature, directed
to draft certain bills, 34, 35, 36, 37,
41, 42; compensation of, 36; directed
to publish resolution relative to drink-
ing places, 40.

Coroners, law relative to duties and pow
ers of adopted, 44.
Correction, houses of, law authorizing
proposed, 29.

Courts, law proposed to regulate practice
of, 29; proposed repeal of territorial
laws establishing, 34.

Courts of common pleas, commissions of
judges of in certain cases, 50.
Courts of judicature, law proposed es-
tablishing, 34.

Debt, imprisonment for, 29, 43, 45; law
subjecting real estate to execution for
signed and sealed, 46; law limiting
imprisonment for and subjecting cer-
tain debtors to servitude, 49.

Debts, law for determining under forty
shillings; for recovery of small debts,
34-35; law directing the order of pay-
ment of, 42; of deceased persons, law
regulating order of payment of, 48.
Deeds, law proposed relative to acknowl-
edging and recording of, 37; bill for
acknowledging and recording made
special order, 39; action relative to
law providing for postponed, 39; laws
concerning acknowledging and record-
ing of considered, 40; and adopted,
40.
Defalcation, adoption of law on agreed
to, 35; law concerning, 47, 51.
Delay in causes, law adopted to prevent,
36.
Detainer, 43.

Divorce, law proposed authorizing, 29;
law providing for adopted, 43.
Dower, law for assignment of proposed,
42; law for assignment of, 48.

Enclosures, law relating to adopted, 41;
law regulating, 48.

Entry and detainer, law against adopted,
43; law concerning, 48.

Estates, law relative to proposed, 37;
law providing for conveyance of by
husband and wife, 42.

Estates of intestates, law adopted for
settlement of, 39, 48.

Estray act, amendment proposed, 29.
Estreats, law proposed relative to, 29.
Execution of judgment, law proposed
authorizing immediate, 29.

Fines and forfeitures, law proposed rela-
tive to recovery of, 37; adopted, 37;
law for recovery of, 48.

Foreigners, orders forbidding to hunt or
commit waste on lands of the North-
western Territory, 38.

Forfeitures, see fines and forfeitures.
Freeman, Ezra Fitz, authorized to pre-
pare copy of laws for the press, 45.
Freeman, Samuel, petition for authority
to keep a public ferry, 40.

Game, ordinance for the preservation of,
38.

Gaming, law against adopted, 44; law to
suppress, 48.

Gaming act, law proposed to amend, 29.
Gano, John S. & Co., bill for record
books, 41.

Gordon, George, coroner of Hamilton

County, claim of ordered paid, 45.

Hamilton County, ordinance creating, 38;
ordinance extending, 39; incidental
expenses of, 41; treasurer of notified
to render his accounts, 44; treasurer
authorized to pay coroner, 45; treas-
urer of presents his accounts in un-
satisfactory form, 46; corrected ac-
counts approved, 47.

Heth, Eleanor, her petition for exclusive
authority to keep a public ferry at
Clarksville, on the Ohio, 41.

Illinois lands, proclamation concerning,

38.

Imprisonment for debt, law proposed
abolishing, 29.

Intoxicating liquors, repeal of territorial

laws prohibiting sale or giving of to
soldiers and Indians, 35; commission-
ers granting licenses to traffic in re-
quired to report to legislature of the
Northwestern Territory, 40; a number
of taverns, inns and tippling houses

in Cincinnati declared public nui-
sances, 40; law adopted to license
traffic in, 40; law to license and regu-
late sale of, 48.

Judicature, courts of, consideration of

law providing for agreed to, 35; law
providing for adopted, 36; law estab-
lishing courts of, 47.

Jurisdiction of judge, law proposed to ex-
tend to cases involving twenty dollars,
29; of single magistrate, petitions for
laws extending, 34; law adopted, 34.

Kahokia, law proposed to abolish district
of, 29.

Kaskaskia, law proposed to abolish dis
trict of, 29.
Kennedy,

Rebecca, petition for law
authorizing public ferry, 27.
Knox County, ordinance erecting, 38.

Lands, public, increasing value of, 35;
law for partition of adopted, 43; 48.
Larceny, law for trial and punishment of
agreed to, 35; 47.

Laws, distinction between adoption and
enactment of, 20-25; in force, law
specifying adopted, 43; William Max-
well authorized to print those adopted
by Legislature of the Northwestern
Territory, 43; copy of ordered pre-
pared for the press, 45; list of sealed
and signed by the governor and judges
of the Northwestern Territory, 47-48;
list of signed and sealed, 48-49.
Laws of the Northwestern Territory, list
of those adopted in 1795, with dates
when each was published and in
effect, 50-52; proposals for printing,
52-53.

