451Editorial Note: The Virginia Cession of Territory Northwest of the Ohio (Jefferson Papers)
With the acceptance by Congress of the Virginia cession on 1 Mch. 1784, the national domain came...
452I. Preliminary Form of Deed of Cession, [13 February 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[13 Feb. 1784] To all who shall see these presents we [here name the delegates] the underwritten,...
453II. Deed of Cession as Executed, 1 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
To all who shall see these presents , We Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Hardy, Arthur Lee and James...
454Editorial Note: Plan for Government of the Western Territory (Jefferson Papers)
On 1 Mch. 1784, immediately after the acceptance of the Virginia Deed of Cession, Jefferson...
455I. Bounds of a Proposed Northwest Colony, 1 September 1783–1 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Bounded by a line of Longitude running from the most Southernly point of Lake Michigan to the...
456II. Bounds of Six Proposed Northwest Colonies, 1 January–1 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 234: 41926); entirely in TJ’s hand, with deletions and interlineations that...
457III. Report of the Committee, 1 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
The Committee appointed to prepare a plan for the temporary government of the Western territory...
458IV. Revised Report of the Committee, 22 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
The Committee to whom was recommitted the report of a plan for a temporary government of the...
459V. The Ordinance of 1784, 23 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
CONGRESS resumed the consideration of the report of a committee on a plan for a temporary...
460VI. Report on State Claims to Western Territory, [22 March 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
The report of a Committee on the subject of Western territory having been referred to the Grand...