Indiana, Virginia
Indiana, Virginia
INDIANA, VIRGINIA. A tract in what became West Virginia, between the Little Kanawha River and the boundary of Pennsylvania and extending from the Ohio River on the west to the Monongahela on the east, was known as Indiana. The Iroquois Indians ceded this land to the English in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768 in response to the fraudulent claims of a number of merchants, who maintained that the Iroquois had cheated them out of thousands of pounds in goods. Nothing ever came of their plans to organize settlement of this region. By the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals of 1775, this area became part of Benjamin Franklin's proposed western state of Vandalia.
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