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Fort Ligonier, 139.
Fort MeIntosh, built, 125 ; repaired, 268; view, 269.
Fort Massac, 25, 562.
Fort Miami, 38, 455. Fort Moukrie, attacked, 97.
Fort Nelson, 194.
Fort Niagara, view, 449.
Fort Quiatanon. 38.
Fort Pammure (Natchez), 162, 189.
Fort Plaquemines, 551.
Fort Pitt, Indians meet Croghan at. 13; Crawford in command, 116; critical situation under Brodhead. 192.
Fort Randolph, 112, 115, 132 ; aban- doned, 139.
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Fort Recovery, 455.
Fort Rosalie, 162.
Fort Rutledge, 94.
Fort Sackville. 134.
Fort St. Joseph. 39.
Fort Schuyler, 251.
Fort Stanwix, 268; treaty (1768), 15, 96, 268; map of the property line, 15 ; site, 19.
Fort Stephen, 521.
Fort Tombighee, 38.
Fort Washington (Cincinnati), built, 316. Fort Wayne, 460.
Fox. C. J., assails the treaty (1782), 209; coalition with North, 224.
Foxes (the Indian tribe), 113, 120.
France, and a greater France, 1 ; hatred of England, 107; alliance with the United States, 118; plots to lure the Americans to a collapse, 146 ; treaty of alliance with, 153; her navy, 158; to conenr in any peace movements, 159; treaty with Spain (1779), 160; not enti- tled to American gratitude, 165 ; abet- ting Spain on the Mississippi question, 183; intrigues on the Mississippi, 372; her supposed desire for the Mississippi valley, 569 ; threatening war, 570, Frankfort (Ky.), site, 57, 356.
Franklin, Benjamin, warns the English government, 7; in London, 14; bis barrier colonies, 22 ; favors an Illinois colony, 38 ; opposes Hillsborough, 41; the Walpole Company, 47 ; on canaliz- ing rivers, 52 ; his answer to Hillsbor- ough, 55; disputes Virginia's western claims, 55 ; on western lawlessness, 56 ; urges repeal of the Quebec .Bill, 76; the head of the Committee of Secret Correspondence. 145 ; sent to Europe, 150; influence in Paris. 151 ; hears of Burgoyne's surrender, 152; sole com- ,missioner, 158 ; diseredits the Vir- ginia Charter claims, 167 ; drafts Act of Confederation, 167; deceived by Vergennes, 184; his character, 208 ; his action on the treaty (1782), 208; distrusts loyalists, 217 ; could he have secured Canada to the United States at the peace (1782) ? 217; relations with Hartley, 222; fears a renewal of the war, 227 ; thinks the evils follow- ing the war unduly magnified, 228; Sending Felons to America, 230 ; on the British debts, 230; and the loyalists, 212; offers gratuity to Fitch, 324; re- turns from Europe, 342.
Franklin, State of, beginnings of, 341, 342 ; Frankland, an alternative name, 343 ; unrest in, 350; the collapse, 354. Franklin, William, governor of New Jersey, 7, 15; favors an Illinois col- ony, 38.
Fraser, Lieutenant, 28.
French, the, their intrigue with the In- dians, S; contrasted with the English in relations with the Indians, 8; rivals of the English in trade with the In- dians. 23.
French Lick, 143.
Frenean, National Gazette, 408.
Frobisher, 220, 235.
Frontier settlements, 20.
Fulton, Robert, 6, 512 ; and the " Cler- mont," 325.
Fur trade, the, in Canada suffers from the treaty (1782), 220 ; interfered with by Americans, 235 ; in London, 237; on the lakes, 240; and the lake posts, 416; in the West, 467.
Fur traders on the Mississippi, 29.
Gage, General, and the Canadians, 5, 25 ; and the western fur trade, 28 ; the Illinois colony, 38; retires, 60; and the French on the Wabash, 70; in Boston, 86; wishing to seize New Orleans, 108.
Galiano and Valdéz, 536.
Gallatin, Albert, 451 ; his western lands, 256; supposed complicity with Adet, 561.
Gallipolis, 404, 436: position of, 290; a " wretched abode," 498, 538. Galphinton, 343.
