... WHEN DID OHIO IN FACT BECOME A SOVEREIGN WHEN DID OHIO IN FACT BECOME A SOVEREIGN STATE OF THE UNION BY HON RUSH R SLOANE In considering this question it is necessary to advert to the fact that after the Declaration of Independence Connecticut set up a claim to the north part of Ohio above latitude 41 north and Virginia claimed
... OHIOOHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE BEGINNING OF THE OHIO COMPANY AND THE SCIOTO PURCHASE BY MAJOR E C DAWES The beginning of the year 1783 saw the Revolutionary war virtually at an end although the final treaty of peace was not signed until September third The colonies had achieved their independence at the price of ...
... 20th day of October 1783 20th of May 1785 the following section which so far as respects the subject of schools remains unaltered There shall be reserved for the United States out of every township the four lots being numbered 8 11 26 29 and out Application to Erect the Northwest Ter Application to Erect the Northwest Ter into a State 73 of every fractional part of a township so many lots ...
... 20th when the ordinance 20th 1776 and other 20th 1785 they were as 20th 1785 I v L U S p 20th of May 1785 complete returns whereof to be made to the treasury board The lot No 16 in each township or fractional part of a township to be ...
... century will have elapsed century has completed its round since those army veterans after a long and tedious journey landed from their Mayflower at the mouth of the Muskingum The government which Congress had provided in anticipation was immediately established the first law for the Northwest Territory having been promulgated at Marietta on the 25th of July Other groups of immigrants came ...
... 20th of June 1790 St 20th of May 1785 and with the said southern boundary west to the S W corner of the sixth township in the fifth range thence north along the western boundary of said fifth range to the termination thereof thence due west to the Muskingum river and up the same to and with the portage between it and the Cuyahoga river thence down Cuyahoga to Lake Erie thence easterly along ...
... 20th to take effect April 30 1803 Franklinton lay within the boundaries of the new county and was made the county seat and a county jail-usually the first requisite of the initiative of a Christian civilization-an edifice of hewn logs - was erected by Lucas Sullivant at a cost of 80 In 1808 a brick court house was erected from the clay of one of the ancient mounds in the neighborhood We cannot follow the career conspicuous as it was of ...
... HELEN M HELEN M THURSTON The 1802 Constitutional Convention and Status of the Negro What does the 1802 Ohio constitution say regarding freedom suffrage and citizen rights for negroes and mulattoes1 How were decisions made at the constitutional convention Who were the decision-makers Since even today confusion exists in historical studies on these questions it is hoped that answers in some degree can be obtained from a vote by vote study of ...
... 20th On the evening of 20th the Shawanese and Chippewas were present in addition to the rest and the General read to them his message to the hostile Indians on the 13th of August 1794 He also read and explained the treaty of Fort Harmar'and pointed out a number of chiefs who were present and signed both that and the treaty of Fort McIntosh and asked them to consider seriously what he had ...
... century On every good map of Ohio it will be noticed that a line starts on the northern boundary of Tuscarawas county and passes in a south of west direction through the county of Holmes and on across the State to the counties of Shelby and Mercer What is this line Why is it there Who established it and when are the frequent inquiries made and which have not been heretofore answered in such ...
... THE SALE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE THE SALE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE AT the beginning of the Revolutionary War the State of Connecticut claimed the strip of land lying within her charter limits forty-one degrees and forty-two degrees two minutes north latitude extending from the Delaware River to the Mississippi River The State of Pennsylvania also claimed so much of this strip as lay within her charter limits that is east of a meridian line five degrees west of the Delaware A bitter controversy ...
... century which has passed since the signing of the Treaty of Greenville The harvests are peacefully gathered to their garners the valleys rustle with standing corn and the songs of our homes are uninvaded by the cries and terrors of battle The soil itself was dedicated to human freedom and has never been cursed by the unrequited toil of the bondman The institutions and laws of five great Republics are founded on the imperishable principles of ...
... agriculture He was subsequently United States Senator and Minister to France and the author of several standard works Perhaps the most able and brilliant of the three Judges who first presided over the courts of the Northwest Territory was Judge Varnum He was a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Brown University and like his associates on the bench was a soldier of the Revolution At the close of the war he resumed the practice of his ...
... INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN OHIO INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN OHIO BY S S KNABENSHUE Ever since the civilized nations of the world began to occupy lands peopled by savages they have based their claims upon the right of discovery followed by occupation This principle has been judicially affirmed by the United States Supreme Court which declared that discovery gave an exclusive right to extinguish the ...
... century ago in the Scioto century after a remarkable century of which we celebrate to-day And Tiffin had a foeman worthy of his steel Arthur St Clair the first and only Governor of the Northwest Territory was one of the most brilliant and distinguished military characters of the Revolutionary Centennial Celebration Centennial Celebration ...
... 40 Ohio Arch 40 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 MAJOR JOHN BURNHAM AND HIS COMPANY Mr Barlow had written Colonel Duer early in December 1789 that huts must be built on land opposite the mouth of the Great Kanawha to accommodate at least one hundred persons The cost of these huts was to be paid by the agent of the immigrants upon their arrival In March 1790 General Rufus Putnam ...
... century and a half In the century Detroit was the century belonged to his century before Jacques century however that France and England followed up their discoveries and began to perfect their respective titles by actual occupation of ...
... OHIOOHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY MARCH 1888LEGISLATION IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY APRIL 2 1788 a band of forty-eight pioneers left the mouth of the Voughiogheny in the Mayflower of the West Floating out into the Monongahela they emerged on the broad bosom of the Ohio and began an easier journey down that beautiful river to ...
... century Lord Say and Lord century and always exerted century and perhaps much century the Salt Water century arisen on the century had been enacted
... century Slowly but surely century look upon this temple of our State still strong and stable its foundation sure and steadfast its towers and columns captivating by their beauty the eyes of the world its people happy united and prosperous in a government the union of whose States shall be one of both hands and hearts and the sun of religious liberty shining its pure and untarnished rays into ...