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Clubs 504
Commercial Club 574
Electric Plant
540
Enumeration 355
Connersville, Con .-
Favorite Meeting Place for In-
dians
115
Fifth Street Bridge, Strife 626
Fire Department 533
Furniture Industry 553
Gas Plant
539
Hawkins Playground 378
High School Graduates
374
In 1833
525
In 1861
528
Industries, Early 128, 549
Industries, Present 544
Landmarks, Old 580
Library, First
522
Library History 570
Lighting Service 538
Location
517
Lodges
482
499
Made County Seat 161
Military Station 138
Mills
549
Newspapers 465
521
Notable Men 523
Officials, City 532
Original Plat 126
Paving
541
Physicians
336
Plat, Original
517
Police Department 542
Population 183, 184
Population, 1867 531
Postoffice
569
Public Utilities
533
Railroads
280
Roots Interests
566, 575, 581
School Buildings 375
Schools
371, 568
Sewerage System
541
Situation
571
Store, the First
519
Streets, Renaming
531
Superintendents, School
Tavern Licenses
520
521
Teachers 383
Telephone 543
Town Hall 532
War Times
301
Water Power
279
Waterworks
536
Woolen Mills
552
380
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Connersville Township- -
Area
222
Boundaries
222
Churches
410, 421
Creation of
158
Enumeration
353, 358
228
Industries, Early
222
Land Entries
71
Lime
Mills
228
Officials, First
158
Population
183
Schools .
227, 355
Settlement
223, 325
Soil
75
Streams
69,
70
Teachers
368
Constitutional Convention Vote. 623
Constitution of Indiana, Changes in 56
Conwell, Abram B. 593
Corn Fair
626
Coroners
186,
204
Counties, Organization
of
54
Counties, Territorial 43
County Finances, 1820. 162
County Finances, 1916
164
County Government
158
County Medical Society
339
County Officials
186
County Organization
155
County School Superintendents 354
County Seat Located
161
County Seminary
368
Court History
326
Court House History
168
D
Daughters of Isabelle
502
Daughters of Rebekah 491
Daughters of the American Revo- lution 319
Deed, First Recorded. 168
Deed Recorded, First 625
Disciples Churches
421
Division of 1800, Territorial
41
Doctors
334
Donation Fund
161
Drafts During Civil War
313
Drift Formations
70
E
Eagles, Fraternal Order of.
494
East Connersville-
Churches
403
Enumeration
355
Industries
229
Location
229
Population
184
Schools
358
Teachers
368
Eastern Star, Order of the
488
Editors of Other Days 474
Educational History 351
Educational System of State 66
Electric Lines
282
Elephant Hill, Origin of Name 134
Elks, Order of
495
Elmhurst School for Girls
384
Enlistments from Fayette County 304
Enumeration Statistics
355
Episcopal Church
445
Evangelical Lutheran Church 440
Everton-
Business Interests 249
Churches
400, 409,
442
Incorporation
248
Location
248
Lodges
492
Merchants, First 248
Name, Changes in 248
Physicians, Early
338
Population
183
Postoffice
249
F
Fairview
233, 489, 497
Fairview Township-
Boundaries
229
Creation of 229
Enumeration
355
Industries, Early
232
Land Entries
2.29
Population
183
Schools
232, 364
Settlement
231
Soil
75
Teachers
368
Fallen Timbers, Battle of_
.34.
41
Falmouth
233, 234, 400, 497
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Farm Prices, Early 285
Farming Conditions, Early
284
History of Indiana
33
Fayette County Created.
155
Fayette County, First Limits of.
156
Fayette County Seminary.
368
Fayette Sanitarium Association
179
Fifth Street Bridge, Strife Over.
626
Finances, Early County.
159
First Surveys of State.
39
Fraternal Order of Eagles 494
Fraternal Orders
482
Free Public Schools
353
Freemasonry
482
French and Indian War.
