The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-12-28
SOME LOST STATES.
A RScord OF Curious nnd nI-Fated Schemes
In the United States.

prosperous and permanent States, are
full of interest. They have, in gem
eral, no place in the current histories
OF the country and only the deliver in
original records and out-of-the-way
documents is likely to find them.
Now Connecticut included a num-
Der of towns on both sides of the Con-
necticut river, which, in June, 1879,
attempted to form a separate govern
ment, but the effort was short-lived
New Albion was grant made in 1884
by the Earl of Strafford, lord lieutenant
Of Ireland (the only American grant
under the great seal of the Emerald
isle). to Edward Plowden, of the pres
ent tract Of New Jersey with all tho
adjacent islands. 1t was not utilized
by Plowden, probably on account of
the Dutch claims. New Amstel was
a grant to the city of Amsterdam, in
1855, by the Dutch West India COM
pany, Of that part of the same terri
tory between the Christiankill and the
Delaware, in consideration of a large
payment. 1t was named from a suburb
OF Amsterdam. 1t was successfully
colonized, but so many difficulties were
experienced in the administration of
its affairs that after eight years the In
dia company was asked 30 take it back.
The beginnings Of government in
Kentucky were made by party of
North Carolinians, headed by Colonel
Richard Henderson. In defiance of
the ancient policy and statutes Of Vir-
ginia, which ruled the land, they as
sumed to purchase from the Cherokees
100000 acres, between the Cum
berland and Kentucky rivers, upon
which they tried to found "the Colony
of Pennsylvania" A legislature of
seventeen members met under an elm
at Fort Boone, or Boonesborough, May
%, 1775; the first Anglo American
government west of the Alleghanies
Sundry measures were passed during
the five days session, when the assem-
bly, adjourned, never to meet again, as
the movement was squelched by the
Virginia legislature and the refusal of
the continental congress to receive the
delegate sent to that body.
The post-revolutionary era was pro-
life in schemes for extending the
American empire. Congress looked
wisely to the early settlement
of the western country and
to It's subdivision and erection
into States. In 17S4-indeed, before
the cession by Virginia of her vast
tracts in the northwest to the United
States-an ordinance of that body, re-
ported by committee of which JEFF
ferson was chairman, provided for the
subdivision Of all territory acquired
in the then west, from tn
frontier of Florida to the
north line of the union. With
the growth of population in each pre-
scribed division of 10000 or more,
seventeen States in all were to be sue
cessively created-eight between the
Mississippi and north and south
line drawn through the falls of the
Ohio, eight between this line and
meridian through the mouth Of the
great Kenawha, and the seventeenth
between the latter and the western
boundary Of Pennsylvania and Vir-
ginia: Each State, in general, was to
have breadth of just two degrees of
latitude, without regard to natural
boundaries. a provision, doubtless
introduced by Jefferson, but which did
not pass with the bill, anticipated the
ordinance of 1887 in declaring that
there should be no slavery or involun-
tary servitude in the States formed fin
this case after the year 1S00), except
as punishment for crime. The pro-
posed division was found impracticable,
and was superseded three years after
ward by the ordinance just named for
the government of the territory north
west of the river Ohio.
In Jefferson's original draft of the
act of 1874 he provided definite bounds
and titles for such of the States as
might be formed north of Ohio. That
between the forty-ffth parallel and
the north limit Of the United States
was to be Sylvania; next south Of this,
Michigan, east Of which, in the present
lower peninsula of Michigan, would
come Choronesus the two States
south of these, Assinispia on the west
and Metropotamia to the east; below
these, Illinoia and Saratoga; between
tho latter and Pennsylvania, Washing
ton; and between the Ohio and the
fortieth parallel, Polypotamia (from
the old name of the Beautiful River).
But when the bill was sent back to the
committee the elaborate provisions for
these were stricken out.
In. the same year (1784) North
Carolina ceded her western lands to
the general government. Among them
were certain counties of East Tell
nessee, whose people revolted at the
ceSsion, met at Jonesboro in December
and formed separate organization
called Fraukland. Sewer, brigadier-
general of the military district, was
made. governor in March, 1885,
and ruled after a fashion for a
year Or two, until an armed COLI
sion occurred between his militia and
a force under Colonel Upton, leader of
a party favoring allegiance to North
Carolina. The governor" was de-
feated and taken to prison in irons;
and with his incarceration expired the
embryo States. In 1888 North Caro-
lima passed an act of oblivion in regard
to all persons concerned in the matter.
The republic of the Rio Grande was
attempted by General Canales, revo-
Mexican, in 1889. 1t was
created from parts of Tamaulipas, Goa
hula and Durango, and included a
strip of the present State of Texas.
Canales was made president, and
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