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
COL, GEORGE MORGAN; THOSE OF JUDGE BARKER; THE DIARIES
OF JOSEPH BUELL AND JOHN MATHEWS; THE RECORDS
OF THE OHIO COMPANY, &c., &c., &c.

BY S. P. HILDRETH.

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.

MORGAN & OVEREND, PRINTERS,

CINCINNATI.