Galvez, Bernardo de, at Natchez, 142 ; at New Orleans, 149 ; issnes proclama- tion, 157 ; attacks the English posts, 162; extends Louisiana, 163; attacks Mobile, 181 ; takes Pensacola, 189; his portrait given to Congress, 222.
Gardoqui, Diego de, confronts Jay on the Mississippi question, 183; arrives in America, 318; relations with Fitch, 324; arrives in Philadelphia, 337; in- triguing at the West, 353; and Miró, 356; seeks to implicate Sevier, 360.
Gates, General, defeated at Camden, 181. Gautier, marauding, 130.
Gayoso, his deportment, 518; intriguing in Kentucky, 553; governor of Lonisi- ana, 567; orders evacuation of Natchez, 573.
Genesee country, 528; rights of Massa- chusetts in, 264; map, 499.
Genet, his democratic clubs, 453 ; arrives in America, 532 : would indnce a war with England and Spain, 538 ; deposed, 541.
George, Lientenant, 157.
Georgia, Indian cessions in, 9; disputes with the federal government, 376; map, 377.
Georgia company, 377.
Gérard. at Philadelphia, 155; to prepare Congress to yield to Spanish wishes, 155; urges on Congress the propriety of the Spanish demands, 159.
Germain, instructs Hamilton to make raids, 111 ; favors maranding parties, 126; his plan for a campaign on the Mississippi, 142; his plan to maintain line of communications between Can- ada and Florida, 171.
Germans, in Kentucky, 529.
Gerry, Elbridge, 269. Gibault, 120.
Gibraltar, to be acquired by Spain, 159.
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Gibson, Captain George, 147.
Gibson, Colonel John, 124; at Fort Lan- rens, 125, 138; goes West with his regi- ment, 191 ; succeeds Brodhead at Fort Pitt, 195.
Girty, George, 194.
Girty, Simon, 72, 85, 271 ; suspected, 114 ; turns traitor, 128 ; leading Indians, 138; among the Wyandots, 192; his temper at the close of the war, 237; and Harmar's campaign, 421 ; at the Miami Council, 443, 450; after Wayne's victory, 460; leaves Detroit, 483.
Girtys, the, raiding, 175.
Gnadenhütten, broken up, 195.
Gooch, governor of Virginia, 166.
Gordon, Captain Harry, 25.
Gordon, Colonel George, on the Ohio country, 13; at Fort Pitt, 149.
Gordon, Dr. William, 464.
Gordon, Rev. William, 72.
Grafton, Duke of, 11.
Grand Portage, 220, 239.
Granthanı, Lord, at Madrid, 160.
Gratiot, Charles, 130, 171.
Grayson, 261, 262; on the Mississippi question, 319.
Greenbrier River, 11.
Green River, 49.
Greene, Nathanael, in the South, 181, 188.
Greenville camp, 452.
Grenville, Lord, on the retention of Can- ada, 217; and Jay, 464, 476.
Grimaldi, recommends grant of money to the Americans, 147; retires, 151.
Guadalonpe, 4.
Guthrie, Geography, 468.
Haceta. 238.
Haldimand, General, nrges settlements in the Mississippi, 28; in Pensacola, 31; views, 40; succeeds Gage, 60; dis- turbed by Dunmore's acts, 65 ; and the French on the Wabash, 70; watching New Orleans, 108 ; does not approve Hamilton's advance on Vincennes, 126; relieved in marauding, 128 ; his anxie- ties, 138; reinforces Detroit, 141; in- structed to attack New Orleans, 161; canalizes the St. Lawrence, 170; to aid Sinclair's movements, 171 ; urging raids, 193; inactive (1782), 203; en- deavors to make good the Quebec Bill, 216; refuses to surrender posts, 235; rebuked by his government, 241 : fears an Indian war, 245; and the disaf- fected Iroquois, 271.
Hall, Colonel, sent to demand the posts. 235.
Hall, James, Sketches, 83. Hall, Lieutenant, 70.
Hamilton, Alexander, on western lands as a source of revenue, 187; fearful of the dangers after the peace (1782), 228; Observations on Jay's Treaty, 229; on the carrying off of slaves by the Brit- ish, 231 ; on the western Indians, 243; supposed to favor monarchy, 277; on
a moneyed aristocracy, 290; and the western lands, 407, 504; his opposi- tion to Jefferson, 408; advocates the Jay treaty, 478.