35
French Settlements in the West
34
French Traders
122
G
Geology of Fayette County
69
German Baptists
418
German Family, the First 624
German Presbyterians
437
Glenwood
184, 260, 261, 400, 443
Glimpses of Fayette County.
597
Governors of Indiana
63
Grand Army of the Republic
320
H
Hackleman, Mrs. Nancy H
617
Harrison Township-
Boundaries
234
Clubs
516
Creation of
158
Enumeration
355
Industries, Early
237
Land Entries
234
Mills
237
Officials, First 158
Population
183
Schools
239,
366
Settlement
236
Soi
75
Stone Quarries
70
Teachers
368
Harrisburg
240, 338, 429, 433
Harrison, William Henry.
80, 82,
87
Hawkins
240
Hawkins Playground
378
Haymakers Association
498
Heinemann's Researches
76
I
Improved Order of Red Men
496
Independence Day, 1831
612
Independent Order of Odd Fellows_ 490
Industries, Early
612
Indian Affairs, A Crisis in 131 137
Indian Camp, Old
135
Indian Farming Efforts
119
Indian Lands
56
Indian Struggles, 1787-1803
41
Indian Trail Down the White Water Valley 104, 106, 132, 135, 140, 273
Indian Treaties
78
Indian Tribes
80
Indiana, History of
33
Indiana in 1800 (map) 44
Indiana in 1801 (map) 48
Indiana in 1805 (map)
50
Indiana in 1809 (map)
53
Indiana in 1815 (map)
57
Indiana in 1818 (map)
55
Indiana's Natural Resources.
66
Indians Resist White Encroachment,
33
Infirmary Farm
176
J
Jackson Township
Boundaries
242
Churches
407, 411, 439, 442, 444
Creation of
158
Enumeration
355
Industries, Early
246
Land Entries
243
Mills
246
Population 183
Schools
247, 361
Settlement
244
Soil
71,
75
Streams
70
Teachers
368
Jail History
172
Jennings Township-
Boundaries
250
Enumeration
355
Home for Dependent Children 177
Horseless Vehicle, First
625
Hospitals
177
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Jennings Township, Con .-
Industries, Early 253
Land Entries 250
Mills
253
Name
249
Officials, First
158
Population
183
Schools
253, 359
Settlement
251
Soil
75
Streams
69
Teachers
368
Journal of Proceedings of
the
Treaty of Ft. Wayne, 1809.
87
Justices of the Peace
186
K
Knights of Columbus
502
Knights of Pythias 492
Knights Templar
487
L
Landmarks, Ancient
121
Lawyers of the County
323
Lincoln, President, Assassination of, 316
Literary Clubs
504
Litterateurs of the County
386
Lodges
482
Longwood
228, 229, 443
Loyal Order of Moose
494
Lutheran Churches
449
Lyonsville
255, 419, 440
Mc
McCarty, Jonathan ____ 161, 187, 189,
198, 200, 212, 523, 588
McCormick, John
602
McIntosh, James C.
591
M
Map of Fayette County, First
626
Margaret Thiebaud Scholarship
379
Marriage License, the First
168, 625
Masonic Order
482
Medical History
334
Medical Society
339
Meeker, Minor
590
Memorial Hospital
177
Men of a Past Generation 583
Methodist Episcopal Churches 399
Mexican War
300
Michener, Louis T. 596
Military History of County 298
Military History of State 60
Military Notes
317
Military Organizations
318
Modern Woodmen of America
501
Moose, Loyal Order of
494
Morgan's Raid
61, 311
Musical Clubs
504
Musical Congress
626
Muster Day
299
Mystic Shrine
489
N
Natural Drainage
69
Naturalization Records
184
Naval Notes
317
Newspaper History
465
Northwest Territory, First White
Men in
33
Northwest Territory Organized
42
Nulltown
220
O
Odd Fellows, Independent Order of 400
Official Roster of County
186
Orange
260, 400, 406, 429, 433, 497
Orange Township-
Boundaries
256
Churches
410, 431, 436, 440
Enumeration
355
Industries, Early
259
Land Entries
256
Name
256
Orchards
260
Physicians, Early
338
Population
183
Schools
259, 360
Settlement
258
Soil
75
Streams
70
Teachers
368
Order of the Eastern Star
488
Ordinance of 1787
39
HISTORICAL INDEX.
