New Governments West of the Alleghenies Before 1780 Volume 2, No. 1; (Introductory to a Study of the Organization and Admission of New States) by George Henry Alden
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. 1897 Excerpt: ...1857, Vol. I., p. 85. Whether this property was anything more than the land, which was merely contracted for, it is impossible to say. It may have been property formerly owned by the Ohio Company. s Plain Facts, p. 160; Journals of Congress, Sept. 14,1779. It was occasionally referred to in connection with the Indiana, Illinois, and Wabash companies, --e. g. in Pennsyl vania Packet, Jan. 5, 1786, qnoting from a letter dated Dec. 10, 1781 from a Virginia delegate in Congress. 4 See the Remonstrance in Hening X., 557. CHAPTER III. CONCLUSIONS FROM THE FOREGOING CHAPTERS. In the two preceding chapters it has been the endeavor to give a connected history of the various attempts to establish colonial governments west of the Alleghany mountains. This history makes possible a few generalizations here, by way of summary. In the first place, it is worthy of note that practically every proposition for a new colony involves its location on the Ohio. Not only did the Ohio river flow through a most fertile country, but it was in itself the gateway to the west. It was natural that would-be western colonists should turn their attention first in that direction. In the next place, it is noticeable that the supporters of these schemes are, for the most part men from Pennsylvania, or New Jersey. This is probably due to the following facts. Pennsylvania was one of the most populous colonies, the nearest to the Ohio, and was by her charter limited on the west. The inhabitants of most of the colonies could find desirable lands without going outside of what they considered their legal limits. The Hazard scheme was evidently Presbyterian in its conception and its support, and so Hazard would naturally get a large following from Presbyterian New Jersey.1 Dr. Franklin's unwavering in...
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