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Commissioners correspond with Governor Simcoe.
Commissioners meet Brant and hold a council.

Commissioners at Elliott's house, mouth of Detroit river.
Commissioners meet Indian delegates.

Final action of the commissioners and Indians.

Wayne leaves Cincinnati with his legion.
Wayne encamps at Greenville.

Wayne is joined by Kentuckians under Scott.
Lowry and Boyd attacked.

French emissaries sent west.

Field of St. Clair's defeat taken possession of by Wayne's troops.

Dissatisfaction in the West.

Opposition to excise feebler.

Whiskey riots recommence.

Lord Dorchester's speech to Indians.
The Mingo Creek Association formed.
Wayne prepares for his campaign.

General Simcoe builds a fort on the Maumee..
Democratic society formed at Pittsburgh.
Spaniards offer help to Indians.

French emissaries forced to leave west.
Contest respecting Presqu'isle.

Indians attacked Fort Recovery,

Suits commenced against whiskey rioters.
First gathering about Neville's house.
Neville's house burnt.

Meeting at Mingo Creek.

July 26,

Mail robbed by Bradford.

July 26,

Scott, with 1600 men, joins Wayne.

Aug. 1,

Great gathering at Braddock's field.

Wayne builds Fort Deposit.

Washington issues proclamation against whiskey rioters.
Wayne near Maumee.

Wayne sends his last peace message to Indians.

Wayne meets and conquers Indians.

Commissioners of government meet committee of rioters.
British try to prevent Indians making peace.

Vote taken upon obedience to the law in Pennsylvania.
Washington calls out militia.

Fort Wayne built.

Indians ask for peace of Colonel Hamtramck.

Indians sign preliminaries of a treaty.
Prisoners are interchanged.

Connecticut prepares to sell her reserve.

Council of Greenville opens.

The Baron de Carondelet writes Sebastian.
Jay's treaty formed.

Treaty of Greenville'signed.

Council of Greenville closed.

Grant by Congress to Gallipolis settlers.

Connecticut sells Western Reserve to Land company.
Pinckney concludes treaty with Spain.

Dayton laid out.

Chillicothe founded.

M. Adet, French Minister, sends emissaries to disaffect the west to

the union.

Sebastian visits the southwest.

Cleveland laid out and named.

British give up posts in northwest."

Difficulties with Spain begin.

August,

General Wayne died.

August,

First paper mill in the west.

1797.

Oct.

Oct.

1798.

Dec.

Power visits Kentucky, and writes to Sebastian.

Daniel Boone moves west of Mississippi.

Occupying claimant law of Kentucky passed,

W. H. Harrison appointed secretary of Northwest territory.
Alien and sedition laws passed.

Nullifying resolutions in Kentucky.

Death abolished in Kentucky, except for murder.

Representatives for Northwest territory first chosen.

1799; Feb. 4,

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Representatives of Northwest territory meet to nominate candidates for Council.

February, Kentucky constitution amended.

February Internal improvements talked of in Kentucky.

Sept. 24,
Oct. 6,

Assembly of Northwest territory organizes at Cincinnati.

W. H. Harrison appointed delegate in Congress for N. West territory.

Indiana territory formed.

Connecticut yields jurisdiction of her reserve to the U. States, and U.
States gives her patents for the soil.

Treaty of St. Ildefonso.

Assembly of Northwest territory meets at Chillicothe.
First missionary in Connecticut Reserve.

W. H. Harrison appointed Governor of Indiana territory.
St. Clair re-appointed Governor of Northwest territory.

Cincinnati, in place of Chillicothe, again made seat of government for
Northwest territory.

Thomas Worthington goes to Washington to procure the erection of
Ohio into a state.

University at Athens, Ohio, established.

First Bank in Kentucky.

Congress agree that Ohio may become a state.

The Spanish Intendant forbids the use of N. Orleans by the Americans
Convention meets to form a constitution for Ohio.

Constitution formed.

Bank of Chillicothe chartered.

Burr's boats and stores arrested.

Burr meets his men at the mouth of the Cumberland.

Burr yields to civil authority of Mississippi.

Burr escapes and is seized.

Burr's trial at Richmond.

Slavery finally forbidden in Indiana.

Bank of Marietta chartered.

Tecumthe and the Prophet remove to Tippecanoe.

Hull surrenders.

Massacre of troops near Chicago.
Fort Harrison attacked.

W. H. Harrison appointed Commander in Northwest.
General Hopkins attacks the Indians on the Wabash.
Governor Edwards attacks the Indians on the Illinois.
Colonel Campbell attacks the Indians on the Missisinneway.

Winchester reaches the rapids of Maumee.

Sends troops to Frenchtown.

British at Frenchtown defeated.

Americans defeated at Frenchtown, with great loss.
Massacre of the wounded.

Harrison retreats to Portage river.

Harrison advances to Maumee, and builds Fort Meigs.
Fort Meigs besieged.

General Clay reaches Fort Meigs; Dudley's party lost.
British return to Malden.

British fleet prepare to attack Erie.

Perry's vessels leave Erie.

American army at Malden.

Fort Stephenson besieged.

Aug. 2,

Siege of Fort Stephenson raised.

Aug. 4,

Sept. 10,

Victory by Perry, on lake Erie.

Sept. 27,

Pittsburgh incorporated.

March,

Dec.

Dec.

Dec. 11,

Holmes's expedition into Canada.

J. C. Symmes died.

Expedition under Croghan against Mackinac.

Fort Shelby, at Prairie du Chien, taken by the British.
Treaty with Indians at Greenville.

McArthur's expedition into Canada.

Treaty of Ghent.

Various treaties with Indians.

Ohio taxes the Banks.

Columbus made capital of Ohio.
Bank of Shawneetown chartered.

General Banking law of Ohio passed.
Indiana admitted to the Union.

1817. September, Northwest of Ohio bought of Indians.

Jan. & Oct. United States bank opens branches in Cincinnati and Chillicothe.

The first steamer on Lake Erie.

September, Contest of Ohio and the United States bank.

1820. December, Nullification resolutions of Ohio.

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1832. February,

May 14,

Great flood in Ohio.

Stillman's defeat.

Indian creek settlement destroyed.
Blackhawk defeated on Wisconsin.
Blackhawk defeated on Mississippi.
Blackhawk delivered to United States.

Cholera among Scott's troops and along Lakes.
Treaty with Indians.

Cholera at Cincinnati and along the Ohio.

Michigan asks admission to United States.
Congress offers her conditions.

Terms offered Michigan rejected.
Terms in a second Convention agreed to.
Michigan admitted.

Alton riots, Lovejoy killed.

Contest with Mormons in Missouri.

Bank Commissioners appointed in Ohio.
Nauvoo founded.

Cincinnati Astronomical society founded.
Illinois banks closed by Legislature.

Corner stone of Cincinnati Observatory laid.

Joe Smith killed.

Banking law of Ohio creating a State bank with branches, and

independent banks.

Observatory at Cincinnati finished.

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