He was painted a few years later in 1788 by Mather Brown. In the negotiations to end the Revolution, John Adams insisted that the Ohio territory must belong to the new nation. Thomas Jefferson echoed their sentiments, calling the Ohio “the most beautiful river on earth” in his book, Notes on the State of Virginia, even though he had never seen it. When French explorer La Salle first saw the Ohio in 1669, he described it as La Belle Rivière, " the Beautiful River. The Seneca Indians called it the Ohi:yo’ (pronounced oh-hee-yoh), literally the “Good River.” There was still not a single legal permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory when the U.S.
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