Portal:Northwest Territory

Works

Books

• Journal of the convention, of the territory of the United States north-west of the Ohio (1802) (start transcription)
• Pioneer History (1848) (start transcription)
• The Old Northwest Territory; Its Missions, Forts and Trading Posts (1875) (start transcription)
• Cession of the Northwest Territory and the Ordinance of 1787 (1884) (start transcription)
• History and Management of Land Grants for Education in the Northwest Territory (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin) (1885) (start transcription)
• The Northwest Territory Settlement of the Western Reserve (1885) (start transcription)
• The Coming Centennial, April 7, 1888: The Ninety-Eighth Anniversary of the Settlement of Ohio and the Northwest Territory, Celebrated at Marietta, Ohio, April 7, 1886.pdf (start transcription)
• Centennial Hymn of the Northwest Territory (1887) (start transcription)
• The Story of a Hundred Years; Or the Territorial Growth of the United States of America Since the Organization of the Northwest Territory, July 13th, 1787 (1887) (start transcription)
• Report of Proceedings of the Committees Having Charge of Relics at the Centennial Celebration, April 7, 1888 (1888) (start transcription)
• Evolution of the Ordinance of 1787 (1891) (start transcription)
• Historical Souvenir of Fort Defiance and the Northwest Territory.pdf (1894) (start transcription)
• The Northwest Territory 1787–1790 (1903) (start transcription)
• The Land Companies in the Northwest Territory from 1783 to 1800 (1913) (start transcription)
• The Activities of the Baptists in the Northwest Territory 1815–50 (1914) (start transcription)
• The Laws of the Northwest Territory, 1788–1800 (1925) (start transcription)
• Program for Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Conquest of the Old Northwest (1926) (start transcription)
• Travelers' Experiences in the Old Northwest (1930) (start transcription)
• The Old Northwest Territory and Pharmaceutical Education (1934) (start transcription)
• Final Report of the Northwest Territory Celebration Commission (1937) (transcription project)
• The Ordinance of 1787 and Old Northwest Territory (1937) (start transcription)
• The Northwest Territory Celebration (1938) (start transcription)

Laws, statutes, and other government publications

• Resolution to Organize the Northwest Territory (1783)
• Northwest Ordinance of 1784 (1784) (start transcription)
• Northwest Ordinance (1787) (start transcription)
• Laws passed in the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio, from the commencement of the government to the 31st of December, 1791 (1791) (start transcription)
• Laws passed in the territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, from July to December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, inclusive (1794) (start transcription)
• Laws of the Territory of the United States North-West of the Ohio (1796) (start transcription)
• Laws of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio (1798) (start transcription)
  • Draft edition (1787) (start transcription)
• Executive Journal of the Northwest Territory, Volume 1 (1788–1792) (published in 1957, written in the 1780s/1790s) (start transcription), (start transcription)

Letters

• Northwest Territory Letter of Nathan Dane Concerning the Ordinance of 1787, and Patrick Henry's Secret Letter of Instruction to George Rogers Clark (1897) (start transcription), (start transcription)
• Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/St. Clair to Harrison Division of the Northwest territory (1800)
• Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Harrison to the Secretary of War Complaints of the Indian chiefs of the Northwest territory (1801)
• The Jefferson–Lemen Compact (published in 1915, written in the 1780s) (start transcription)

Reference works and articles

• "Some Legacies of the Ordinance of 1787", in Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volume 9 (1899) (start transcription)
• "Northwest Territory", in The New International Encyclopædia (1905)
• "Ordinance of 1787" in The New International Encyclopædia (1905)
• "The Criminal Code of the Northwest Territory" in Indiana Magazine of History (1913) (start transcription)
• "Ordinance of 1787, The", in The New Student's Reference Work (1914)