Hamilton, Colonel Henry, at Detroit, 87 ; intriguing with the Indians, 90, 111; organizing raids, 111; his proclama- tion, 112; his plans (1777), 112; con- trols the Ohio valley, 112; would or- ganize chasseurs at Vincennes, 112; would attack New Orleans, 113; at- tacks Vincennes, 126; his employment of Indians, 127; in charge of the war on the upper lakes, 127; at Detroit, 127 ; suspicions, 128; sends parties to the Ohio, 128 ; hears of Clark's suc- cess, 129; sends messenger to Stuart, 129, 131 ; his large plans, 129 ; calls on De Peyster for aid, 130; takes Vin- cennes, 131; warns the Spanish com- mander at St. Louis, 131; his plans, 133; captured and sent to Virginia, 135 ; his official report, 133 ; on parole, 135.
Hamtramck, at Fort Harmar, 296; on the Wabash, 419, 441; occupies Fort Miami, 483.
Hand, General, at Pittsburg, 112; on the defensive, 114, 115; at Fort Pitt, 117 ; his " squaw campaign," 128.
Hardlabor (S. C.), 10.
Harmar, General, in command, 270; at Vincennes, 296; his campaign, 418.
Harper, Robert E., 570.
Harrison, Benjamin, governor of Vir- ginia, 251.
Harrison, Reuben, 156.
Harrison, William Henry, with Wayne, 457 ; secretary of the Northwest Ter- ritory, 573.
Harrod, James. 44, 331 ; lays out a town, 61; at Harrodsburg, 81, 82.
Harrodsburg, 328; attacked, 111; con- vention, 116.
Hart, Rev. John, 529.
Hartley, relations with Franklin, 222. 228.
Hay, Major, 131.
Heckewelder. 441; would restrain the Indians, 128 ; his maps, 255, 507.
Helm, Leonard. sent to Vincennes, 120; surrenders, 131 ; released by Clark. 134; left in command at Vincennes, 135.
Henderson, Colonel Richard, and his colony, 81 ; at Boonesborough, $3 ; his character, 84 ; opens land office. 97. Henry, Alexander, 24, 389.
Henry. Patrick, and western lands, 61 ; governor of Virginia, 114; seeks to open trade with New Orleans, 155 ; favors retaliation for the deportation of the blacks, 232; nrging amalgama- tion of races, 236 ; on the loyalists. 243 ; on Virginia water-ways, 248 ; and the western routes. 257; and western land grabbers, 270 ; on the Mississippi question, 319; and Fitch's steamboat, 324; his confidence in the confedera-
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tion, 351 ; disgusted with Jay's Mis- sissippi project, 354 ; his despondency, 386; refuses mission to Madrid, 548.
Henry, William, 321.
Hillsborough, Lord, first colonial secre- tary, 41; opposes the Walpole grant, 47 ; resigns, 57.
Ilockhoeking River, valley, 293.
lolland Land Company, 264.
Holston settlement, 112; treaty, 375.
Hopewell, treaty of, 343, 344.
Hloumas (La.), 109.
Houston, Samuel, and the Franklin con- stitution, 343.
Ilowe, General Robert, 272.
Ihudson River, in a route to the West, 248; canal to the lakes, 506.
Hudson's Bay, fur trade, 24.
Huntington, Countess of, 270.
Huntington, General Jedediah, 236, 244.
Hutchins, Colonel Anthony, seized by Willing, 156, 162, 189; in Blount's plot, 568.
Hutchins, Lieutenant, 70.
Hutchins, Thomas, Description of Vir- ginia, 13; his map, 13 ; Freneh trans- lation, 17; map of the American Bottom, 27; Topographical Descrip- tion, 251; Geographer of the United States, 266; dies, 267; and the Ohio Company, 282, 322 ; Fitch's map dedi- cated to him, 323.
Hutchinson, Thomas, 264.
Iberville River, 32; route from the Mis- sissippi, 108.
Illinois Company, 200, 364.
Illinois country, and the fur trade, 25; its tribes, 26; projected colony, 38; map, 29; favored by Shelburne, 40; colony opposed by the Board of Trade, 41 ; Clark's spies in, 117 ; conquered by the Americans, 120 ; made a county of Virginia, 122; the French inhabitants, 562.
Illinois Land Company, 69.
Illinois River, 30.
