Ohio Company of Associates. Purchase, 2,000,000 acres, north of the Ohio River, beginning on the west line of the seven ranges, extending to the eighteenth range, and far enough back from the river to make the full amount of acres. Through default on payment purchase reduced to a little over 1,000,000 acres. Original price, 70 cents per acre. Military Bounty Lands. 4000 acres reserved by the United States to redeem bounty certificates. Townships made five miles square. Western Reserve, Connecticut Reserve. Connecticut reserved a tract lying between forty-first parallel and the northern boundary line of the United States, extending 120 miles west from the Pennsylvania State line, for sustaining schools and churches. Later sold to the Connecticut Land Company. Fire Lands. In 1792 Connecticut, by an act of the State legislature, gave the western end of the Reserve, a half million acres, to the inhabitants of New London and other Connecticut towns whose property had been destroyed by British raids during the Revolution. Also known as" The Fire Sufferers' Land." Congress Lands. The lands unsold. Virginia Military District. Lest the land in Kentucky, as set apart by Virginia for the redemption of her bounty certificate, might prove insufficient, she reserved this district north of the Ohio River of over 6000 square miles. Zane's Trace. A cutting of the undergrowth and blazing of the trees sufficient to allow the passage of a wagon. It was done under authority of Congress to cut a road from Wheeling in a southwesterly direction to the Ohio River at Limestone (now Maysville), Kentucky. NORTHWEST TERRITORY. August 7, 1789. General Anthony St. Clair, then president of Congress, appointed governor. August 8, 1789. Washington designated the country as Western Territory." "The May 7, 1800. Divided into "Indian Territory," capital at Vincennes, and "Territory Northwest of the River Ohio," capital at Chillicothe. Gen. W. H. Harrison appointed governor of the Territory of Indiana. May 13, 1800. Connecticut resigned jurisdiction over the Western Reserve (q.v.). November 29, 1802. ОнIо admitted as a State, per United States census reports. January 11, 1805. Territory of Indiana subdivided; Territory of Michigan formed. February 3, 1809. Territory of Indiana again divided; Territory of Illinois formed. February 27, 1815. Western boundary of Territory of Illinois declared to include the islands between the middle and eastern margin of Mississippi River. December 11, 1816. INDIANA admitted as a State. April 18, 1818. A section of Territory of Illinois added to Territory of Michigan. December 3, 1818. ILLINOIS admitted as a State. June 28, 1834. Territory west of the Mississippi River and north of Missouri River attached to the Territory of Michigan. January 12, 1836. Boundary of Ohio and Territory of Michigan established. Ohio's gain. April 20, 1836. Territory of Wisconsin formed from Territory of Michigan. January 26, 1837. MICHIGAN admitted as a State. June 12, 1838. Territory of Iowa cut out of the trans-Mississippi section of Territory of Wisconsin. June 12, 1838. Boundary between Michigan and Territory of Wisconsin established. May 25, 1840. Southern boundary of Territory of Wisconsin established. December 28, 1846. iowa admitted as a State. May 29, 1848. WISCONSIN admitted as a State. March 3, 1849. Part of northwestern section of Wisconsin annexed to the Territory of Minnesota; St. Croix River made the boundary. May 11, 1858. MINNESOTA admitted as a State. SOUTHWEST TERRITORY. August 9, 1787. Cession of South Carolina. February 25, 1790. Cession of North Carolina. May 26, 1790. Act of Congress for government of the Territory. June 1, 1796. TENNESSEE admitted as a State. March 27, 1804. South Carolina cession added to Territory of Mississippi. TERRITORY OF MISSISSIPPI. April 7, 1798. Act of Congress provided for government. March 27, 1804. Cession of South Carolina, August 9, 1787, added on the north. May 14, 1812. Southern boundary enlarged. June 17, 1812. Congress's request on Georgia to assent to forma tion of two States. March 3, 1817. Eastern part made a separate Territory; Territory of Alabama. December 10, 1817. MISSISSIPPI admitted as a State. December 14, 1819. ALABAMA admitted as a State. PURCHASE FROM FRANCE. March 26, 1804. That portion of Louisiana south of 33° N. lat. set up as the Territory of Orleans. The trans-Mississippi region north of 31° known as the District of Louisiana. March 3, 1805. The District of Louisiana known as the Territory of Louisiana. June 4, 1812. The Territory of Louisiana called the Missouri Territory. April 30, 1812. March 2, 1819. August 10, 1821. State of Louisiana formed. Territory of Arkansas formed south of 36° 30'. State of Missouri formed. June 28, 1834. Northern portion of Louisiana purchase attached to the Territory of Michigan. For further division in territory and States of the Louisiana purchase and other acquired lands of the United States, see table "United States and Territories" and "Changes in the Areas of the States and Territories." |