BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST EXAMINATIONS OF THE OHIO VALLEY, AND THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. CHIEFLY FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS; CONTAINING THE PAPERS OF NEW YORK BY SP HILDRETH., LERARY CINCINNATI: H. W. DERBY & CO., PUBLISHERS. NEW-YORK: A. S. BARNES & CO. 1848. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, by H. W. DERBY & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Ohio. LENDY MORGAN & OVEREND, PRINTERS, CINCINNATI. PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENT. This work is published under the superintendence of the Historical Society of Cincinnati, and forms the first volume of its transactions. It contains a full account of all that took place in Washington county, where the first settlement in the present state of Ohio took place, from 1788 to 1803; or during the existence of the Territorial Government. It also presents an outline of the leading events in the Ohio Valley, before 1788. The materials of this book are almost wholly original, comprising the papers of Colonel George Morgan; those of Judge Barker; the diaries of Joseph Buell and John Mathews; the records of the Ohio Company, &c., &c. The high character of the author for integrity, his long residence in the country, his attainments, and laborious habits, afford such assurance of the accuracy of the work, as to justify the Society in commending it to the public. The Society has in its possession the manuscript of a work, containing ample biographies of the first settlers of Marietta and its vicinity, prepared by the author of the present volume. Should the sale of this be as large as its merit leads the Society to hope it will be, the volume of Biography will follow it in a short time, as the second volume of the transactions. |