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The Ordinance of 1787 created the Northwest Territory which gave rise to five states completely and one other in part. The states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota came from this territory. This volume gives a brief history of that Territory and some of the area that we now consider the upper mid-west. There are a series of maps included that show the progression of the states development.
A century and a half ago, on the thirteenth day of July, 1787, the Congress of the United States, in session at New York, among its last acts under the Articles of Confederation, enacted an ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River. We know of no legislative enactment, proposed and accomplished in any country, in any age, by monarch, by representatives, or by the peoples themselves, that has received praise so exalted, and at the same time so richly deserved, as has this same Ordinance of 1787. …etc…
ARMSTRONG, ASTOR
BACKUS, BARLOW, BATTELLE, BENTON, BONAPARTE, BOONE, BRECK, BROOKS, BUELL, BURNHAM
CARRINGTON, CARVER, CHASE, CHURCHILL, CLARK, CLEAVELAND, COLES, CORY, CRARY, CUSHING, CUTLER
DANE, DAVIS, DEHLS, DELANEY, DENMAN, DEVOL, D’HEBECOURT, DODGE, DOUGHTY, DUANE, DUER
EGGEBRECHT
FORCE, FRANKLIN
GOODALE, GREEN
HAMILTON, HARMAR, HARRISON, HASKELL, HAYNE, HENNEPIN, HENRY, HILDRETH, HINSDALE, HOGLAND, HOWELL, HUNE, HUTCHINS
JACKSON, JEFFERSON
KELLOGG, KENTON, KING, KIRSCHOFF, KROFFT
LAKE, LAWECK, LEE, LINCOLN, LOTHROP, LUDLOW
MARSHALL, MASSIE, MATHEWS, MAY, MEIGS
NICOLET
OLIVER, OLSON, OSGOOD, OSTERHAG, OWEN
PARSONS, PATTERSON, PERRY, PETREY, PICKERING, PIKE, PLATT, PLAYFAIR, POND, POOLE, POPE, POST, PUTNAM
RANDOLPH, RUSH
ST. CLAIR, SARGENT, SPROAT, STITES, SYMMES
THOMPSON, THWAITES, TUPPER, TURNER
VAHLE, VARNUM
WALKER, WASHINGTON, WAYNE, WEBSTER, WHITE, WILLIAMS, WILLISON
ZEISBERGER
