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Maumee Road Lands were a group of land tracts granted by the United States Congress to the state of Ohio in 1823 along the path of a proposed road in the northwest corner of the state. ==History== With the Treaty of Greenville in 1795 the Indian Nations ceded southern and eastern Ohio to white settlement.〔 - Text of Treaty of Greenville Library of Congress〕 The Treaty of Fort Industry in 1805 moved the boundary westward to a line west of Pennsylvania, which coincided with the western boundary of the Firelands of the Connecticut Western Reserve.〔 - Text of Treaty of Fort Industry Library of Congress〕 In 1807, the Treaty of Detroit called for the cession of lands northwest of the Maumee River, mostly in the Michigan Territory.〔 - Text of Treaty of Detroit Library of Congress〕 The area between the Maumee River and the 1805 boundary remained Indian Lands, and thus, the United States could not legally build a road connecting settlements in Ohio and the Michigan Territory. This area was also in the Great Black Swamp, and would require much engineering effort and funds to cross with a road. On November 25, 1808, at Brownstown in Michigan Territory, the United States and five nations of Indians signed the Treaty of Brownstown.〔 - Text of Treaty of Brownstown Library of Congress〕 Article II of the treaty called for the Indian Nations to cede to the United States a tract of land two miles (3 km) wide from Perrysburg, Ohio on the Maumee River to Bellevue, Ohio on the western edge of the Western Reserve so the United States could build a road wide to connect their disconnected lands. In 1811,〔 - Text of Act of December 12, 1811 Library of Congress〕 Congress appropriated $6,000 to explore, survey and mark a road sixty feet wide. In 1815,〔 - Text of Act of February 4, 1815 Library of Congress〕 Congress made provisions to survey the lands one mile (1.6 km) either side of the road path into tracts running parallel and perpendicular to path of the road, and sell them at the Canton Land Office. In 1816,〔 - Text of Act of April 16, 1816 Library of Congress〕 the President was authorized to move the path of the road to pass through Fremont. No action was taken on these counts, so, in 1820, the Ohio legislature asked Congress to take action.〔Peters 1918 : 317〕 All the land between the Maumee River and the Western Reserve was ceded by the Indians with the Treaty of Fort Meigs in 1817,〔 - Text of Treaty of Fort Meigs Library of Congress〕 and surveyed into townships and sections in the Congress Lands North and East of the First Principal Meridian in 1821. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maumee Road Lands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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