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1726.

1729. Nov. 28,

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

Governor Spotswood of Virginia explores the Alleghanies.
Louisiana granted to Crozat.

Fort Rosalie commenced.

Crozat resigns Louisiana.

Louisiana trade granted to Company of West.

Colonists sent to Louisiana and New Orleans laid out.

Company of the West made Company of the Indies.
Law made minister of finance.

Stock of Company of the Indies worth 2050 per cent.
Company of Indies bankrupt.

Charlevoix visits West.

Iroquois a third time place themselves under England.

French among the Natchez murdered.

1730. Jan. & Feb., Natchez conquered and destroyed.

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Alleged travels of Salling in the West.

Previous to this Governor Keith wishes West secured to England.

Company of Indies resign Louisiana to King.

Daniel Boone born.

Vincennes settled according to some, (see pp. 40 and 41.)

Expedition of French against Chickasaws.

D'Artaguette conquered.

Bienville fails in assault on Chickasaws.

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Bienville retreats.

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Five French villages in Illinois.

1751.

Forty vessels at New Orleans.
Dr. Walker explores Kentucky.

Christopher Gist explores Ohio and Great Miami.

November, Gist surveys lands south of Ohio, east of Kanawha.
General Andrew Lewis surveys for Greenbriar Company.

1752.

June,

1753. May, June,

August,

French build forts on French creek.

French attack English post on Great Miami.

Treaty of Logstown.

Families settle west of Alleghanies.

Pennsylvania Assembly informed of French movements.

Commissioner sent to warn French.

Trent sent with arms for friendly Indians.

Colonies authorized to resist French by force.

September, Treaty of Winchester.

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1756. January,

Braddock lands in Virginia.

France and England send fleets to America.
Braddock marches westward.

Expedition against Nova Scotia leaves Boston.

Braddock reaches Monongehela.

Braddock defeated.

Lewis commands an expedition against the Ohio Indians, and fails.
Indians fill the Valley of Virginia.

War declared between France and England.

Armstrong attacks Indians at Kittaning.
First treaty of Easton.

Massacre of Fort William Henry.

April,
May,

September,

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Pitt returns to office.

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Washington at Fort Du Quesne, which the French left on the 24th.
Second treaty of Easton.

Post's second mission to Ohio Indians.

Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Niagara, and Quebec yield to English.

The French yield Canada.

Cherokee War.

General Monkton treats with the Indians at Fort Pitt for land.
Settlers go over the mountains.

Rogers returns across Ohio to Fort Pitt.

1759.

1760. Sept. 8,

Sept. 13,

Rogers goes to Detroit.

Nov. 19,

Rogers reaches Detroit.

December,

1761.

1762.

Nov. 3.

1763. Feb, 10,

May 9,
June 4,

June,

Alexander Henry visits northwest.

Christian Post goes to settle on the Muskingum.

Bouquet warns settlers off of Indian lands.

Post and Heckewelder go to Muskingum.

Preliminaries to peace of Paris settled, Louisiana transferred to Spain.
Treaty of Paris concluded.

Detroit attacked by Pontiac.

Mackinac taken by Indians.

Presqu'ile (Erie) taken by Indians.

June to Aug. Fort Pitt besieged and relieved by Bouquet.

October,

Nov. 3,

Proclamation to protect Indian lands.

M. Laclede arrives in St. Genevieve.
December, M. Laclede selects site of St. Louis.

1764. June to Aug. Bradstreet makes peace with northern Indians.
November, Bouquet makes peace with Ohio Indians.
April 21,

1765. April,

French officers ordered to give up Louisiana to Spain.

Sir William Johnson makes treaty at German Flats.

May, June, George Croghan goes westward.

Captain Stirling for England takes possession of Illinois.

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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

Settlers cross mountains.
Walpole Company proposed.

Colonel James Smith visits Kentucky.

Western Indians grow impatient.

Franklin labors for Walpole Company.
Finley visits Kentucky.

Zeisberger founds mission on the Alleghany.

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Treaty of Fort Stanwix by which the title of the Iroquois to all south

of the Ohio is purchased.

Mississippi Company proposed.

Boone and others start for Kentucky.

Boone and others reach Red river.

Boone taken by Indians.

Treaty of Lochaber.

Ohio Company merged in Walpole Company.
Washington visits the West.

