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of Ohio, but made little progress until after the 

 close of the Indian war. 



Another very considerable settlement com- 

 menced, in 1796', on a tract of land, called the 

 Virginia Reservation, situated between the 

 Scioto and Little Miami rivers. This land was 

 located by army warrants, granted originally to 

 the troops of the Virginia line of the revolution- 

 ary army. A part of the settlers were from 

 Virginia, but far the greatest number from the 

 State of Kentucky. The town of Chillicothe 

 was began in the autumn of this year (1796), 

 and so rapid was the increase of inhabitants that 

 it was made an incorporate town in about five 

 years. The Territorial Assembly of the rep 

 resentatives of the people convened in this 

 town for several years, and it continued the seat 

 of government until 1809, when, by act of As- 

 sembly, it was moved to Zanesville on the 

 river Muskingum. 



On the 13th of April, 1802, the people were 

 authorized, by an act of Congress, to form a 

 constitution and State government, and were 

 accordingly admitted into the Union upon the 

 same footing with the original States. By the 

 same act, the boundaries of the State were es- 

 tablished on the following lines^ viz. u Begin- 

 ning on the east by the Pennsylvania line ; on 

 the south, by the Ohio river to the mouth of the 

 Great Miami river ; on the west by a line drawn 

 due north from the mouth of the Great Miami ? 



