![]() The original 13 colonies donated their western lands to the new union, for the purpose of giving land for new states. The Continental Congress passed the Land Ordinance of 1785 and then the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 to control the survey, sale, and settling of the new lands. ![]() In the 1783 Treaty of Paris recognizing the United States, Britain also recognized American rights to the land south of the Great Lakes and west to the Mississippi River. It was not useful for the large, newly surveyed tracts of land being opened in the west, which were being sold sight unseen to investors.Over time, these descriptions become problematic as trees die or streams move by erosion. ![]()
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