108 St. Clair to the President, 1790—“St. Clair Papers” II., 175. 109 Hamtramck to Harmar, from Vincennes, Oct. 13, 1788—“Draper Coll., Harmar Papers,” I., 479; extract in “St. Clair Papers,” II., 105. 110 Tardiveau to St. Clair, from Danville, June 30, 1789—“St. Clair Papers,” II., 117-19. 111 Extract from above letter.—_Ibid._, II., 119-20, note. 112 George Morgan was much engaged in large land purchases. In 1763, some Shawanese and other Indians carried off the property of certain whites to the value of £85,916 10_s._, 8_d._ The offenders being tributary to the Six Nations, the latter granted to King George III., for the exclusive use of the sufferers, on November 3, 1768, at Fort Stanwix, the tract of some two million five hundred thousand acres, later known as the claim of the Indiana Company. The land lay southeast of the Ohio, and was claimed in part by both Virginia and Pennsylvania. For map see “States of America,” by J. Russell, London, E. Dilly and G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799; Hutchins, “Topographical Desc. of Va.,” etc., French ed., Paris, 1781; Winsor, “Westward Movement,” 17. Morgan, who was a large shareholder in the company, was for years its agent. The claim was finally denied. Morgan was also the founder of New Madrid, in what is now Missouri, but he was unfortunate in assuming powers denied by the Spanish government. His experience in Illinois was likewise a failure—“Cal. of Va. State Papers” I., 273, 297, 320; VI., 1-36 (a history of the Indiana purchase), 261, 679, 301; “Jour. of Cong.,” III., 359, 373; IV., 23; “Rept. on Canadian Archives,” 1888, p. 939; “Draper Coll., Clark MSS.,” LIII., 78; Gayerré, “Hist. of La.,” index under Morgan refers to passages giving several quotations from sources; Kate Mason Rowland, “George Mason,” I., 230, 324-8, 289, 308, 333, 341-4; II., 21, 26, 239, 244, 262, 341-5, 406, 440-1. George Mason was manager for the commonwealth when, in 1791, the final effort was made by the Indiana Company to overthrow the Virginia settlement of its claim. Some original sources of importance are given in this work—“Plain Facts: being an Examination into the Rights of the Indian Nations of America, to their respective Countries, and a Vindication of the Grant, from the Six United Nations of Indians, to the Proprietors of Indiana, against the decision of Virginia, together with authentic documents, proving that the territory, westward of the Alleghany Mountain, never belonged to Virginia, etc., Philadelphia...: M.DCC.LXXXI.” The work gives a resumé of the proceedings of the company to 1779, 164 pp. “View of the Title to Indiana, a tract of country on the River Ohio,” 24 pp., printed about 1775. 113 “Jour. of Cong.,” IV., 341-2, 823-5.