Imlay, George, Topographical Descrip- tion, map, 248, 249.
Indiana (colony), map of, 17 ; included in the Ohio Company grant, 47.
Indiana grant, 169 ; revived, 96 ; its char- arter, 166; interest of Tom Paine in, IS7; sustained, 206.
Indians, trade with, 7, 23, 25, 546; tron- bles with whites. 7 ; adverse interests, 8; French and English treatment of, 8; armed by traders, 21 ; in the Revo- lution, employed by both sides, 87; priority of use, 87, 126; number of warriors east of the Mississippi, 88; characterized in the Declaration of In- dependence, 91; as fighters, 175 ; ca- pricions, 195 ; to occupy a nontral ter- ritory between the United States and Spain, 212; irritated by the treaty (1782), 229, 235 ; ravaging (1783), 236; informed of the terms of the peace (1782), 237; their wars following the
peace (1782), 237; losses of life and property inflicted by, 243; fear en- croachments, 245; their land title, only extinguished by government, 268 ; insist on the Ohio line, 268 ; in council at Niagara, 274; cost of subduing them, 776; number of warriors, 302 ; responsibility of the English for their hostility, 308 ; diverse policies of Cou- gress and the States, 308 ; numbers in the South, 382, 546.
Innes, Henry, 362 ; in league with Sebas- tian, 556.
Innes, Judge, 243.
Irish, in the West, 84 ; in Kentucky, 529. Iron Banks, 174.
Iron Mountain, 77.
Iroquois, and Cherokees, 9; favor the English, 14 ; map of their country, 15; their numbers, 16; their allies, 16; rival pretensions to Kentucky, 16, 20, 78; Guy Johnson's map of their coun- try, 18, 19 ; encouraged by the French, 72; incensed at the treaty (1782), 217, 229; lands sold (1784), 268.
Irvine, General. William, 256 ; at Fort Pitt, 196; on the western Indians, 243.
Jack, Colonel, 92.
Jackson, Andrew, his wife, 179 ; goes to Tennessee, 360; in Congress, 544; in the Tennessee Convention, 559.
Jackson, General James, and the Yazoo frauds, 550; killed, 560.
Jacobin clubs, 532.
James River and Potomac Canal Com- pany, 254; Washington its President, 257.
James River route to the West, 232, 254.
Jay, John, on the Quebec Bill, 75; sent to Spain, 164 ; in Madrid, 182 ; worried, 201 ; delivers his instructions, 201 ; re- bukes the supineness of Congress, 202 ; his influence on the treaty (1782), 208 ; estimate of Vergennes, 223 ; apprehen- sive of the future, 226; charges the first infractions of the treaty (1782) on the Americans, 229 ; on Indian affairs, 272 ; on the monarchical fever, 278 ; on the Mississippi question, 318 ; hopeless, 320; treats with Gardogni, 338 ; aided by a committee, 347; chief justice, 415; named as envoy to England, 463 ; his instructions, 464 ; makes treaty, 466 ; passions aroused in America by the treaty, 477, 478; treaty ratified, . 480.
Jefferson, Thomas, would drive the In- dians beyond the Mississippi, 93; and the Transylvania Colony, 97 ; would attack Detroit, 190; ceases to be gov- ernor of Virginia, 193 ; Notes on Vir- ginia, 214 ; an infraction of the treaty (1782), 228; encourages Ledyard, 239; planning western States, 244; on the bounds of Kentucky, 246; on the Po- tomac as a water-way, 248; on States at the West, 257 ; his ordinance (1784),
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258 ; its names of States, 258; plan for a survey of the western territory, 261 ; favors small States, 262; rectangular survey, 266 ; on the monarchical idea, 278; on Shays's Rebellion, 278; favors religious freedom, 288 ; on the Missis- sippi question, 319; his bounds of new States as set forth in the Ordinance of 1784, 322; his views of the West, 351 ; his opposition to Hamilton, 408 ; on the St. Clair campaign, 422 ; negoti- ations with Hammond, 431, 437, 441, 446; on the Presqu'Isle question, 436 ; and Ebeling, 478; argues the right of the United States to the Mississippi, 530; at variance with Hamilton, 530 ; resigns from the President's cabinet, 540.
Johnson, Gny, his map of the property line, 15 ; at Fort Stanwix, 15 ; map of Iroquois country, 18, 19; at Niagara, 177; would attack Fort Pitt, 203.
