 | George Lunt - History - 1866 - 584 pages
...comprehending, therefore, only the immense tract ceded by Virginia, and including the territory of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnesota. If the project, which it may be supposed was entertained by Mr. Jefferson and some others, could have... | |
 | George Lunt - United States - 1867 - 536 pages
...comprehending, therefore, only the immense tract ceded by Virginia, and including the territory of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnesota. If the project, which it may be supposed was entertained by Mr. Jefferson and some others, could have... | |
 | John William Jones - 1889 - 752 pages
...liberality, to the general government for the common domain, the Northwest Territory, out of which tho States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnesota were afterwards carved, Virginia consented with surprising readiness to making this free territory.... | |
 | John William Jones - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1890 - 738 pages
...lies north of the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi, called the Northwest Territory, and outof which the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,...sovereignty. These thirteen powers, which were then aa independent of each other as France is of Spain, or Brazil is of Peru, or as any other nation can... | |
 | John William Jones - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1890 - 738 pages
...with princely liberality, to the general government for the common domain, the Northwest Territory, out of which the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnesota were afterwards carved, Virginia consented with surprising readiness to making this/rce territory.... | |
 | William Gammell - United States - 1890 - 416 pages
...the patriotic surrender by several States of the lauds embraced in their charters and now occupied by the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnesota. Anticipating the creation of imperial States like these, it dictated to them in advance a perpetual... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 526 pages
...immediately prohibited, and in that it only applied to the Northwestern Territory, which later became the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnesota. Coupled with this stipulation was a clause providing for the rendition of fugitive slaves. The Ordinance... | |
 | Ohio - Law - 1896 - 870 pages
...Indians upon the other; and, 791 and civilization of the great northwest territory, now comprising the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnesota, — a territory vastly superior to any part of the United States equal in area; and, WHEREAS, 1,4O0... | |
 | Ohio - Law - 1896 - 870 pages
...Indians upon the other; and, and civilization of the great northwest territory, now comprising tlie states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnesota, — a territory vastly superior to any part of the United States equal in area; and, WHEREAS, l,400... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - Imperialism - 1899 - 841 pages
...the acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands. The Northwest Territory embraced the area now occupied by the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnesota. On May 26, 1790, the Congress of the United States extended the provisions of this celebrated ordinance... | |
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Territory, and out of which the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and a part of Minnesota have since been carved, belonged to Virginia. 