Legislative authority, limitation of under
the Ordinance of 1787, 20-25.

Lemond, Martha, petition of for relief,
40.

Lemond, William, petition for divorce,

29.

Limitation law proposed, 29.

Limitation of actions, law for proposed,
36; law for adopted, 36.

Maxwell, William, authorized to print
laws of the Northwestern Territory,
43; his bill for printing, 46; proposal
for printing laws of the Northwestern
Territory, 52.

Militia, laws proposed relative to, 29.
Minutes of the Legislature of the North-
western Territory, leave to print
granted, 47.

Naturalization law proposed, 29.
Neutrality with friendly powers, procla
mation enjoining, 39.

Oath, law adopted relative to taking, 36.
Oaths, solemn affirmation instead of for

certain persons, 4.

Orcutt, Darius Curtis, petition for
authority to keep ferry, 45.
Orphan's courts, law adopted establish-
ing, 39; law establishing, 48.

Petitions, in territorial legislature of

1795, by Joel Williams, 27; Rebecca
Kennedy, 27; Patrick Simpson, 27;
Daniel Symmes, 27; William Lemond,
29; Martha Lemond, 40; Samuel Free-
man, 40; Eleanor, widow of the late
Captain Heth, 41; Mary Starkey, 43;
Darius Curtis Orcutt, 45; Andrew
Christie, 45; Stephen Cisna, 45.
Poor, law proposed for relief of, 29;
law for relief of, 48.
Prairie de Rocher, law proposed to abol-
ish district of, 29; Governor of North-
western Territory authorized to dis-
solve judicial district of at his dis-
cretion, 50.

Printing of certain documents relative to
the Northwestern Territory, resolu-
tion offered for, 38, 39.

Quakers, law proposed authorizing solemn
affirmation by, 36; adopted, 37.
Quebec, seminary of, lands claimed by,

38.

Rates and levies, county, consideration

of bill for raising postponed, 39; laws
for raising considered, 41; and
adopted, 41; law relative to consid-
ered, 42; law for raising, 48.
Real estate, law proposed to subject to
payment of debts, 29; 33.
Recorder, law establishing office of, 48.
Recorders, county, seals for, 37.
Remedies, law adopted for in certain
equity cases, 42; law providing in
equity cases, 48.

Rent, law adopted relating to ejectment
of tenants, 44.

Resolutions, operating as laws, to be
printed as appendix to laws, 49.

St. Clair, Arthur, address to the legis-
lature, 1795, 20-27; motions by, 34, 35;
requested to forward to Congress rep-
resentation relative to increasing value
of public lands, 35,

St. Clair, county of, law proposed to ex-
tend jurisdiction of courts in, 29;
ordinance erecting, 38.

Seal, territorial, attached to certain laws,
46; governor of the Territory re-
quested to apply for to be used by
recorders and orphans' courts, 37.
Secretary of the Northwestern Territory,
demand for payment of certified laws
furnished by, 37.

Seminary of Quebec, lands claimed by,

38.

Simpson, Patrick, petition authorizing
partition of property of debtor to pay
debt, 27.

Slaves, law proposed to authorize binding
out of free children born of slaves,
29.

Starkey, Mary, petition for relief from
imprisonment for debt, 43.

Suits, law for continuing adopted, 44.
Symmes, Daniel, petition relative to jail

regulations and care of prisoners, 27.
Symmes, John Cleves, present at meeting
of the territorial legislature, 16, 19;
joins Judge Turner in answer to ad-
dress of Governor St. Clair, 30-33;
motions by, 41, 45.

Taverns, law to regulate and license, 48.
Tenants, ejectment of, 44.
Timber, law adopted to prevent tres-
passers from cutting, 43.
Treason, law adopted annulling distinc-
tion between petit treason and mur-
der, 43; petit, law distinguishing from
murder, 49.

Trespassing of animals, law relative to
adopted, 42; law concerning, 48.

Turner, George, present at meeting of
territorial legislature, 1795, 16, 19;
motions by, 27, 29, 34, 37, 38, 40, 45,
47, 49; joins Judge Symmes in answer
to address of Governor St. Clair,
30-33; proposed twenty-three laws for
adoption, 42.

Veto power, 31-32.
Vanderburgh, Henry, proposed impeach.
ment of, 33,

Washington County, ordinance erecting,
38.