Johnson, Sir John, on the treaty (1782), 217 ; his later conduct, 237; and the western Indians, 245; in council at Niagara, 273 ; told by Lord Dorchester to qniet the Indians, 276.
Johnson, Sir William, and the Indians, 8; sends Croghan to England, S; and the property line, 14; at Fort Stanwix (1768), 15 ; on the Illinois country, 28; Dunmore's war, 68, 72; his home, 501
Johnston, Governor, 169; at Pensacola, 32.
Jones, Joseph, 185, 231.
Jones, Judge, Tory. 127, 242.
Jonesborough (Tenn.), 334; convention, 335.
Jnan de la Fuca, Straits of, 238. Juniata River, as a route to the West, 250.
Kalm, 4.
Kanawha River, Indian bonndary, 10, 14; its mouth the site of a proposed capital, 58; navigableness, 252.
Kaskaskia, 25; captured, 119. Kelley, Walter, 66.
Kennedy, Patrick, 70.
Kenton, Simon, 61, 72.
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Kentucky, destitute of Indians, 16 ; given over to occupation by the Fort Stanwix treaty, 17; events (1767-1774), 43; country described, 58, 99, 323 ; relieved by the victory at Point Pleasant, 81; set up as a county of Virginia, 98, 116; population, 111, 178, 320, 331, 399, 526; raided, 111; disturbed condition, 116 ; great immigration, 136, 170, 178, 270, 304, 328, 372, 526 ; new roads opened, 136; Bird's raid, 175; salt springs, 178; connties, 178, 328; conditions of life. 179 ; seeking Statehood, 243 ; Imlay's map, 249; scrambles for land, 261; sends force across the Ohio, 275 ; law- less attacks on the Indians, 305, 306; Spanish intrigues, 309 ; the movement for antonomy, 330; Filson's map, 332 ;
movements toward separation from Virginia, 340; delays, 355, 357; com- mittee on making a State, 361 ; British intrigue in, 394, 542 ; antipathy to In- dians, 421 ; volunteers under Wayne, 451; admitted to the Union, 515; framing a constitution, 523 ; map, 524, 525 ; Barker's map, 527; Toulmin's map, 528; her soil, 528; sympathy with the French faction, 540; Carondelet's intrigues; 530, 553, 557; intrigues of French agents, 562.
Kentucky Gazette, 357, 542. Kentucky River, 99.
Kickapoos, 26, 113; attacked, 422.
King, Rufus, and the ordinance (1784), 261 ; and the Phelps and Gorham pur- chase, 264; and the rectangular sur- veys, 267; on the Kentuckians, 274; on the cost of the Indian war, 276; on the ordinance (1787), 284, 285; on the Mississippi question, 318; opposes the admission of Tennessee, 559 ; in Lon- don, 571.
Kingsford, Dr. William, the Canadian historian, 71.
King's Mountain, fight, 178, 181.
Kirkland, missionary to the Indians, 87; and Brant, 434.
Kitchin, T., map of Pennsylvania, 54, 55; maps, 106.
Kittanning, 13, 18, 139 ; abandoned, 114.
Knox, General, demands the posts, 235; and Harmar's campaign, 418 ; plans a legionary system for the army, 434.
Knoxville, started, 358 ; founded, 518. Knoxville Gazette, 518.
La Balme, Colonel, to surprise Detroit, 177.
La Frenière, 37.
La Rochefoucault - Liancourt, Trarels, 508, 511.
Lafayette, his letter to the Canadians, 138 ; embarks for America, 151 ; would invade Canada, 159 ; goes back to France, 159 ; and the Mississippi ques- tion, 257, 319 ; on the Spanish question, 337.
Lafont, 120.
Lake Athabaska, 300.
Lake Chantanqna portage, 256.
Lake Michigan, map, 49.
Lake Nepigon, 220.
Lake Nipissing. 160, 218.
Lake of the Woods, 214-216, 221.
Lake Otsego, 251.
Lake Pontchartrain, 109.
Lake Superior, trade, 24, 235 ; filled with islands, 39. 106, 221; Carver at, 104; maps. 221 ; vessels on, 240.
Lake Winnipeg, 24, 104.
Lake Winnipiseogee, 263.