P
Parker, Samuel W.
587
Patriotic Order of the Sons of
America
503
Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene
447
Physicians
334
Pioneer, Our Original.
86
Pioneer Days
606
Pioneer Farm Implements
286
Pocahontas, Degree of
498
Poetry by Fayette County Writers_ 390
Poets of Fayette County
388
Political History of State
62
Pontiac's Conspiracy
36
Population of County
182
Population of the State
65
Posey Township-
Boundaries
261
Churches
410
Enumeration
355
First Events
265
Land Entries
262
Name
261
Poll-book of 1826
264
Population
183
Schools
265, 363
Settlement
263
Soil
65
Streams
69
Presbyterian Churches
434
Press of Fayette County 465
Primitive Baptist Church
420
Probate Judges
328
Prosecuting Attorneys
332
Pythian Sisters
493
Q
Quebec Act
36
R
Railroads
280
Rea, Col. James C. 592
Rebekah, Daughters of
491
Recorders
186, 200
Red Men, Improved Order of
496
Redtown
241
Redville
241
Related State History
33
Relics of Fayette County
615
Religious Life 398
Reminiscences
604
Representative Government 42
Representatives
209
Revolutionary Period 36
Rival Claims to Northwest 34
Road, First Attempt to Make 119
Roads, The First
273
Roberts Park
627
Roots, Francis M.
594
Roots Interests
566,
581
Royal and Select Masters
486
Royal Arch Masons
485
Royal Neighbors
501
Rural Free Delivery, Origin of 620
S
St. Clair, Gen. Arthur
41, 42,
45
Sains Creek
433
Sanitarium Association
179
Savings and Loan Associations
349
Saw-mill, Conner's
127
School Enumeration
355
School House, An Early
352
School Superintendents, County 354
Schools
351
Scottish Rite
489
Secret Societies
482
Seminary, County
368
Senators, State
209
Settlements in Indiana Territory,
1800
46
Seventh-Day Adventists
443
Sheriff's Residence
173
Sheriffs
186, 203
Shipley, Lieut. Samuel J.
595
Singing School, an Old
610
Slavery, Efforts to Establish, in
Indiana
52
Smith, Caleb B.
212, 323, 482,
484, 523, 525, 585
Smith, Oliver H. _ 109, 110, 144, 148,
212, 284, 323, 332,
336, 386, 482, 519,
523, 526, 584, 597
Social Clubs
504
Soils
71
Soldiers from Fayette County
304
Sons of Veterans
321
Spanish-American War
62, 316
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Springersville
272, 431, 433
State Roads
273
Streams
69
Stumptown
241
Surplus Revenue Fund, Loaning of.
621
Surveyors, County
201
T
Tavern Rates, Early
159
Tax Assessment, 1831
163
Tax Assessment, 1861
164
Tax Assessments, Early
160
Territorial General Assemblies
51
Territorial Government
47.
49
Territorial Legislature, First
43
Toll Roads
274
Township History
214
Townships, First
158
Transportation
273
Treasurers, County
199
Treaties with the Indians
78
Twelve Mile Purchase
77,
87
U
Union Evangelical Church
441
United Brethren Church 439
Universalist Church
442
V
Vincennes, Capture of
37
Vincennes,
Oldest
Settlement
in
Indiana
38
w.
