th Virginia and
Pennsylvania. For map see "States of America," by J. Russell,
London, E. Dilly and G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799; Hutchins,
"Topographical Desc. of Va.," etc., French ed., Paris, 1781; Winsor,
"Westward Movement," 17. Morgan, who was a large shareholder in the
company, was for years its agent. The claim was finally denied.
Morgan was also the founder of New Madrid, in what is now Missouri,
but he was unfortunate in assuming powers denied by the Spanish
government. His experience in Illinois was likewise a failure--"Cal.
of Va. State Papers" I., 273, 297, 320; VI., 1-36 (a history of the
Indiana purchase), 261, 679, 301; "Jour. of Cong.," III., 359, 373;
IV., 23; "Rept. on Canadian Archives," 1888, p. 939; "Draper Coll.,
Clark MSS.," LIII., 78; Gayerre, "Hist. of La.," index under Morgan
refers to passages giving several quotations from sources; Kate
Mason Rowland, "George Mason," I., 230, 324-8, 289, 308, 333, 341-4;
II., 21, 26, 239, 244, 262, 341-5, 406, 440-1. George Mason was
manager for the commonwealth when, in 1791, the final effort was
made by the Indiana Company to overthrow the Virginia settlement of
its claim. Some original sources of importance are given in this
work--"Plain Facts: being an Examination into the Rights of the
Indian Nations of America, to their respective Countries, and a
Vindication of the Grant, from the Six United Nations of Indians, to
the Proprietors of Indiana, against the decision of Virginia,
together with authentic documents, proving that the territory,
westward of the Alleghany Mountain, never belonged to Virginia,
etc., Philadelphia...: M.DCC.LXXXI." The work gives a resume of the
proceedings of the company to 1779, 164 pp. "View of the Title to
Indiana, a tract of country on the River Ohio," 24 pp., printed
about 1775.

113 "Jour. of Cong.," IV., 341-2, 823-5.

114 "Jour. of Cong.," IV., 823-5. The location of the ridge of rocks is
clearly shown in Hutchins' "Topographical Desc. of Va.," 1778, on a
map opposite p. 41. French edition of 1781, facing p. 16; Winsor,
"Nar. and Crit. Hist. of Am.," VI., 700; Collot, "Atlas of America,"
1826.

115 Throughout the period covered by this work, the term squatter
denoted one who illegally settled on public land, without a tit