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| A Year of Indiana History - 2016 |
A group of land speculators attempted to form a new, fourteenth colony, in the region south of the Ohio River in 1768. This group, which became the "Indiana Land Company," used the name "Indiana" for the first time.
Attempts to Settle the Area
The American colonists tried several times to expand westward in the years before the Revolutionary War. The first attempt occurred in the area where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers joined to form the Ohio River in the current location of Pittsburg. Hostilities between the native tribes and the French during the French and Indian War and the later conflict, which became known as Pontiac’s Rebellion, stifled this effort. Following the French and Indian War King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which forbade settlement in the regions west of a line drawn through the Appalachian Mountains. This proclamation further stymied colonial attempts to settle the west. Numerous incursions into the area created tensions with the native tribes, sparking the outbreak of Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763. The British Crown attempted to settle border unrest when they negotiated the Treaty of Fort Stanwix on October 24, 1768. This treaty forced the Amerindian tribes to compensate the colonists for properties lost during the previous wars by forcing the tribes to cede a grant of land in the area that now encompases eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. This grant became known as the Indiana Land Grant.Failed Attempt
The Indiana Land Company pursued the Crown to have the new colony approved that they would call Vandalia. Virginia and Pennsylvania claimed the lands in the region and conflicts with the native tribes that lived in the region delayed colonization and approval. The outbreak of the Revolutionary caused the effort to fail. No agreement would occur until after the Revolutionary War when the Congress established the Northwest Territory on July 13, 1787.
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