War Relief and Bounties
314
Water Power from Canal
279
Waterloo
270, 338,
439
Waterloo Township ----
Boundaries
266
Churches
405
Creation of
266
Enumeration
355
Land Entries
267
Population
183
Schools
269,
358
Settlement
268
Soil
75
Streams
70
Teachers
368
Voters in 1825
269
WVawassa Paper-mill
613
White Water Canal
276, 527
White Water Country, Topography of 114
White Water River
69
White Water Valley, Natural Ad-
vantages of
108
Wick, William Watson
588
Will Recorded, First
168.
625
Writers of Fayette County
388
Z
Zeisberger, David, Diary of
149
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
A
Adams, Alanson
940
Ansted, Edward W. 672
Ansted, Frank B. 715
Archey, Charles M.
1051
B
Baker, David
995
Barker, Virgil J.
738
Barrows, Alvin E.
1056
Barrows, Frederic I.
1096
Basse, William C.
865
Beaver, Hugh E.
1090
Beaver, John M.
1087
Beaver, Raymond S.
772
Beckett, Azariah T.
948
Beeson, Charles
968
Bell, Andrew M.
917
Bilby, Morton L.
773
Bilby, Palmer T.
951
Blevins, John T.
796
Booher, Irvin E., M. D.
848
Bowen, Gus
842
Bowen, Ralph W.
844
Bower, L. T.
728
Brown, William
853
Brown, William C.
846
Buckley, Michael C.
683
Burger, John J.
835
Byrne, John L.
1011
C
Cain, William J.
687
Caldwell, Cleve T. 1068
Caldwell, Daniel W.
1089
Caldwell, Scott E.
1060
Carr, Clarence G.
991
Carson, William A.
863
Chrisman, Albert L.
755
Chrisman, Jesse S.
726
Clark, John S.
905
Claypool, Austin B. 1033
Claypool, Jefferson H.
644
Clifton, James A.
663
Cokefair, Lafe
1078
Cole, Benjamin W.
692
Cole, Joseph J.
920
Collyer, Alfred
791
Collyer, Fred P.
823
Connor, John, Descendants of
1002
Cook, James F.
874
Cooper, B. W., M. D.
1145
Cressler, Miss Isabel B.
694
Culbertson, John M.
896
Cummins, Frank
994
Cummins, Millard F.
840
Cummins, Murl D.
1010
Cummins, Noah
793
D
De Vaney, William H.
856
Doenges, Fred
815
Doenges, John L. 1148
Doenges, Henry P.
1137
Doenges, Simon
701
Doniker, Omer
1128
Downs, Capt. Thomas
688
E
Earl, Morell J.
1038
Eddy, Burl
1134
Edwards, Clarence E.
953
Elliott, Hon. Richard N.
652
Enos, Edward A.
923
Erb, Maynard M.
907
F
Fearis, J. H.
681
Fiant, Oliver T.
1025
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Fisher, Fred W.
1127
Fisher, James T. 900
Fitzgerald, Thomas 786
Fletcher, A. J., M. D.
671
Florea, Joseph D.
1064
Fries, George M.
836
Frost, Hyatt L.
679
G
Gerber, Sam
1022
Goble, Albert E. 967
Goble, George W. 676
Green, George
895
Green, Levi N.
1012
Greenwood, Robert J.
864
Gregg, Vincent H., M. D.
696
.
H
Hackleman, Frank D. 650
Hackleman, John W. 788
Hadley, Willard 1029
Hahn, Erwin H.
767
Halladay, Warden
764
Hamilton, James M.
1150
Hanson, Frank M.
886
Harlan, James M.
909
Harry, William T.
925
Hawkins, Edward P.
1104
Hawkins, Edward V.
912
Heinemann, George
784
Helvie, A. P., D. V. S.
1144
Hendrickson, William
698
Henry, Jesse O. 1116
Heron, James 636
Heron, James M. 753
Higgs, John M.
664
Himelick, E. Ralph 720
Hinchman, Marshall, Jr. 782
Hinchman, Ulysses G. 928
Holland, James F.
