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others what they are in possession of by inheritance 

 from their remote ancestors. Hence they will for a 

 long time offer resistance as much as in them lies, and 

 even now they lose no opportunity of cutting off all 

 who venture on the north and west banks of the Ohio, 

 suspected as coming in the quality of land-seekers + 

 and surveyors.* However, the Congress has already 

 determined upon a division of this still unpossessed 

 land which, falling to the Congress under the treaty 

 and lying beyond the limits of the old provinces as 

 hitherto fixed, is called Congress-land. From this tract 

 will be taken the bounty-lands for the troops of the 

 states of Man-land, Delaware, Jersey, Connecticut, 

 Rhode-Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire ; 

 the remaining states have enough waste land of their 

 own for the purpose. By a resolution of the Congress f 

 this soldiers' land is to form a new state of itself, in- 

 cluding all that country from the Big Miami up to 

 Lake Erie, with Pensylvania to the east and the Ohio 

 to the south-east, a tract nearly as large as Pensylvania. 

 So has the Congress declared, and there is only lacking 

 the consent and the cession of the Indians. 



Among all those settlements begun to the west of 

 the mountains, none hastens more swiftly to comple- 



* According to the latest accounts from America (of the 

 year 1786) the Indians are letting it be known, by numerous 

 murders committed along the frontiers, that they are unwill- 

 ing their lands should come into the possession of the Ameri- 

 cans. They will not be bound by treaties between England 

 and the United States, and they will in no way cede their land. 



t New and remarkable resolutions of the Congress touching 

 the establishment and setting-off of ten new states, from the 

 whole of the western country, are to be found in Appendix 

 No. 2. 



