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1781. Chickasaws attack Fort Jefferson.

Moravians carried to Sandusky by British and Indians.
Moravian Missionary taken to Detroit.

Williamson leads a party against Moravian Indians.
Clark forestalls surplus provisions of Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvanians disgusted with the grasping conduct of Clark.
Col. Brodhead prevents Virginians removing cannon from Pitt.
Great emigration of girls to Kentucky.

Washington county, Pennsylvania, established.

1782. British establish a military post at Sandusky.
Moravian Indians murdered by Americans.
Moravian missionaries taken to Detroit.
Attack on Estill's station-whites defeated.
Crawford's expedition-taken prisoner and burnt.
Attack on Bryant's station.

Battle at the Blue Licks; Kentuckians defeated.
Land offices opened for Virginia lands.

Clark's second incursion through Miami valley.
Provisional articles of peace with Great Britain.
Rice's Fort, near Wheeling, assailed by Indians.
Lexington, Ky., incorporated by Virginia Assembly.
Fort Nelson built at falls of Ohio, Louisville.

Catfish, (Washington,) Pennsylvania, first laid out as a town.

1783. Hostilities between United States and Great Britian cease.
Kentucky formed into one district.

Congress calls on the States to cede lands.
Peace proclaimed to the army.

English propose to carry away slaves.

Washington protests against course of English.
Rufus Putnam applies for lands in the West.
Baron Steuben sent to receive Western posts.

Cassaty sent to Detroit.

Virginia withdraws Clark's commission.

Definitive treaty of Peace.

Washington writes to Duane about Western lands.
Congress proposes terms of cession to Virginia.
Congress forbids all purchases of Indian lands.
Congress instructs Indian Commissioners.
Virginia grants Clark and his soldiers lands.

Virginia authorizes cession on terms proposed.

British leave New York, (taking slaves.)

Col. Daniel Brodhead opens first store in Kentucky, at Louisville.

1784. Col. James Wilkinson opens second store in Kentucky, at Lexington.

Treaty of Peace ratified by the United States.

Virginia gives deed of cession.

Indian commissioners re-instructed.

Pittsburgh re-surveyed; population increases.

Treaty of Peace ratified by England.

Virginia refuses to comply with treaty.

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1784. England refuses to deliver up Western posts.
Treaty with Iroquois at Fort Stanwix.

Logan calls a meeting at Danville.
First Kentucky Convention meets.
Kentucky receives many emigrants.
Maysville, Kentucky, settled.

1785. Treaty with Delawares, &c., at Fort M'Intosh.

Severe penalty against settling north of Ohio river.

All previous settlers forced from their homes.

Officers of United States enjoined to prevent families crossing Ohio.
An attempt to settle at mouth of Scioto in defiance of law.

The aggressors are killed by Indians.

Ordinance for the survey of Western lands passed.

Second Kentucky Convention meets.

Don Gardoqui comes from Spain.

Third Kentucky Convention meets.

A colony emigrates from Virginia to Illinois.

Great confederacy of Northern Indians formed by Brant.

Fort Harmar built at mouth of Muskingum.

First survey of lands in the North-West Territory, (Congress land.)
Morgantown, Virginia, established.

1786. Brant visits England to learn purposes of ministers.

Virginia agrees to independence of Kentucky.

Putnam and Tupper call meeting to form Ohio Company.
Treaty with Shawanese at Fort Finney, (mouth of Miami.)

Ohio Company of associates formed.

Governor of Virginia writes to Congress respecting Indian invasions.
The negotiation about Mississippi before Congress.

Resolution of Congress produces cession by Connecticut.

Congress authorizes the invasion of North-Western Territory.

Pittsburgh Gazette commenced; first printing in Ohio valley.

Jay authorized to yield navigation of Mississippi at a definite term.
Pursuant to invasion of N. W. Territory, Clark marches to Vincennes.
Clark ascends the Wabash to Vermilion river.

Kentucky troops become mutinous, and return home without discharge.
Clark abandons the expedition, and returns to Vincennes.

