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Birthday of Northwest Territory Mother Land Celebrated
Daniel Webster praised the Ordinance of 1787 as a landmark shaping the United States. The article traces Nathan Dane’s role drafting the ordinance, its importance, and the 150th anniversary celebrations in Marietta Ohio with a pageant and a covered-wagon caravan from Ipswich to mark the milestone.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Daniel Webster
United States Senate
Solon
Lycurgus
Continental Congress
United States
Northwest Territory
Mother Land
Old Northwest
Thomas Jefferson
Rufus King
Arthur St. Clair
Charles Thomson
Nathan, Dane
Ipswich
Gloucester
Andover
Dane
Harvard
Beverly
Mass
Wetmore
Salem
General Court of
Massachusetts
Ohio River
Massachusetts Senate
Harvard Law School
America
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Mississippi
Ohio
Connecticut
New York
Virginia
Congress
Jefferson
Northwest
Nathan Dane
Manasseh Cutler
Ohio Company of Associates
George Rogers Clark
Bay State
United States of America
Congress of the Confederation
Webster
Hayne
General St. Clair
Fort Harmar
Muskingum
Rufus Putnam
Marietta
Marie Antoinette
France
Putnam
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