we burnt I can not
account for." The force was on duty "not above twenty-seven
days ... and I would venture to say the expenses will be found
to be very moderate."--R. G. T.

[6] William Lytle, born in Carlisle, Pa., September 1, 1770.
He came to Ohio with his father, at the age of ten, and
subsequently became surveyor-general of the Northwest
Territory. His father served as a captain in the French and
Indian War, and as a colonel in the Revolution, and headed a
large colony to Ohio in 1780.--R. G. T.

[7] This name is sometimes written Magery. It is the same
individual who caused the disaster at the Blue Licks in August
1782.

[8] The treaty with the Shawnees was negotiated January 30,
1786, at Fort Finney, near the mouth of the Great Miami, by
George Rogers Clark, Richard Butler, and Samuel H. Parsons,
commissioners. The treaty with the Wyandots, Delawares,
Chippewas, and Ottawas was negotiated at Fort McIntosh, January
21, 1785, by Clark, Butler, and Arthur Lee. These treaties were
of little avail, so long as British agents like McKee, Elliott,
and Simon Girty lived among the Indians and kept them in a
constant ferment against the Americans.--R. G. T.

[9] The several states which, under their colonial charters
had claims to territory beyond the Ohio River,--Virginia, New
York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts,--had (1781-84)
relinquished their several claims to the newly-formed United
States, and the Ordinance of 1787 had provided for this
Northwest Territory an enlightened form of government which was
to be the model of the constitutions of the five states into
which it was ultimately to be divided. There was formed in
Boston, in March, 1786, the Ohio Company of Associates, and
October 17, 1787, it purchased from Congress a million and a
half acres in the new territory, about the mouth of the
Muskingum. Many of the shareholders were Revolutionary
soldiers, and great care was taken to select only good men as
colonists--oftentimes these were the best and most prosperous
men of their several localities. Gen. Rufus Putnam, a cousin of
Israel, and a near friend of Washington, was chosen as
superintendent of the pioneers. Two parties--one rendezvousing
at Danvers,