CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

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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.

American Archives. Fourth Series. 5 Vols. Washington. 1837 to 1844.

American Pioneer. Cincinnati. 1842. 1843.

Atwater's History of Ohio. Cincinnati. No date.

Account of the First Discovery of Florida, London. 1763.

Account of the French Settlements in North America. Boston. 1746.

Account of Conferences and Treaties between Sir William Johnson, and Indians, at Fort Johnson: in 1755, '56. London. 1756.

Almon's Remembrancer; from 1775 to 1784. London. Published from year to year: with an introductory volume, giving matter previous to 1775.

American Remembrancer, giving matter in relation to Jay's treaty, 1795. 3 Vols. Philadelphia. 1795.

Armstrong's Notices of the War of 1812. 2 vols. New York. 1840.

Allen's American Biographical Dictionary. Boston. 1832.

Bancroft's History United States. Boston. 1834 to 1840.

Butler's Kentucky. Second edition. Cincinnati, 1836.

Brown's History of Illinois. New York. 1844.

Butler's History of Kentucky. Cincinnati. 1836.

Burk's History of Virginia.

Bouquet's Expedition, 1764. London, 1766.

Barbe Marbois' History of Louisiana. Translation. Philadelphia. 1830.

Brackenridge's Incidents of the Whiskey Insurrection. Philadelphia. 1795.-N. B. This is one volume in three parts, each paged as, and called, a separate volume. Vol. I. gives the incidents from July to September, 1794. Vol. II. those which followed. Vol. III. those which preceded. There is also an appendix.

Brief State of the Province of Pennsylvania: in which the conduct of the Assembly is examined. London, 1755.

Answer to the above. London. 1755.

Brief View of the conduct of Pennsylvania in 1755. London. 1756.

Brown's Views of the Campaign of the Northwest Army. Troy, N. Y. 1814.

Brown's History of the Second War of Independence.

Boone's Adventures. N. Y. 1844.

Beecher's Account of Alton Riots. Alton.

1838.

Blackhawk's Account of Himself. Cincinnati. 1833

Butler's Western Chronology. Frankfort, Ky. 1837.

Burgess' Account of Perry's Victory, with strictures on the conduct of Captain Elliott. Boston. 1839. Charlevoix's New France. Paris. 1744. 1774.

Journal.

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Carver's Travels. London. 1780.-Philadelphia. 1789-New York. 1838.
Contest in America between England and France. (Said to be by Dr. Mitchell.)
Colden's History of the Iroquois. London. 1755.

London. 1757.

Correspondence of Genet, &c. Philadelphia. 1793. [N. B.-This gives his secret instructions.] Coxe's Description of Carolana. London. 1722.

Carey's American Museum, &c. Philadelphia. 1789, &c.

Cincinnati Directory. 1819.

Cist's Cincinnati. Čincinnati. 1841.

Cist's Cincinnati Miscellany. 2 Vols. 1844. 1845.

Chase's Laws. 3 Vols. Cincinnati. 1835.

66 Sketch of History of Ohio. Cincinnati. 1833.

Campbell's Remains. Columbus. 1838.

Drake's Indian Captivities. Boston. 1839.

Doddridge's Notes. Wellsburgh, Va. 1824.

Dillon's History of Indiana. Vol. I. Indianapolis. 1843.

Drake's Picture of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, 1815.

Drake's Life of Tecumseh. Cincinnati. 1841.

Drake's Life of Blackhawk. Cincinnati. 1846.

Dalliba's Narrative of the Battle of Brownstown, August 9, 1812. New York. 1816.

Davis's Memoirs of Burr. 2 Vols. New York. 1837.

Dawson's Life of Harrison. Cincinnati. 1824.

Expedition of Braddock; being extracts of letters from an officer. London. 1755.

Enquiry into causes of the Alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians from the British interest. Taken from Public Documents. London. 1759.

LIST OF BOOKS.

Ellicott's Journal, &c. Philadelphia, 1803.

Executive Journals of the Senate. 3 Vols. Washington, 1828.

Filson's Account of Kentucky. London. 1793.

Findley's History of the Whiskey Insurrection. Philadelphia. 1796.

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Filson's Account of Kentucky in French. Paris. 1785. [N. B.-This is a P.S. to Crevecœur's Letters of a Planter.]

Flint's Recollections of Last Ten Years in Mississippi Valley. Boston. 1826.

Flint's Geography. Cincinnati. 1832.

Gibbs' Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams. 2 vols. N. Y. 1846.
Greene's Facts relative to the Mormons. Cincinnati. 1839.

Histoire General des Voyages. Paris. 1757.

Harrison's Address, 1837, in Ohio Historical Transactions.

Heckewelder's Narrative. Philadelphia. 1820.

Hull's Trial. Boston. 1814. [N. B.-This volume does not give the evidence.]

Hull's Memoirs. Boston. 1824.

Hull's Defence. Boston. 1814.

Historical Register of United States. Edited by T. H. Palmer. 4 Vols. Philadelphia. 1814.
History of Louisiana. By M. Le Page du Pratz. 2 vols. Paris. 1758.