Connecticut makes a second act of cession.

Americans seize Spanish property at Vincennes.

Virginia protests against yielding navigation of Mississippi.
Great dissatisfaction throughout the West.

Governor of Virginia informed of Clark's movements.

Great Indian council in North-West-they address Congress.
Frankfort, Kentucky, established by Virginia Assembly.

1787. Fourth Kentucky convention meets.

New England Ohio Land Company choose directors.
Meeting in Kentucky relative to navigation of Mississippi.
Wilkinson goes to New Orleans.

Dr. Cutler negotiates with Congress for lands.
Congress makes order in favor of Ohio Company.

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1787. Ordinance passed for government of North West Territory.
Innis refuses to prosecute invaders of Indian lands.

Kentucky Gazette established at Lexington.
Symmes of New Jersey applies for land.

First entries of Virginia reserve lands North of the Ohio.
Fifth Kentucky convention meets.

New England Ohio Land Company completes a contract.
Symmes' application referred to Board of Treasury.
United States troops ordered West.

St. Clair appointed Governor of North-Western Territory.
New Englanders of Ohio Land Company prepare to go West.
Symmes issues proposals for settlers.

John Brown, first Western Representative, goes to Congress.
Fort Franklin, on the site of Franklin, Pennsylvania, built.

1788. Indians expected to make a treaty at Marietta.

Denham purchases the site of Losantiville, (Cincinnati.)
The admission of Kentucky debated in Congress.
New Englanders of Ohio Company land at Muskingum.
Marietta and her avenues named with pomp and pageantry.
Admission of Kentucky refused by Congress.

St. Clair reaches the North-Western Territory.
Sixth Kentucky convention meets.

First law of North-Western Territory published.
Symmes starts for the West.

Losantiville (Cincinnati) planned and surveyed.
First Court held at Marietta.

Symmes reaches his purchase; is overjoyed.
Another Grand Indian council in the North-West.
Indians forbid treaties with separate nations.

Seventh Kentucky convention meets.

Columbia settled by Stites and others.

Doctor Connolly in Kentucky as a spy and British agent.
The founder of Cincinnati leaves Maysville.

Cincinnati reached according to McMillan.

Virginia passes third act to make Kentucky independent.

Colonel George Morgan, of New Jersey, at New Madrid.

Almanacs first printed at Lexington, Kentucky.

Great emigration West: about five thousand persons pass Fort Harmar.
Maysville, Kentucky, established a town.

1789. Treaty of Fort Harmar concluded.

Wilkinson goes to New Orleans again.

Daniel Story first clergyman and teacher at Marietta.

Symmes' settlement threatened by Indians.

The force sent to protect Symmes go to Losantiville.

Major Doughty builds Fort Washington at Losantiville, (Cincinnati.)
Western scouts withdrawn by Virginia.

Eighth Kentucky convention meets.

Governor Miro of New Orleans writes to Sebastian.

Congress empowers President to call out Western militia.

President authorizes Governor St. Clair to call out militia.

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1789. General Harmar reaches Fort Washington with three hundred troops.
Thomas Hutchins, United States Geographer, died at Pittsburgh.
Fort Steuben, (or blockhouse) built near Charleston, on upper Ohio river.

1790.

Governor St. Clair arrives at Losantiville and names it Cincinnati.
Governor St. Clair descends the Ohio to Fort Steuben, (Jeffersonville.)
Governor St. Clair proceeds to Vincennes.

Governor St. Clair crosses prairies to Kaskaskia.

Antoine Gamelin sent to upper Wabash Indians.

Indian hostilities take place.

St. Clair calls out Western militia.

Ninth Kentucky convention meets.

Troops gather at Fort Washington, (Cincinnati.)

Harmar leaves Fort Washington and marches northward.

Colonel Hardin with the advance reaches Miami villages.

Main army reaches Miami villages.

Camp at Miami village; men behave unsoldier-like.

Colonel Trotter is sent to reconnoitre the Indian haunts.

Hardin attacks Indians; not successfully.

