...ninety-one. WILLIAM BLOUNT, (L. s.) Governor in and over the Territory of the United States of America, south of the River Ohio, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southern District. Chuleoah, от the Boots, SquoIIecuttah, or Hanging Man, Occunna, or the Badger, Enoleh, or Black Fox,...

...jx>s8ession of the lands settled. This was done in 1791 at White's Fort by Governor William Blount of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio, which had been created in 1790 after North Carolina had ceded the Tennessee country to the United States....

...8th. 1790 the time of his appointment to the 31 December 1790, at 1500 Dollars pr. Annum Government of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio The Governor for his Salary as such, and for discharging the Duties of Superintendant of Indian Affairs...

...kind; aad one not less important than the establishment of a Government. The "Act for the Government of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio" is here alluded to. A constitution of Government is a Corporation of the highest nature — and that...

...friendship. Signed by WILLIAM BLOUNT, Governor in and over the territory of the United States of America south of the river Ohio, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southern District, and by forty of the Cherokee chiefs. Treaty at PHILADELPHIA with the Cherokees, ZGth June, 1794, Ratified...

...and Philadelphia Daily Advertiser, September 6, 1793. 3. William Blount was governor of the Territory South of the River Ohio and superintendent of Indian affairs for the territory. From Medad Mitchell 1 [Philadelphia, August 27, 1793] To the Honorable the secretary of...

...Carolina ceded the area that encompasses Tennessee to the United States.6 Congress in May 1790 organized "the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio" and provided that the government of the territory should be similar to that already established under the...

...the first permanent settlement there and 2 years betoie Tennessee became a state. In l7^ the assembly of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio incorporated Greeneville College (now Tusculum), HKmnl Colle.ee, and Washington College, the first...

...Blount began the dwelling that would serve not only as his residence but as the seat of the government of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio . In its present form the Blount house represents a development that may have taken place in several...

...Massengill DeFriece and Frank B. Williams, Jr., "Rocky Mount: The Cobb-Massengill Home: First Capitol of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio," THQ 25 (Summer 1966), 119-34; Margaret Burr DesChamps, "Early Days in the Cumberland Country," THQ...