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Kentucky, August 1st, 1787, and opened it for entries of land 

 in Ohio. Tiiis land lay between the Scioto and Little Miami 

 rivers. Colonel Anderson died, in October, 1826. The office 

 was closed until Allen Latham, EsauiRE, his son-in-law, re- 

 ceived the appointment of principal surveyor, and opened his 

 office at Chillicothe in July, 1829. 



INDIAN TREATIES, BY WHICH THE LANDS IN OHIO WERE 



PURCHASED. 



By the treaties with the Indians of 1785-6, congress ac- 

 quired the lands watered by the Muskingum, Scioto, Little and 

 Great Miami rivers. In 1788, another treaty was made, by 

 which the country was purchased, from the mouth of the Cuy- 

 ahoga river to the Wabash, lying south and east of a certain 

 line, mentioned in the treaty. The Indians were dissatisfied 

 with this treaty, and it was not relied on by our government. 

 In 1795, twelve tribes attended on General Wayne and treat- 

 ed with him, for the sale of a considerable portion of the now 

 territory, included within our limits. In 1805, seven tribes 

 sold to the United States, all that part of New Connecticut, 

 lying west of the Cuyahoga river. In this treaty the Connec- 

 ticut people joined and paid four thousand dollars to the Indi- 

 ans, and agreed to pay them twelve thousand dollars more. In 

 1807, that part of Ohio which lies north of the Maumee, and 

 east of a meridian line, passing through the mouth of the Au- 

 glaize rivers was purchased of the Indians. In 1808 a slip of 

 territory two miles wide, was acquired by treaty, running 

 from the western boundary of the Western Reserve to the 

 Maumee river, at the rapids. And in the same treaty another 

 slip one hundred and twenty feet in width, was acquired also, 

 running along the bank of the Maumee. These cessions 

 were intended for roads. By all these several treaties, the 

 United States acquired four-fifths of this state. That portion 

 of the ceded tracts above latidude 41° north, extending from 

 Pennsylvania on the east, to the western limits of Sandusky 

 and Seneca counties, was given by congress to Connecticut, 



