CHAPTER III 



THE MEN OF THE WESTERN WATERS, 1/98-1802 



THE growth of the West was very rapid in the 

 years immediately succeeding the peace with 

 the Indians and the treaties with England and Spain. 

 As the settlers poured into what had been the In- 

 dian-haunted wilderness it speedily became necessary 

 to cut it into political divisions. Kentucky had al- 

 ready been admitted as a State in 1792; Tennessee 

 likewise became a State in 1796. The Territory of 

 Mississippi was organized in 1798, to include the 

 country west of Georgia and south of Tennessee, 

 which had been ceded by the Spaniards under Pinck- 

 ney's treaty. 1 In 1800 the Connecticut Reserve, 

 in what is now northeastern Ohio, was taken by the 

 United States. The Northwestern Territory was 

 divided into two parts; the eastern was composed 

 mainly of what is now the State of Ohio, while the 

 western portion was called Indian Territory, and 

 was organized with W. H. Harrison as Governor, 

 his capital being at Vincennes. 2 Harrison had been 



1 Claiborne's "Mississippi," p. 220, etc. 



8 "Annals of the West," by Thomas H. Perkins, p. 473. 

 A valuable book, showing much scholarship and research. 

 The author has never received proper credit. Very few in- 

 deed of the Western historians of his date showed either his 

 painstaking care or his breadth of view. 

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