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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

Commissioners correspond with Governor Simcoe.
Commissioners meet Brant and hold a council.

Commissioners at Elliott's house, mouth of Detroit river.
Commissioners meet Indian delegates.

Wayne leaves Cincinnati with his legion.
Wayne encamps at Greenville.

Wayne is joined by Kentuckians under Scott.
Lowry and Boyd attacked.

French emissaries sent west.

Field of St. Clair's defeat taken possession of by Wayne's troops.

Dissatisfaction in the West.

Opposition to excise feebler.

Whiskey riots recommence.

February, Lord Dorchester's speech to Indians.

The Mingo Creek Association formed.
Wayne prepares for his campaign.

April,

April,

General Simcoe builds a fort on the Maumee.
Democratic society formed at Pittsburgh.

May,

Spaniards offer help to Indians.

May,

French emissaries forced to leave west.

Summer,

Contest respecting Presqu'isle.

June 30,

Indians attacked Fort Recovery,

June,

Suits commenced against whiskey rioters.

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Power visits Kentucky, and writes to Sebastian.

Occupying claimant law of Kentucky passed,

W. H. Harrison appointed secretary of Northwest territory.
Alien and sedition laws passed.

Nullifying resolutions in Kentucky.

Death abolished in Kentucky, except for murder.

Representatives for Northwest territory first chosen.

1799; Feb. 4,

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Representatives of Northwest territory meet to nominate candidates for Council.

February, Kentucky constitution amended.

February Internal improvements talked of in Kentucky.

Sept. 24,
Oct. 6,

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Assembly of Northwest territory organizes at Cincinnati.

W. H. Harrison appointed delegate in Congress for N. West territory.

Indiana territory formed.

Connecticut yields jurisdiction of her reserve to the U. States, and U.
States gives her patents for the soil.

Treaty of St. Ildefonso.

Assembly of Northwest territory meets at Chillicothe.
First missionary in Connecticut Reserve.

W. H. Harrison appointed Governor of Indiana territory.
St. Clair re-appointed Governor of Northwest territory.

Cincinnati, in place of Chillicothe, again made seat of government for
Northwest territory.

Thomas Worthington goes to Washington to procure the erection of
Ohio into a state.

University at Athens, Ohio, established.

First Bank in Kentucky.

Congress agree that Ohio may become a state.

The Spanish Intendant forbids the use of N. Orleans by the Americans
Convention meets to form a constitution for Ohio.

Constitution formed.

New Orleans opened to Americans again.

Livingston and Munroe in France-purchase Louisiana.
Lands located for Miami University.

Miami Exporting Company chartered.

The Senate ratify the purchase of Louisiana.
Louisiana given up to the Americans.

Louisiana organised.

Lewis and Clarke start on their expedition.

Michigan territory formed.

Detroit burned to the ground.

Burr visits the west.

General Assembly meet in Indiana territory.

Tecumthe and the Prophet begin to influence the Indians.

Steps taken to make National road.

Burr's letter to Wilkinson.

Spaniards cross the Sabine.

Burr goes west; is at Pittsburg.

Lewis and Clarke return from Oregon.

Davies tries to arrest Burr.

Sebastian found guilty by Kentucky House of Representatives.
Burr's men go down the Ohio.

Burr's boats and stores arrested.

Burr meets his men at the mouth of the Cumberland.

Burr yields to civil authority of Mississippi.

Burr escapes and is seized.

Burr's trial at Richmond.

Slavery finally forbidden in Indiana.

Bank of Marietta chartered.

Bank of Chillicothe chartered.

Tecumthe and the Prophet remove to Tippecanoe.

Illinois territory formed.

Miami University chartered.

Meeting of Tecumthe and Harrison at Vincennes.

Tecumthe goes to the south.

Harrison proposes to visit Indians.

Harrison marches toward Tippecanoe.

First steamer (New Orleans) leaves Pittsburg.

Battle of Tippecanoe.

Great earthquakes begin.

General Hull marches from Dayton.

British at Malden hear of the declaration of war.

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Aug. 16,

Hull surrenders.

Aug, 15,

Sept. 8,

Sept. 17,

Oct.

Oct.

Dec.

1813. Jan. 10.

Massacre of troops near Chicago.
Fort Harrison attacked.

W. H. Harrison appointed Commander in Northwest.
General Hopkins attacks the Indians on the Wabash.
Governor Edwards attacks the Indians on the Illinois.
Colonel Campbell attacks the Indians on the Missisinneway.

Winchester reaches the rapids of Maumee.

Sends troops to Frenchtown.

British at Frenchtown defeated.

Americans defeated at Frenchtown, with great loss.
Massacre of the wounded.

Harrison retreats to Portage river.

Harrison advances to Maumee, and builds Fort Meigs.

General Clay reaches Fort Meigs; Dudley's party lost.
British return to Malden.

British fleet prepare to attack Erie.

Perry's vessels leave Erie.

American army at Malden.

American army at Sandwich.

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Fort Meigs besieged.

May 5,

May 9,

July 18,

July 31,

Fort Stephenson besieged.

Aug. 2,

Siege of Fort Stephenson raised.

Aug. 4,

Sept. 10,

Victory by Perry, on lake Erie.

Sept. 27,

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Battle of the Thames.

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United States bank opens branches in Cincinnati and Chillicothe.
Illinois becomes a State.

The first steamer on Lake Erie.

September, Contest of Ohio and the United States bank.

1820. December, Nullification resolutions of Ohio.

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1832. February, May 14,

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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.

Barking law of Ohio creating a State bank with branches, and

independent banks.

Observatory at Cincinnati finished.

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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. 1810.

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.

Blackhawk's Account of Himself. Cincinnati. 1833.

Beecher's Account of Alton Riots. Alton. 1838.

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.

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Journal.
Carver's Travels. London. 1780.-Philadelphia.
Contest in America between England and France.
Colden's History of the Iroquois. London. 1755.

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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 Vol. 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.

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