John Bedford Lloyd
1) The pioneers
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 hrs. 30 min.) : audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families...