1039
Holter, Josephns W. 935
Hull, Charles C. 832
Hussey, Elwood 1092
Huston, Emery 1120
Huston, James
723
Huston, Joseph E.
1112
J
Johnson, J. H., M. D.
700
Johnston, Edgar D.
942
Johnston, G. Edwin
667
Jones, William T.
1042
K
Kennedy, Jasper L.
743
Kensler, Preston H.
760
King, William H.
757
Kline, Leonidas A.
1020
L
Lake, Ellis R.
960
Lake, Franklin Z.
955
Lake, George W.
982
Lake, Willis R.
1114
Leffingwell, Minor E.
741
Leonard, George C.
776
Lewis, Hayden
975
Little, Melancthon R.
849
Little, Thomas M.
800
Lockhart, John
707
Loudenback, William H.
876
Ludlow, Henry L.
867
Ludlow, James
1016
Ludlow, John
888
Lyons, Abram
1118
Mc
McBurney, Thomas C.
933
McConnell, William H.
871
McFarlan, Charles E. J. 712
McFarlan, John B.
1008
McFarlan, John B., Jr.
706
McIntosh, James M.
963
McKee, David W.
669
McKennan, Roy C. 735
McKennan, Samuel O.
748
McMullen, Richard A. S.
1142
M
Manlove, George E.
816
Martin, Charles W. 898
Mason, Charles W. 989
Mason, Hon. James K.
985
Massey, J. O.
763
Maurer, Ernest A. 1075
Maurer, Henry
1063
Maze, William
1024
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
MenMuir, Charles 756
Merrifield, Samuel S. 734
Mesker, Rev. Theodore S.
673
Messersmith, George D.
1138
Michener, Edgar M.
661
Moffett, Joseph E.
829
Moffett, Miles K.
745
Moffett, Otho O.
1046
Moffett, Samuel C.
1044
Moneyhon, Charles
750
Montgomery, Franklin P.
877
Moore, Joseph A.
1140
Moore, Lafayette
984
Mount, James
659
Mountain, Joseph R., M. D.
736
Moyer, William H.
739
Munger, Warren H.
997
Murphy, Elmer E.
826
Murray, Warren B.
1081
Myers, Oliver P.
1105
N
Naylor, John C.
811
Neal, Frederick C. 747
Newkirk, William
731
Newland, Charlie
806
O
Oldham, George E.
892
Osborne, H. S., M. D.
828
P
Perkins, Fred B.
1097
Peters, John J. 759
Phillips, William R., M. D. 809
Porter, Clarence E.
766
Porter, William R.
819
Post, Samuel M.
891
Powell, Gabriel G. 1131
Powell, John G.
730
Prifogle, George W.
838
Pyke, Howell G.
1052
R
Rees, Hiram E. 710
Reichle, John W. 719
Rich, A. E.
831
Riggs, James S.
880
Rickert, Edward I ..
381
Robinson, Willard 1123
Roots, Daniel T. 640
Roots, Francis M. 633
Ross, Major John W.
649
Rowe, Richard H.
1110
S
Saxon, Walter S.
869
Schoenholtz, Frederick
685
Schoenholtz, Adam
733
Scott, James W.
957
Scott, John M.
976
Scott, William W.
944
Sherry, William H.
768
Shipley, Hiram
1054
Shipley, Lieut. Samuel J.
656
Shortridge, Sanford
1047
Silvey, Henry T.
717
Simpkins, Absalom
1032
Sipe, Richard W., M. D.
813
Smelser, H. W., M. D.
752
Smith, B. R., M. D. 695
Smith, Carl C.
1109
Smith, Harry H. 821
Springer, Hon. Raymond S.
879
Stevens, Elmer E.
858
Stoll, John
722
Stone, Edwin M. 1099
Strong, John A.
1018
Sumner, Miss Caroline L.
792
Sutcliffe, Joseph M.
1014
Sweetland. Dr. A. T., D. C.
