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In 1790 the territorial boundaries of the United States were those established in 1783 by the
Treaty of Paris which ended the American Revolution. The Union consisted of the original
thirteen states with Virginia and Georgia still extending west to the Mississippi River. Twoterritories (the Northwest Territory and the
domain of the United States. The Northwest
Territory included present-day Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and
a part of Minnesota. The Southwest
Territory, established in 1790, became
Tennessee when entering the Union in
1796. As the population spread to these
territories, states were formed and ceded to
the United States causing boundary changes
and the establishment of additional
territories. In 1798 Congress established the
Mississippi Territory and created the
Indiana Territory in 1800 from the western
half of the Northwest Territory. Two
territories resulted from the Louisiana
Purchase (Orleans Territory and Louisiana
Territory). When Orleans Territory became
the state of Louisiana in 1812, the
remainder of the Louisiana Purchase was
renamed the Missouri Territory. ArkansasSouthwest Territory) comprised the rest of the
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United States was rapidly spreading westward and these territories were changing with the
ceding of all or a portion of the area for statehood. Between 1787 and 1912, Congress
organized twenty eight territories.
Affairs in the territories were under the direction of the Department of State from the
beginning of the national government to the year 1873 at which time their administration was
transferred to the Department of the Interior. Many documents were created in the life of the
territory that attest ancestral migrations and struggles into the new lands.
The volumes of published papers known as the Territorial Papers consist of transcripts of
government documents which were created by officials in the course of their responsibilities.
Included are materials from the Department of State, Department of War, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, Post Office Department, various House and Senate files and miscellaneous other
sources relating to the areas prior to statehood. The preface to Volume XIX, The Territory
of Arkansas 1819-1825, mentions that, "...certain significant selections have also been taken
from the columns of the Arkansas Gazette..." Historians were the primary motivators in theOverview
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Guide to Resources in the Genealogy Collection of the Dallas Public Library
The Territorial Papers of the United States
by Linda Shaddock RogersDGS Newsletter
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