<P> Furthermore, in regards to the Leni Lenape Native Americans living in the region, Congress decided that 10,000 acres on the Muskingum River in the present state of Ohio would "be set apart and the property thereof be vested in the Moravian Brethren...or a society of the said Brethren for civilizing the Indians and promoting Christianity ." </P> <P> The first governor of the Northwest Territory, Arthur St. Clair, formally established the government on July 15, 1788, at Marietta . His original plan called for the organization of five initial counties: Washington (Ohio east of the Scioto River), Hamilton (Ohio between the Scioto and the Miami Rivers), Knox (Indiana and eastern Illinois), St. Clair (Illinois and Wisconsin), and Wayne (Michigan). </P> <P> Under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which created the Northwest Territory, General St. Clair was appointed governor of what is now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, along with parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota . He named Cincinnati, Ohio, after the Society of the Cincinnati, and it was there that he established his home . When the territory was divided in 1800, he served as governor of the Ohio Territory . </P> <P> As Governor, he formulated the Maxwell Code (named after its printer, William Maxwell), the first written laws of the territory . He also sought to end Native American claims to Ohio land and clear the way for white settlement . In 1789, he succeeded in getting certain Indians to sign the Treaty of Fort Harmar, but many native leaders had not been invited to participate in the negotiations, or had refused to do so . Rather than settling the Indian's claims, the treaty provoked them to further resistance in what is sometimes known as the "Northwest Indian War" (or "Little Turtle's War"). Mutual hostilities led to a campaign by General Josiah Harmar, whose 1,500 militiamen were defeated by the Indians in October 1790 . </P>

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