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Western scouts withdrawn by Virginia.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.

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.

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 defeat.

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.

1794. Fort built at Le Boeuf (Waterford,) by Major Denny.

Whisky riots re-commence.

Lord Dorchester's speech to Indians.
The Mingo Creek Association formed.
Wayne prepares for his campaign.

Governor Simcoe builds a fort on Maumee.
Democratic Society formed at Fittsburgh.
Spaniards offer help to Indians.

French emissaries forced to leave the West.

Contest respecting Presqu' Isle.

Indians attack Fort Recovery.

Suits commenced against whisky rioters.

Gathering about Neville's house.

Neville's house burnt.

Meeting at Mingo Creek.

Mail robbed by Bradford.

Charles Scott, with fifteen hundred men, joins Wayne.

Great gathering at Braddock's field.

Washington issues proclamation against insurgents.

Wayne marches toward Maumee.

Wayne sends his last message to Indians.

Wayne commences building Fort Defiance.

Wayne builds Fort Deposit.

Wayne meets and conquers Indians.

Wayne's correspondence with Col. Campbell.

Wayne threatens Fort Miami.

Wayne returns to Fort Defiance and finishes it.

Wayne marches to head of Maumee.

Fort Wayne built at head of Maumee.

Commissioners of government meet whisky insurgents.

British try to prevent Indians making peace.

Vote taken upon obedience to the law in Pennsylvania.
Vote not satisfactory to the government.

Washington calls out militia of four States.

Gen. Lee marches, with militia, against insurgents.
The most guilty malcontents escape by flight.

The less guilty surrender without resistance.

Indians ask for peace of Col. Hamtramck.

Last depredation by Indians in Western Virginia.
Sandy Lake Fort, Minnesota, erected.

1795. Block-house built at Presqu' Isle (Erie,) by Gen. Irvine. Indians sign preliminaries of a treaty.

Prisoners are interchanged.

Connecticut prepares to sell her reserve.

Council of Greenville opens.

The Baron de Carondelet writes to Sebastian.

Jay's protracted treaty finished.

Treaty of Greenville signed.

Council with Indians at Greenville closed.

Grant by Congress to Gallipolis settlers.

Connecticut sells Western Reserve to land company.

1795. Pinckney concludes a treaty with Spain. Dayton, Ohio, laid out by Ludlow.

1796. Chillicothe, Ohio, laid off and settled. Sebastian visits the South-West.

Cleveland, Ohio, laid out and named.

British surrender posts in the North-West.
Difficulties with Spain recommence.
Gen. Wayne died at Presqu' Isle, (Erie.)
First paper manufactory in the West.
Dayton, Ohio, first populated.

Congress donates land to Ebenezer Zane.

Fort Malden, Canada West, building commenced.
Tract of land granted to the Zanes.

1797. Power visits Kentucky and writes to Sebastian. Daniel Boone moves west of Mississippi.

Occupying claimant law of Kentucky passed.

Cleveland, Ohio, first populated.

Brooke county, Virginia, erected.

British subjects from Detroit settle near Fort Malden.

1798. William Henry Harrison made Secretary of North-West Territory.

Alien and sedition laws passed.

Nullifying resolutions in Kentucky.

Representatives for North-Western Territory first chosen.

Washington appointed (a second time,) commander-in-chief of American army.

Steubenville, Ohio, founded-streets surveyed at right angles.

Transylvania University established at Lexington, Kentucky.

Amhertsburg, adjacent to Fort Malden, settled by Britons from Detroit.

1799. Greensburg, Pennsylvania, incorporated a borough.

Representatives of North-Western Territory meet.
Representatives nominate candidates for Council.

Assembly of North-Western Territory organize at Cincinnati.

W. H. Harrison appointed delegate in Congress from North-West Territory.
Zanesville laid out and settled on Zane's tract.

1800. Great increase of products sent from Ohio river.

Indiana Territory formed.

Connecticut yields jurisdiction of her reserve.

United States gives Connecticut patents for the soil.

Treaty of St. Ildefonso.

Assembly of North-West Territory meets at Chillicothe.

First missionary in Connecticut Reserve.

Lancaster, Ohio, surveyed and settled.

Congress authorizes the President to make inquiry for copper-mines in North

West.

President, John Adams, appoints an agent to examine the south side of Lake

Superior.

A number of new counties made in Western Pennsylvania.