1783 Treaty of Paris ending the American
Revolution
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1787 Northwest Territory Ordinance of 1787,
opened lands in Ohio for settlers. Ohio Indians will resist and defeat the
Americans in 1790-91.
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1788-1802 General Arthur St. Clair, governor of
the Northwest Territory (Federalist)
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1790 -1791 Americans Harmar and St. Clair defeated
by Ohio Indians.
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1790 Wyandotte village at Standing Stone vacated
by 1799 contained 500 natives and was called Tarhe Town or Crane Town (English
name)
Delaware Village 9 miles west of Hunter Settlement
was still occupied in 1799 and it was named Tobeytown for Chief
Tobey
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1794 "Mad Anthony" Wayne defeats Indians at
"Fallen Timbers".
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1795 Treaty of Greenville, opens southern half of
Ohio to peaceful settlement.
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1797-1801 John Adams, (Federalist) US President;
Government meets in Philadelphia
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1797 Zane's Trace opened; connecting Wheeling,
Virginia, with Zanesville, to the "Crossing of the Hockhocking" at Hunter's
Settlement (present-day Lancaster), to Chillicothe and on to Limestone,
Kentucky.
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1798 In April, Captain Joseph Hunter and wife,
Dorotha emigrate from Kentucky, and settle near Zane's Trace on the prairie
west of the crossing. It is called: "Hunter's Settlement".
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1799 Mid-September, Ohio Territory Government's
first meeting in Cincinnati. St. Clair still Government, Dr. Edward Tiffin,
elected Speaker and William Henry Harrison went as delegate to the U.S.
Congress
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1799 September, join the Frontier Players in
their Frontier Spirit drama, south of Hunter's Settlement, along the
Hockhocking River, in the woods, on the south ridge, as squatters in Congress
Lands, Washington County, Ohio Territory. Many of you arrived by canoe or
overland. You want land and property. Indians may visit here but most live
beyond Treaty Line.
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Frontier Players Association, Lancaster,
Ohio