Translated. London. 1763.

Historical Collections of Pennsylvania. By Sherman Day. Philadelphia and New Haven. No date. Hutchins' Geographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, &c. London. 1778. Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana, &c. Philadelphia. 1784. History of the conquest of Florida by De Soto. Paris. 1685-London. 1696.

Hall's Memoir of Harrison. Philadelphia and Cincinnati. 1836.

Hunt's History of the Mormon War. St. Louis. 1844.

Hesperian. (Periodical.) Columbus and Cincinnati.

Hall's Wilderness and War-path, in Wiley and Putnam's Library. New York. 1846.

Independent Chronicle and General Advertiser. Boston. [N. B.-Democratic.]

Imlay's Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America. Published in one volume in London, in 1792, 1793 and in 1797.-The edition of 1797 contains Pownal's Topography; Filson's Kentucky; the two works of Hutchins, and ten other additions. It was repubfished in 2 vols. at N. Y., 1793.

Indian Treaties from 1778 to 1837. Washington. 1837.

Jefferson's Memoirs and Correspondence. Boston and New York. 1830.

Original edition published from year to year.

Lanman's History of Michigan. New York. 1843.

Letter to a Friend, giving an account of Braddock's Defeat. Boston. 1755.

Letters from an American Farmer, &c. By Hector St. John de Crevecœur. First published in French. 3 Vols. Paris. 1787. [N. B.-Contains map of Scioto, from General Richard Butler: do. of Big Beaver from " White Mingo:" do of Muskingum from Bouquet, Hutchins, and Whiteeyes. A fourth volume gives Filson's Account of Kentucky.]

Loskiel's History of Moravian Missions. London. 1791.

Land Laws affecting Ohio. Columbus. 1825.

Latrobe's Rambler in America. New York. 1835.

Laws of Missouri. Jefferson City. 1842.

ས Indiana, revised.

" Ohio,

Columbus. 1841.

Law's Historical Address at Vincennes. Louisville. 1839.

Marquette's Journal in Thevenot. Paris. 1681.

Marquette, Life of by Sparks. Boston.

Marshall's History of Kentucky. 2 Vols. Frankfort. 1824.

McClung's Western Adventure. Cincinnati. 1839.

Morehead's Address. Frankfort, 1841.

Memoires Historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris. 1753.

Massachusetts Historical Collections. 29 Vols. 3 Series. Boston. 1806 to 1846.

Mante's History of the War of 1754-63. 1772. Probably published at London.

Minutes of the Treaty of Carlisle in 1753. No date of publication.

Mac Afee's History of the War of 1812. Lexington, Ky. 1816.

Since this work went to press, a translation of the Letters referred to in it has been published in New York, in a couple of volumes entitled "Early Jesuits in North America. Translated by Rev. William Ingraham Kip."

↑ Since this work went to press, a volume called "Notes on the Northwest by Wm. J. A. Bradford," has reached us, in which an attempt is made to throw discredit upon Marquette's alleged discovery. The attempt is, however, based upon an error, viz. that Marquette's account was not published till 1627, after La Salle's Voyage, whereas it appeared in 1681, the year before La Salle reached the Mississippi. Mr. Bradford had never seen the original edition of Thevenot. See his " Notes,” p. 68

Memoirs on the Last War in North America. 3 Vols. Yverdon. 1781. [N. B.-This work is in French. The Scioto is here written Sonhioto.]

Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania. Published by the State. 3 vols. Harrisburg, 1838 and 1840.

Marshall's Life of Washington. 5 Vols. Philadelphia. 1804 and 1807.

Martin's History of Louisiana. 2 Vols. New Orleans. 1829.

McDonald's Sketches. Cincinnati. 1838.

Nicollet's Report to the Senate. Washington. 1843.

North American Review. Boston.

New York Historical Collections. 3 Vols, New York. 1811. 1814. 1821.

Niles' Weekly Register. Baltimore.

Observations on the North American Land Company, &c. London. 1796.

Old Journals of Congress, from 1774 to 1788. 4 Vols. Way & Gideon. Washington. 1823.
Ohio Journals, published yearly.

Obio Canal Documents. Columbus. 1828.

Pownall's Memorials on Service in North America. London. 1767.

Present State of North America. London. 1755.

Proud's History of Pennsylvania. 2 Vols. Philadelphia. 1797.

Plain Facts. Philadelphia. 1781.

Proofs of the Corruption of James Wilkinson. By Daniel Clark. Philadelphia. 1809.

Plea in vindication of the Connecticut Title to contested lands west of New York. By Benjamin Trumbull. New Haven. 1774.

Present State of Virginia, &c. By Hugh Jones. London. 1724.

Present State of European Settlements on Mississippi. By Captain Philip Pittman. London. 1770. Pitkin's History of the United States. New Haven. 1828.

Revised Statutes of Virginia. Richmond. 1819.

Report of the Committee to inquire into the conduct of General Wilkinson, February, 1811. Washington. 1811.

Review of the Military Operations in North America, from 1743 to 1756. By Governor Livingston, of New Jersey. London. 1757.

