Ordinance for the Establishment of a Mint 392 From original document in collection of the New York Historical Society. In collection of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston. Governor Bowdoin's Proclamation, January 12, 1787 395 From original in the New York Public Library. Jefferson's Plan for the Organization of the Northbetween 400 and 401 west Territory Shows peculiar names suggested for these places-Chersonesus, Assenisipia, Map of Proposed States in the West, 1777-86 Compiled by David Maydole Matteson, A. M. Autograph of Thomas Hutchins From original in the New York Public Library (Emmet Collection). 402 403 An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio. between 404 and 405 . From a printed copy in the New York Public Library (Emmet Collection). Plat of the Seven Ranges of Townships between 406 and 407 Surveyed by Captain Thomas Hutchins, Geographer of the United States, Ohio Company's Land Contract between 408 and 409 From original in collection of Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio. Portrait of Arthur Saint Clair From portrait by Peale, in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. Map Showing Development of the West to 1787. Compiled by David Maydole Matteson, A. M. Autograph of Simon Kenton 410 between 410 and 411 From original in the New York Public Library (Emmet Collection). Portrait of Noah Webster From portrait by Sharpless in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. Portrait of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney From portrait by Sharpless in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. The State House, Philadelphia, 1776 From print in the collection of Mr. C. S. Keyser. Constitution of the United States. between 436 and 437 Shows the last article and signatures. From the original in the archives in A History of the United States and its People THE REVOLUTION: 1775-1783 THE CONFEDERATION: 1784-1787 FTER the shedding of British blood at Concord Hunting for AR and Bunker Hill, George III. was more than Help ever determined to crush the rebellious colonies by force. National and military pride had been aroused and many in England who, in 1774, had bitterly denounced the ministry felt, in 1775, that the Americans must be chastised. Nevertheless, the war was not yet popular; recruiting proceeded slowly and the people would not endure a conscription; troops must be secured in some other way. George III. was elector of Hanover and the custom of the times pointed to the employment of foreign troops. Germany was now split up into nearly three hundred German practically independent states, ranging from great king- Mercenaries doms like Austria and Prussia down to little principalities too small to be shown upon a map. It had long been the custom of the impecunious princelets who ruled over these petty states to hire out their subjects, and German troops were sometimes arrayed on opposite sides in the same battle. Into this promising market a British agent, Colonel William Faucitt, was sent to buy up food for powder and ball at so many pounds per head. His instructions from the earl of Suffolk were "to get as November, many as you can. Expense is not so much the 1775 object in the present emergency as in ordinary cases." Faucitt met his first success in Brunswick, then gov- In Brunswick erned by an ambitious and extravagant duke and by his January 9 1 7 7 6 more thrifty son, Prince Charles William Ferdinand, who had married a sister of George III. Brunswick contained but one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants and its princes were badly in debt. A treaty was soon drawn up whereby the duke was to equip and officer for the king of England a corps of three thousand nine hundred and sixty-four infantry and three hundred and thirtysix unmounted dragoons. The king was to pay the troops and to care for their sick and wounded as if they were his own, and the duke was to receive, as levy money, 71. 4. 424. thirty crowns banco for every common soldier actually delivered. For the corps, the king was to pay an annual rental as long as it was in service and twice that amount for two years after its return to Brunswick. 11,517/. 175. The Hessian Uniform of a Hessian Grenadier of From Brunswick, Faucitt hastened to HesseCassel. This state had double the population of Brunswick and was ruled over by a landgrave, Frederick II., who indulged himself in such expensive luxuries as the cast-off mistress of a French duke, French adventurers, and a French theater with a corps de ballet. When Faucitt asked for ten or twelve thousand men, he was agreeably surprised by the offer of a larger number. Without loss of time, a treaty was concluded. The subsidy agreed upon was at the |