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Excerpt from Annals of St. Louis in Its Territorial Days, From 1804 to 1821: Being a Continuation of the Author's Previous Work, the Annals of the French and Spanish Period By an act of Congress of May 7,1800, the "Northwest Territory" was divided into two separate governments. That portion immediately west and adjoining Pennsylvania, became the territory of Ohio, and the balance of the country, extending west to the Mississippi river, was formed into the new territory of Indiana. On May 13, Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison, of Virginia, was appointed the Governor, and John Gibson, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the new territory - and shortly afterwards Wm. Clark, Henry Vander-berg and John Griffin, Territorial Judges, who held the first term of their court at Vincennes, on March 3, 1801. The population of the new Territory, embracing all the country now Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin was 4,875, about one-half in the settlements in the American bottom on the Mississippi, and the balance on the Ohio, Illinois, Wabash and other points. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.