703
T
Tate, Curtis L. 1158
Tate, James H. (First) 1146
Tate, James H. (Second) 1157
Tate, William H.
1091
Tatman, Edwin W. 480
Thiebaud, B. F.
824
Thomas, Scott
655
Thompson, William H.
1302
Thrasher, Jolın P.
778
Tingley, Lincoln K.
725
Trusler, Prof. Claude L. 704
Trusler, D. E.
481
Trusler, Edmund B. 903
Trusler, Hon. Milton
641
Trusler, Milton H.
647
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
W
Williams, John J. 914
Wainwright, William W. 938
Weaver, Harry E. 979
Weaver, Philip F. 971
Wetherald, Edgar K.
770
White, John M.
803
White, John T.
884
Y
Whiteis, J. N., D. O. 751
Young, Amon
851
Wiles, Joseph B.
798
Williams, Charles R.
1152
Williams, George M.
1085
Zell, Glen
686
Williams, John N. 918
Wise, David L. 1067
Worsham, Franklin M. 1121
Worster, Thomas W. 1072
Z
HISTORICAL
CHAPTER I.
A SHORT HISTORY OF INDIANA.
The first white men to set foot upon the Northwest Territory were French traders and missionaries under the leadership of La Salle. This was about the year 1670 and subsequent discoveries and explorations in this region by the French gave that nation practically undisputed possession of all the territory organized in 1787 as the Northwest Territory. It is true that the English colonies of Virginia, Connecticut and Massachusetts claimed that their charters extended their grants westward to the Mississippi river. However, France claimed this territory and successfully maintained posses- sion of it until the close of the French and Indian War in 1763. At that time the treaty of Paris transferred all of the French claims east of the Mississippi river to England, as well as all claims of France to territory on the mainland of North America. For the next twenty years the Northwest Territory was under the undisputed control of England, but became a part of the United States by the treaty which terminated the Revolutionary War in 1783. Thus the flags of three nations have floated over the territory now comprehended within the present state of Indiana-the tri-color of France, the union jack of England and the stars and stripes of the United States.
History will record the fact that there was another nation, however, which claimed possession of this territory and, while the Indians can hardly be called a nation, yet they made a gallant fight to retain their hunting grounds. The real owners of this territory struggled against heavy odds to maintain their supremacy and it was not until the battle of Tippecanoe, in the fall of 1811, that the Indians gave up the unequal struggle. Tecumseh, the Washington of his race, fought fiercely to save this territory for his people, but the white man finally overwhelmed him, and "Lo, the poor Indian" was pushed westward across the Mississippi. The history of the Northwest Territory is full of the bitter fights which the Indians waged in trying to drive
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the white man out and the defeat which the Indians inflicted on General St. Clair on November 4, 1792, will go down in the annals of American history as the worst defeat which an American army ever suffered at the hands of the Indians. The greatest battle which has ever been fought in the United States against the Indians occurred in the state of Ohio. This was the battle of Fallen Timbers and occurred August 20, 1794, the scene of the battle being within the present county of Defiance. After the close of the Revolutionary War the Indians, urged on by the British, caused the settlers in the Northwest Territory continual trouble and defeated every de- tachment sent against them previous to their defeat by Gen. Anthony Wayne at the battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. Although there was some trouble with the Indians after this time, they did not offer serious resistance after this memorable defeat until the fall of 1811, when Gen. William Henry Har- rison completely routed them at the battle of Tippecanoe.
TERRITORY NORTHWEST OF THE OHIO ( 1670-1754).
Ohio was the first state created out of the old Northwest Territory, although Indiana had been previously organized as a territory. When the land comprehended within the Northwest Territory was discovered by the French under La Salle about 1670, it was a battle ground of various Indian tribes, although the Eries, who were located along the shores of Lake Erie. were the only ones with a more or less definite territory. From 1670 to 1763, the close of the French and Indian War, the French were in possession of this territory and established their claims in a positive manner by exten- sive exploration and scattered settlements. The chief centers of French settlement were at Detroit, Vincennes, Kaskaskia, Cahokia, Fort Crevecour and at several missionary stations around the shores of the great lakes. The French did not succeed in establishing themselves without incurring the. hos- tility of the Iroquois Indians, a bitter enmity which was brought about chiefly because the French helped the Shawnees, Wyandots and Miamis to drive the Iroquois out of the territory west of the Muskingum river in Ohio.