Hardin desires another trial with Indians; is again defeated.
Harmar looses all confidence in the militia.

Harmar dissatisfied with Colonel Trotter.

Harmar marches on return to Fort Washington.

Army halts at old Chillicothe; soldiers disobedient.

Militia men are punished by whipping.

Harmar reprimands Colonel Trotter and Major McMullen.

Mutiny of Kentuckians quashed—army proceeds to Fort Washington.

Western inhabitants petition Congress to fight Indians in their own way.
Massey and others contract to settle Manchester.

1791. Big Bottom settlement destroyed by Indians.

Excise laid on ardent spirits by Congress.

General Charles Scott authorized to march against Indians.

Proctor starts on his Western mission.

Proctor reaches Buffalo creek.

Proctor is refused a vessel to cross Lake Erie.

Family of Kirkpatricks attacked at morning worship and murdered by Indians

in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania.

St. Clair at Fort Washington preparing his expedition.

Proctor abandons his mission and returns.

General Charles Scott marches against Wabash Indians.

Meeting at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, against excise.

Wilkinson marches against Eel river Indians.

Excise officers of Allegheny and Washington counties, Pennsylvania, assailed.
Meeting at Pittsburgh to oppose excise law.

St. Clair commences his march northward.

St. Clair builds Fort Hamilton on Great Miami.

St. Clair and Butler disagree.

St. Clair builds Fort Jefferson in North-Western Territory.

St. Clair marches north, towards head of Maumee.

St. Clair arrives at a branch of Wabash, supposed to be the St. Mary's.

St. Clair is attacked and defeated. Army disorganized.

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1791. Portion of the army returns to Fort Washington.

Feeble garrisons are left at Forts Jefferson and Hamilton.

Terror of Indian invasion expressed by Western Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Massacre of Jolly's family, near Wheeling.

1792. Peace offered by the United States to Western Indians, through the Senecas.

Pond and Stedman sent West as peace-makers.

Brant invited by government to Philadelphia.

Wilkinson sends a party to the field of St. Clair's defea+

Gallipolis settled by deluded French colonists.

Iroquois chiefs visit Philadelphia.

Instructions issued to Trueman.

Kentucky admitted into the Union as a State.
Excise law amended, though not to satisfaction.

Hendrick, a Stockbridge Indian chief, sent West.
Instructions issued to Rufus Putnam.

Trueman and Hardin leave Fort Washington.

Pennsylvania purchases from Congress the Triangle tract.
Gen. Wayne moves westward.

Brant, pursuant to invitation, visits Philadelphia.

Fire lands given to sufferers by Connecticut.

Great anti-excise meeting at Pittsburgh.

Rufus Putnam makes treaty with Indians at Vincennes.

Great Indian Council at "Grand Glaize," (Fort Defiance.)

Adair attacked near Fort St. Clair.

Opposition to excise law diminishes.

United States troops at Legionville, on the Ohio.

1793. United States Legion goes down to Cincinnati.

Last Indian depredation in Kentucky.

Pickering and others appointed to treat with Indians at Maumee.

Unusual preparations for a council and treaty at Sandusky.

Citizen Genet reaches the United States.

Commissioners for council with Indians reach Niagara.

Genet is presented to Washington.

First Democratic Society in Philadelphia.

Commissioners correspond with Governor Simcoe.
Commissioners meet Brant and hold a council.
Commissioners at Elliott's house, head of Lake Erie.
Indians arrive at Elliott's, and meet Commissioners
Indians decline meeting Americans at Sandusky.
Final action of the Commissioners and Indians.
Wayne leaves Cincinnati with his legion.
Wayne encamps at Greenville.

Wayne is joined by Kentuckians, under Scott.

Lowry and Boyd attacked near Fort St. Clair.
French emissaries sent West.

Field of St. Clair's defeat visited by Wayne.
Fort Recovery built on St. Clair's battle ground.
Western people dissatisfied with government.
Opposition to excise feebler.

First session of Kentucky Assembly at Frankfort.
Brant gives the true character of the British.