The Long Hunters explore the West.
The Zanes found Wheeling.
Moravians invited to Big Beaver.
Captain Pittman in Illinois.

Spain obtains possession of St. Louis.

The Boones return to North Carolina.

Indians killed by whites on Lower Kenawha.

Moravians invited by Delawares, found Shoenbrun on the Muskingum.
General Gage's proclamation against settlers on Wabash.

Boone and others start to settle Kentucky.

Boone and others are attacked by Indians and turn back.

Bullitt, McAfee, &c., descend the Ohio.

Bullitt, McAfee, &c., survey at Falls, and on Kentucky river.

General Thompson surveys in the valley of the Licking.

General Lyman goes to Natchez.

1774.

July,

January,

Jan. 25,

March 28,

April 16,

April 21,

June,

June 10,

July,

Purchase by Illinois Company in Illinois.

James Harrod in Kentucky.

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Dunmore sends Connolly to take possession of Pittsburgh as being
Connolly calls out the militia; he is arrested by St. Clair; his follow-

ers are riotous, and fire on the Indians.

Connolly, released on parole, comes to Pittsburgh with an armed force.
He rebuilds the fort and calls it Fort Dunmore.

Cherokees attack a boat on the Ohio.

Connolly writes to the settlers to beware of the Indians.

Cresap, having Connolly's letter, attacks Indians.

Greathouse murders several Indians.

Preparations for war.

Logan revenges his family.

Boone sent for surveyors in Kentucky.

Friendly Shawanese attacked by Connolly.

Traders murdered.

McDonald attacks Wappatomica.

Sept. 6 & 12, Troops under Lewis march down Kenhawa.

Oct. 6,
Oct. 10,

November,

1775. March 17,

April 1,

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Troops under Lewis reach Point Pleasant.

Battle of Point Pleasant.

Dunmore makes peace.

Treaty of Wataga; purchase by Transylvania Company.
Boone goes to Kentucky and founds Boonesboro'.

Henderson reaches Boonesboro'.

Henderson calls representatives together.

Legislature adjourns.

Massachusetts Council try to prevent hostility by Iroquois.

Guy Johnson influences Iroquois against Americans.
Oneidas and Tuscaroras adhere to America.

Boone and several families move to Kentucky.
Congress forms three Indian Departments.

Meeting of Commissioners and Indians at Albany.

October, Meeting of Commissioners and Indians at Pittsbro'.

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1776. April 29,
April 19,
May,
June 3,

July 7 to 21,

June 6,

August 23,
Dec. 7,
Dec. 25,

1777. Summer,

Spring,

April,

May,

April 20 to

August,

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

An attack on Detroit proposed in Congress.

Washington advises the employment of the Indians.

Indians incline to British.

Congress authorises the employment of Indians.
Indians attack Kentuckians; settlers leave.

George Rogers Clark moves to Kentucky.

Kentuckians petition Virginia for admission as citizens, and choose
Clark and Jones members of Virginia Assembly.

Clark procures powder from Council of Virginia.
Virginia admits Kentucky among her counties.
Clark and Jones return by Pittsbro' with powder.
Jones killed while going for powder to Limestone.
Clark reaches Harrodsburg.

Cornstalk murdered at Point Pleasant.
Congress of Indians and British at Oswego.
Kentucky infested with savages.
Kentucky chooses Burgesses.

Logan's station attacked.

June 22-Clark's spies in Illinois.

Logan crosses the mountains for powder.

Colonel Bowman and 100 men come from Virginia.

Sep.26 & 27, Fort Henry (Wheeling) attacked.

September, First Court at Harrodsburg.

Oct. 1,

Nov. 20,

Dec. 10,

1778. January 2,

February 7,

Clark leaves for Virginia.

The attack on Detroit urged in Congress.

Clark opens his plan for conquering Illinois to Governor of Virginia.

Orders issued to Clark to attack Illinois.
Boone taken prisoner at Blue Lick.
Boone carried to Detroit.

Clark passes Falls of Ohio.

McIntosh commands at Fort Pitt.
Fort McIntosh built.

March 10,

June 24,

June 16,

Boone escapes.

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New Jersey objects to land claims of Virginia.
Clark takes Kaskaskia.

Clark takes Cahokia.

St. Vincents joins the American cause.

Boone goes to attack Paint creek town.
Boonesboro' besieged.

Fort Laurens built.

September, Clark holds council with the Indians.

