Pioneer History: Being and Account of the First Examinations of the Ohio Valley,: and the Early Settlement of the Northwest Territory

by S.P. Hildreth

In the year 1787, George Washington was President of the newly formed Government of the United States of America. The Capitol was located in New York City. The vast area west of the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River was acquired from Great Britain by the Treaty of Paris in 1783. This area was bordered on the north by Canada and on the south by the Ohio River and encompassed the present day states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. ...

562 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1971