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The Ohio Valley in Colonial Days

The Ohio Valley in Colonial Days

Fernow, Berthold

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150095164
ISBN13: 9781150095160
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.15 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1890 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. North And West Of The Ohio River. The first white man to erect a dwelling in Ohio was the Moravian missionary, Christian Frederic Post, known to be a sagacious and able man, who had great influence among the Indians; he was sent in 1751 and 1758 by the Governor of Pennsylvania on a mission to the Delawares, Shawanoes and Mingoes living then on the Ohio and its northern tributaries, a territory which, after its acquisition by the treaty of Paris, was declared Crown land by King George's proclamation of October 7, 1763. This proclamation forbade the King's loving subjects to make purchases of land from the Indians or to form settlements westward of the sources of the rivers which fall into the sea from the West and North-West. The royal proclamation gave as reason for this policy, that it was necessary to convince the Indians of English justice by preventing irregularities, and it may be that in 1763, this was thought to be a good and sufficient reason. Royal proclamations and orders had, however, little weight with the settler and the hunter, who lived principally by the products of the chase, and who, by penetrating into the tabooed regions, had helped to bring on the Indian war of 1764. This war had put a stop to the enterprises of the Ohio and the other land companies which were now revived under a plan to buy out the French settlers in the Illinois country. But the scheme proved infeasible and the earlier projects were all merged into Walpole's Grant, later called the Colony of Vandalia. The Lords Commissioners for Trade and plantations were opposed to this scheme, fathered by Thomas Walpole, and reported against it.f A recent writer on this pointj says: Such in clear and specific terms was the cold and selfish policy, which the Brit...

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