Louisiana and Aaron Burr 249 



Wayne's aid-de-camp at the fight of the Fallen Tim- 

 bers, and had been singled out by Wayne for men- 

 tion because of his coolness and gallantry. After- 

 ward he had succeeded Sargent as Secretary of the 

 Northwestern Territory when Sargent had been 

 made Governor of Mississippi, and he had gone as 

 a Territorial delegate to Congress. 3 



In 1802 Ohio was admitted as a State. St. Clair 

 and St. Clair's supporters struggled to keep the Ter- 

 ritory from Statehood, and proposed to cut it down 

 in size, nominally because they deemed the extent 

 of territory too great for governmental purposes, 

 but really, doubtless, because they distrusted the peo- 

 ple, and did not wish to see them take the govern- 

 ment into their own hands. The effort failed, how- 

 ever, and the State was admitted by Congress, be- 

 ginning its existence in i8o3. 4 Congress made the 

 proviso that the State Constitution should accord 

 with the Constitution of the United States, and 

 should embody the doctrines contained in the Ordi- 

 nance of 1787* The rapid settlement of south- 

 eastern Ohio was hindered by the fact that the 

 speculative land companies, the Ohio and Scioto 

 associations, held great tracts of territory which the 

 pioneers passed by in their desire to get to lands 



* Jacob Burnett in "Ohio Historical Transactions," Part 

 II., Vol. I, p. 69.- 



4 Atwater, "History of Ohio," p. 169. 



5 The question of the boundaries of the Northwestern 

 States is well treated in "The Boundaries of Wisconsin," by 

 Reuben G. Thwaites, the Secretary of the State Historical 

 Society of Wisconsin. 



