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 for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were
three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal
education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In
1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the
Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War
veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta
on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through
five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler's son Ephraim; and
two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a
physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. Drawn
in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries
and letters by the key figures, written with David McCullough's
signature narrative energy.
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