Lancaster. treaty of, 166. Lands, Indian titles, 268.
Lane, Isaac, 269.
Langlade, at St. Joseph, 130; to attack Kaskaskia, 173 : retreats, 174.
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Lansdowne, Lord, 277.
Le Ronge, Carte de l'Amérique, 501.
Ledyard. John, his career, 238.
Lee. Arthur. 210, 268, 269; in London, 145 : commissioner in Europe, 150 ; meets Grimaldi. 151.
Lee. General Charles, at Charleston, 92. Lee, Henry, of Virginia, 439; on the Mississippi question, 319.
Lee. Richard Henry, 210, 227, 229, 232 ; on the western country, 182; on the obligations of contract, 200; expects western lands to sink the national debt. 200.
Lee. William, 153, 237 ; in London, 75. Leech, John, 127.
Legge, Major, 60.
Lernoult, 128; at Detroit, 137.
Lexington (Ky.), named on hearing of the fight at Lexington, Mass., 85.
Lexington (Mass.), fight, 62.
Lewis, Andrew, 53; in the Dunmore war, 72; fight at Point Pleasant, 73.
Lewis, Samuel, map of the United States, 380, 381 ; Map of New York State, 474, 475.
Licking River, 99, 315.
Liebert, Philip, 273.
Limestone (now Maysville) (Ky.), 99, 315, 328, 510.
Lincoln, General Benjamin, secretary of war, 237 ; and the tendency to mou- archy, 278 ; to treat with the Indians, 447.
Linctot, Godefroy, 142.
Linn, Lieutenant, 147 ; ascends the Mis- sissippi with powder, 148.
Liston, British minister, 570.
Little Turtle, 420, 430, 456, 488.
Livingston, rebukes the peace commis- sioners, 210.
Lochry (Loughrey), Colonel Archibald, 194, 196.
Logan, Colonel Benjamin, 82 ; raiding with Clark, 176 ; and his militia, 331 ; raids upon the Wabash, 345.
Logan, John, the Indian, and the Dun- more war, 68 ; his famous speech, 74; raiding, 175.
Logan's Fort, attacked. 111.
Long. Voyages and Travels, 416.
Long Island, battle, 147.
Long Lake, 220.
Loring, Jonathan Austin, 152. Losantiville, 315.
Loskiel, United Brethren, 422.
Louis XV. (France), dies, 144.
Louis XVI. (France), accedes, 144 ; agrees to recognize American inde- pendence, 153, 531.
Louisiana, anxiety of the English to conquer it, 33 ; change of masters nn- der the secret treaty (1763), 33 ; under Spanish rule, 106; population, 371 ; its condition, 551; English project to seize it, 564; threatened on all sides, 570.
Louisville, 258, 317 ; laid out, 59 ; lands bought up, 100.
Loyalists, England hopes to settle them in the Ohio country, 217, 218 ; Frank- lin's distrust of them, 217; in the treaty (1782), 232, 242 ; confiscations, 233; American dislike of them, 233; recommendation of Congress, 234 ; their canse connected with the deten- tion of the posts, 241 ; hastening to Ontario, 241 ; exodus from the States, 242 ; Canadian homes planned for them, 242 ; at Cataraqui, 242; their mimbers in Canada, 242 ; United Em- pire Loyalists, 243.
Ludlow, Thomas, in the Miami country, 315.
Luzerne, reaches Boston, 164; seeks Washington, 164; delighted at Ameri- can degradation, 200; on the treaty (1782), 216.
Lyman, General Phineas, and settle- ments along the Mississippi, 28, 42; in West Florida, 110.
Lyttleton, Lord, 70.
Mackenzie, Alexander, western explo- rations, 536.
Mackenzie River, 239.
Mackinac post, 130; its trade, 130 ; anx- ieties at, 137, 142 ; De Peyster relieved by Sinclair, 142 ; as centre of fnr trade, 220, 235.
Madison, James, draws up the case of the United States for Spain, 184 ; on Virginia's land claims, 207; would set np Kentucky as a State, 207; on west- ern rontes, 251; on the Mississippi question, 256.
Madrid, Pinckney negotiating a treaty at, 554.
Mahoning River, 56.
Manchac, 156, 157 ; captured, 162.
Manchester (O.), 422.
Mandans, 468.
