Harrison to Jefferson
The Governor of the Indiana Territory presents his respectful compliments to the President of the United States and requests his acceptance of the enclosed map which is a copy of the manuscript map of Mr Evans[1] who ascended the Missouri River by order of the Spanish Government much further than any other person. [Indorsed:] Harrison Govr. Vincennes Nov. 26.03.recd Dec.20
Madison to Congress
The Secretary of State to whom by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d March last was referred a Petition of sundry inhabitants of Post St. Vincennes in the Indiana Territory; has examined the same, and thereupon makes the following reports, viz. The petitioners assert a right to a tract of land which they describe as extending along the Wabash River from Point Coupee to the Mouth of the White River comprising about seventy-two miles above and below Post St. Vincennes, and on both banks of the said River from the little Wabash to the Protoeas [Panse au Pichou?] River, forming according to their computation an extent in this direction of two hundred and twenty-six miles. This right they pretend to derive from an Indian grant to their predecessors as the first settlers of that District, as well as from a subsequent confirmation of it by the Indians. It is on the basis of these pretentions that they express their hopes that Congress will "allow them at least a part in the
grants which have lately been made by the Indians to the United States" and they add the request that a small tract of Woodland on the banks of the Wabash may be annexed
- ↑ This seems to refer to Lewis Evans, a colonial geographer who died in 1756. His maps were published in 1776 and used by the British armies.