It must not be forgotten that the English also laid claim to the North- west Territory, basing their claim on the discoveries of the Cabots and the subsequent charters of Virginia, Massachusetts and Connecticut. These charters extended the limits of these three colonies westward to the Pacific ocean, although, as a matter of fact, none of the three colonies made a settle- ment west of the Alleghanies until after the Revolutionary War. New York sought to strengthen her claim to territory west of the Alleghanies in 1701
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by getting from the Iroquois, the bitter enemies of the French, a grant to the territory from which the French and their Indian allies had previously ex- pelled them. Although this grant was renewed in 1726 and again confirmed in 1744, it gave New York only a nominal claim and one which was never recognized by the French in any way.
English traders from Pennsylvania and Virginia began in 1730 to pay more attention to the claims of their country west of the Alleghanies and north of the Ohio river. When their activities reached the ears of the French the governor of French Canada sent Celeron de Bienville up and down the Ohio and the rivers and streams running into it from the north and took formal possession of the territory by planting lead plates at the mouth of every river and stream of any importance. This peculiar method of the French in seeking to establish their claims occurred in the year 1749 and opened the eyes of England to the necessity of taking some immediate action. George II, the king of England at the time, at once granted a charter to the first Ohio Company (there were two others by the same name later organ- ized), composed of London merchants and enterprising Virginians, and the company at once proceeded to formulate plans to secure possession of the ter- ritory north of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi. Christopher Gist was sent down the Ohio river in 1750 to explore the country as far west as the mouth of the Scioto river, and made several treaties with the Indians. Things were now rapidly approaching a crisis and it was soon evident that there would be a struggle of arms between England and France for the disputed region. In 1754 the English started to build a fort at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, on the site of the present city of Pitts- burgh, but before the fort was completed the French appeared on the scene, drove the English away and finished the fort which had been begun.
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1754-63). 1139177
The crisis had finally come. The struggle which followed between the two nations ultimately resulted in the expulsion of the French from the mainland of America as well as from the immediate territory in dispute. The war is known in America as the French and Indian War and in the history of the world as the Seven Years' War, the latter designation being due to the fact that it lasted that length of time. The struggle developed into a world-wide conflict and the two nations fought over three continents, America, Europe and Asia. It is not within the province of this resume of the history of Indiana to go into the details of this memorable struggle. It is
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sufficient for the purpose at hand to state that the treaty of Paris, which terminated the war in 1763, left France without any of her former posses- sions on the mainland of America.
PONTIAC'S CONSPIRACY (1763-64).
With the English in control of America east of the Mississippi river and the French regime forever ended, the Indians next command the attention of the historian who deals with the Northwest Territory. The French were undoubtedly responsible for stirring up their former Indian allies and Pontiac's conspiracy must be credited to the influence of that nation. This formidable uprising was successfully overthrown by Henry Bouquet, who led an expedition in 1764 into the present state of Ohio and compelled the Wyandots, Delawares and Shawnees to sue for peace.
NORTHWEST TERRITORY AND QUEBEC ACT.
From 1764 to 1774, no events of particular importance occurred within the territory north of the Ohio river, but in the latter year (June 22, 1774), England, then at the breaking point with the colonies, passed the Quebec act, which attached this territory to the province of Quebec for administrative purposes. This intensified the feeling of resentment which the colonies bore against their mother country and is given specific mention in their list of grievances which they enumerated in their Declaration of Independence. The Revolutionary War came on at once and this act, of course, was never put into execution.
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