Sept. 17,

October,

December,

1779. Jan. 29,

January,

Feb. 7,

Feb. 24,

Treaty with Delawares at Pittsbro'.

Virginia grants Henderson and Company 200,000 acres on Green river.
Governor Hamilton takes Vincennes.

Clark hears of capture of Vincennes.

Delaware objects to land claims of Virginia.

Clark starts against Hamilton.

Hamilton surrenders.

1780.

Maryland objects to land claims of Virginia.

General Sullivan devastates Iroquois country.

Hamilton is sent to Virginia.

April 1,

Americans suspect and attack Iroquois.

Lexington Kentucky settled.

May,

Virginia passes land laws.

May 21,

July,

July,

August,

October,

Oct. 13,

Bowman's expedition against Indian towns on Miamies.
Fort Laurens abandoned.

September, Indians treat with Brodhead at Fort Pitt.

Oct. 30,

Feb. 19,
Spring,

Rogers and Benham attacked by Indians.

Land Commissioners open their sessions in Kentucky.
Congress asks Virginia to reconsider land laws.

Hard winter-great suffering.

New York authorises a cession of western lands.
Fort Jefferson built on Mississippi.

Great emigration to Kentucky.

Virginia grants lands in Kentucky for education.

Spring,

May,

May,

St. Louis attacked by British and Indians.
Louisville established by law.

June,

Byrd invades Kentucky.

1780. July,

July,
Sept. 6,
October,

October,

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

Clark prepares to attack Shawanese.
He destroys British store on Miami, &c.
Resolution of Congress relative to western lands.
Connecticut passes first act of cession.

Fort Pitt threatened by savages.

November, Kentucky divided into three counties.
December, Clark prepares to attack Detroit.

1781. Jan. 2, January, Feb. 15,

March 1,

Virginia makes her first act of cession.

Spaniards take St. Joseph's.

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Mr. Jay instructed that he may yield the navigation of the Mississippi.
New York cedes her western lands.

Brodhead attacks Delawares on Muskingum.

April 16, Mary Heckewelder born; first white child in Ohio.

Americans begin to settle in Illinois.

Chickasaws attack fort Jefferson.

September, Colonel Floyd rescued by Wells.

September, Moravians carried to Sandusky by British and Indians.

October,

1782. March, March,

March 22,

June,

June 11,

Aug. 14,

Moravian missionaries taken to Detroit.

Williamson leads a party against the Moravians, but finds the town
Kentucky organized.

Great emigration of girls to Kentucky.

Moravians murdered by Americans.

Moravian missionaries taken to Detroit.
Estill's defeat.

Crawford's expedition.

Crawford burnt.

Attack on Bryant's station.

Aug. 19, Battle of the Blue Licks.

September, Clark invades the Miami valleys the second time.

November, Land offices opened.

Nov. 30,

Provisional articles of peace with Great Britain.

Hostilities of United States and Great Britain cease.
Kentucky formed into one District.

Congress calls on States to cede lands.

English propose to carry away negroes.

Washington protests against course of English.

Rufus Putnam applies for lands in west.

Baron Steuben sent to receive western posts.
Cassaty sent to Detroit.

1783. Jan. 20,
March,
April 18,
April 19,

Peace proclaimed to the army.

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Virginia withdraws Clark's commission.

Definitive treaty of peace.

Washington writes to Duane about western lands.

Congress proposes terms of cession to Virginia.

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Dec. 20.

Nov. 25,

1784. Jan. 4,

Virginia authorises cession on terms proposed.
British leave New York taking negroes:
Daniel Brodhead opens a store in Louisville.

Treaty of peace ratified by United States.

February, James Wilkinson goes to Lexington Kentucky.
Virginia gives deed of cession.

March 1,

March 4,

Indian Commissioners reinstructed.

Pittsburgh re-surveyed.

England refuses to deliver up western posts.

April 9,

Treaty of peace ratified by England.

June 22,

Virginia refuses to comply with treaty.

July,

Oct. 22,

Treaty with Iroquois at Fort Stanwix.

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Logan calls meeting at Danville.

Kentucky receives many emigrants.

Treaty with Delawares, &c., at Fort McIntosh."

An attempt to settle at mouth of Scioto.

Ordinance for survey of western lands passed.
Second Kentucky Convention meets.
Don Gardoqui comes from Spain.

Third Kentucky Convention meets.

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