Ramsay's History of the War from 1755 to 1763. Edinburgh. 1779.

Relations de la Louisiane, &c. 2 Vols. Amsterdam. 1720. N. B.-Vol. second contains the documents relative to Law's Mississippi Company.

Rogers' Journals. London. 1765.

Renwick on the Steam Engine. New York. 1839.

Silliman's Journal. Vol. 31. New Haven. 1837.
Sparks' Washington. 12 Vols. Boston. 1837.

64 Franklin. 10 Vol, Boston, 1840.

66 Life of Morris. Boston. 1832.

Stuart's Memoirs of Indian Wars.

Stone's Life Brandt. 2 Vols. New York. 1838.

Smollett's History of England.

Stoddard's Sketches of Louisiana. Philadelphia. 1812.

Set of Plans and Forts in North America, reduced from actual survey. 1763. Probably published at London.

State of British and French Colonies in North America. In two letters to a friend. London. 1755. St. Clair's Narrative of his campaign. Philadelphia. 1812.

Smyth's Travels in America. 3 Vols. London. 1784. See p. 135 of this volume. [N. B.-Ly. man C. Draper, of Baltimore, who has tested Dr. Smyth's work by original documents in his possession, pronounces it full of entire falsehoods; not mere exagerations, but shameless lies.-Manuscript letter to Cincinnati Historical Society.]

Secret Journals of Congress. 4 Vols. Boston. 1820.

Stipp's Miscellany. Xenia, Ohio. 1827.

Thatcher's Lives of the Indians. 2 vols. N. Y.

State of the case relative to United States Bank in Ohio, Cincinnati. 1823.

1832.

Transactions of American Antiquarian Society. Worcester, Mass. 1820.

Tonti's Account of La Salle's Discoveries. Paris. 1687. [Spurious.]

Todd & Drake's Life of Harrison. Cincinnati. 1840.

Travels in North America in 1795, '96 and '97, by Isaac Weld. 2 Vols. London. 1799.
Travels in Louisiana. By Bossu. Translated by J. R. Forster. London. 1771.

Transactions of Ohio Historical Society, containing Burnet's Letters. Cincinnati. 1839.

Universal Modern History. London. 1763.

United States Gazette, edited by John Fenno. Published at New York from April 15, 1789 to November, 3, 1790; then transferred to Philadelphia. It was Federal.

Volney's View of the Climate and Soil of the United States. London. 1804.

View of the Title to Indiana, a tract of country on the river Ohio. Philadelphia. 1776. [N. B.See page 107 of this volume. This contains the treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768.]

Voyages, &c. relative to the Discovery of America. Paris. 1841.

Whittlesey's Discourse on Lord Dunmore's Expedition. Cleveland. 1842.

66 Life of Fitch. (In American Biography, New Series, vi.) Boston

Withers' Chronicles of Border Warfare. Clarksburgb, Va. 1821.
Western Monthly Magazine. Cincinnati. 1832, &c. Periodical.

Washington's Journal. Published at Williamsburgh, Va. Republished London, 1754, with a map. [N. B.-On this map the Scioto is called "Sikoder," and lake Erie Erri or Okswego." This last name is also given lake Erie on the map to Colden's history of the Iroquois. London, 1755. On the Cumberland is marked" Walker's Settlement, 1750." See page 111 and note of this volume.] Wetmore's Missouri Gazetteer. St. Louis. 1837.

Wilkinson's Memoirs. 3 Vols. Philadelphia. 1816.
Western Messenger. Periodical. Cincinnati.
Western Garland. Periodical. Cincinnati.

SPANISH AND FRENCH DISCOVERIES.

In the year 1512, on Easter Sunday, the Spanish name for which is Pascua Florida;* Juan Ponce de Leon, an old comrade of Columbus, discovered the coast of the American continent, near St. Augustine; and, in honor of the day, as well as because of the blossoms which covered the trees along the shore, named the new-found country Florida. Juan had been led to undertake the discovery of strange lands, partly by the hope, common to all his countrymen at that time, of finding endless stores of gold, and partly by the wish to reach a fountain that was said to exist, deep within the forests of North America, which possessed the power of renovating the life of those who drank of, or bathed in, its waters. In return for his discovery he was made Governor of the region he had visited, but various circumstances prevented his return thither until 1521, and then he went only to meet with death at the hands of the Indians.

In the mean time, in 1516, a roving Spanish sea captain, Diego Miruelo, had visited the coast first reached by Ponce de Leon, and in his barters with the natives had received considerable quantities of gold, with which he returned home, and spread abroad new stories of the wealth hidden in the interior.

Ten years, however, passed before Pamphilo de Narvaez undertook to prosecute the examination of the lands north of the Gulf of Mexico; the shores of which, during the intervening years, had been visited and roughly surveyed. Narvaez was excited to action by the late astonishing success of the conqueror of Montezuma, but he found the gold for which he sought, fly constantly before him; each tribe of Indians referred him to those living still farther in the interior, and from tribe to tribe

Pascua, the old English "Pasch" or Passover; "Pascua Florida" is the "Holyday of Flowers."