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ing payment of the nation, for sums due to them. As soon as 

 the war was fairly ended with England, the country north- 

 west of the Ohio river became the subject of public discussion, 

 for the reasons which we have assigned; hence the attention 

 of the old congress to this country at so early a period. The 

 verv first thing to be done, was to acquire the country from 

 the Indians. This was attempted by congress, by appointing 

 commissioners to treat with them. Such commissioners had 

 already repeitcdiv been appointed and had met the Indians at 

 Pittsburgh, Fort Mcintosh, &c., and after this as we shall see, 

 constant etforts were made by congress to treat with the Indi- 

 ans. It is hardly necessary to relate all the circumstances 

 attending these treaties, so we will only mention the several 

 times of holding them. Those who wish to see all these trea- 

 ties, may consult the volume of Indian treaties, now lying bcr 

 fore us, published by congress a few years since. 



At a verv early day, in our revolutionary war, Virginia had 

 promised all her soldiers, who served in that war, lands, wheth- 

 er they were regulars, militia, or belonged to the navy. As 

 soon as that contest was closed, the legislature convened at 

 Richmond, on the twentieth day of October, 1783, and during 

 that session passed "an Act for surveying the land given by 

 law to the officers and soldiers on continental and state estab- 

 lishment, and for the navy." This act passed on the sevenr 

 teenth day of December 1783. It authorised deputations from 

 these lines — continental, militia and navy to appoint a survey- 

 or for each line. This act recognized the officers, deputed by 

 those lines, by name, and authorized those officers or any 

 three of them to appoint their surveyors. On the same day, 

 on which the act passed, Richard C. Anderson, a Colonel in 

 the army, was appointed principal surveyor for the continental 

 line of the army, by the officers named in the act, as authoriz- 

 ed to appoint the surveyor. On the 20th day of July, 1784, 

 Colonel Anderson opened his office, for entries, at Louisville, 

 Kentucky. The tract appropriated to these soldiers, in Ken- 

 tucky, lay between Green and Cumberland rivers. Having- 

 exhausted that tract, Colonel Anderson closed his office for 



