121Enclosure V: Arthur St. Clair to the Inhabitants of Prairie du Rocher, 5 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Beard, the Surveyor appointed to survey the Lands held by the Inhabitants at the Prairie du rocher, having executed that business as far as claimants appeared, is to be paid for his services at the rate of two dollars and a half per mile, reckoning upon one line in the length of each survey, and two dollars for each Lot in the Village. When that expence is defrayed, new concessions will be...
122Enclosure VI: Arthur St. Clair to John Francis Hamtramck, [23 January 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
“It is with great pain that I have heard of the scarcity of Corn which reigns in the settlements about the Post. I hope it has been exaggerated, but it is represented to me that unless a supply of that article can be sent forward, the people must actually starve.—Corn can be had here in any quantity, but can the people pay for it? I entreat [you] to enquire into that matter, and if you find...
123XII. Governor of the Northwest Territory to the Secretary of State, 11 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the honor to make the report of my proceedings in the Illinois country, the plan of the town of Cahokia had not come to hand.—I have since received three copies, one of which I have transmitted to your office.—I have the honor to be with great respect Sir, your most obedient servant FC ( DNA : RG 59, NWT , M/470). Not recorded in SJL or SJPL . No copy of the plan of Cahokia has been...
124To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur St. Clair, 19 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
By the Treaty of Fort McIntosh the Lands contained within the following Boundary were allotted to the Wyandots and Delawares, and the Ottowas who were in actual Occupation; viz beginning at the mouth of Cuyahoga River and running up the same to the portage between that and the Tuscarawas Branch of Muskingham; then down that Branch to the Forks at the crossing Place above Fort Lawrence; thence...
125To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur St. Clair, 9 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your Letter of the 19th. of April together with the ten Volumes of the Acts passed at the 2d. Session of the second Congress, which shall be distributed in such manner as to render an acquaintance with them as general as possible. In my progress to this Place Having halted at Marietta to see the Magistrates and enquire a little into the State of that Settlement,...
126To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur St. Clair, 22 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty to enclose to you a copper Coin that was found about a year ago near to the little Miami River, and thirty five miles above its confluence with the Ohio. The manner in which it was found was this:—A person, in opening a Spring of Water, had sunk about four feet in the earth, and the next day, as his Children were playing about the Spring, one of them picked up the...