Marietta, position of, 291, 293, 297, 300, 301, 303 ; the surrounding country, 299 ; founded, 299; its community, 302; view, 305 ; origin of name, 305; Cam- pus Martius, 307.
Marshall, Chief Justice, on western land titles, 60.
Marshall, Colonel Thomas, approached by Lord Dorchester, 368.
Marshall, Humphrey, opposes Wilkin- son, 349.
Martin, Joseph, at Powell's Valley, 21. Martin's Station, 21, 82.
Maryland, and the sea-to-sea charters, 98; objects to paying Virginia for bonnty lands, 168; and would set western limits to seaboard States, 168; joins the confederation, 199.
Mason, George, on Virginia's western claims, 55 ; and the Transylvania Company, 98; sympathy for Ken- tucky, 116; and the Indiana grant, 166 ; on the Virginia cession, 185 ; on jeopardizing the peace (1782), 232; on the Virginia charter, 245; on the western States, 285 ; champion of reli-
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gion and education, 289 ; on the Mis- sissippi question, 319; suspicious of the North, 351.
Massachusetts, her sea-to-sea charter, 263 ; boundary dispute with New Hampshire, 263; with New York. 264; her western lands, 265; cedes them, 265 ; Shays's Rebellion, 278.
Massie, Nathaniel, 421.
Maumee River, 39; rapids of the, 455.
Maurepas, 144, 146, 154.
Mayflower, barge, 298, 299.
Maysville (Ky.), 99. See Limestone.
McAfee brothers, 57; at Harrodsburg, 81 ; on Salt River, 82.
Mc Donald, Major Angus, in the Dunmore war, 72.
McGillivray, Alexander, his plots, 329; his trading profits, 346 ; and the Span- ish aims, 352 ; attacks the Cumberland settlements, 359 ; relations with Miró, 371, 379 ; his treaty with Knox, 380, 385 ; his home, 383; as a leader, 384; in New York, 385; visited by John Pope, 519; dies, 520.
MeHenry, Secretary of War, 482.
MeIntosh, General Lachlan, succeeds
General Hand, 123; hopes to attack Detroit, 124; builds Fort McIntosh, 125 ; builds Fort Laurens, 125 ; relieved of command, 139.
McKee, Alexander, 271 ; suspected, 114 ; turns traitor, 128; leading Shawnees, 175 ; raiding, 194; in the Harmar cam- paign, 420.
MeLean, General, 237.
McMurray, William, 322.
Meigs, R. J., 302. Mercer, Colonel George, 47.
Miami country, 315.
Miamis, 16; in council, 442.
Michaux, André, a tool of Genet, 533, 537 ; sent west, 533; his revolutionary plans countenanced by Jefferson, 537 ; his journal, 537.
Michigan, plan to turn over its peninsula to England, 494.
Mifflin, Governor, and the whiskey ri- ots, 486.
Milhet, a New Orleans merchant, 34, 35. Milwaukee, founded, 240.
Mingo town, 13.
Mingoes, hostile, 124, 138 ; on the Scioto, 302.
Ministerial line, 11.
Minnesota River 104.
Miquelon. 1.
Mirales, in Philadelphia, 184.
Miró, at New Orleans, 329, 346 ; his plots 352; with Wilkinson, 361; jealous of Gardoqui, 366; depending on MeGilli- vray, 371 ; leaves New Orleans, 520. Mississippi Company, 377 ; formed, 46. Mississippi River, 348; bounding the English Colonies, 2; forks, 25; its fur traders, 29; its commerce to be di- verted through the Iberville, 32 ; English troops withdrawn, 33 ; Spanish posts, 35; French traders on eastern
bank, 36; the French from Vincennes trade on it, 70; its source, 101, 214. 221 ; its upper valley, 102 ; supplies for Americans carried up, 113; the Eng- lish aiming to control it, 162; free navigation of, 182 ; insisted on by Jay, 183; map of, 214; right to navigate. 215; as a channel of trade, 248, 316, 317 ; its opening a burning question, 256, 263; Crèvecœur's map, 259 ; pro- jeet for surrendering it to Spain, 318; beginnings of steam navigation, 321 ; Jay's wish to yield it to Spain for twenty-five years, 339; the weak side of Louisiana, 371; as a boundary, 471 ; the Spanish elaim still a perplexity, 516.
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