John Cleves Symmes and Colonel Robert Patterson had been founded a settlement 1788 on the site of present Cincinnati, Ohio.

Surveyor John Filson (also the author of The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone) had named it "Losantiville" from four terms, each of a different language, meaning "the city opposite the mouth of the Licking River".

Ville is French for "city", anti is Greek for "opposite", os is Latin for "mouth", and "L" was all that was included of "Licking River".

Under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, had which created the Northwest Territory, General Arthur St. Clair had been appointed governor of what is now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, along with parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota.

He renames the settlement Cincinnati after the Society of the Cincinnati, of which he is a member, and it is here that he established his home.

The Society honors General George Washington, who is considered a latter day Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer who was called to serve Rome as dictator, an office which he resigned after completing his task of defeating the Aequians in no less than sixteen days, and was considered the role model dictator.

Josiah Harmar directs the construction in 1789 of Fort Washington, built to protect the settlements in the Northwest Territory, and named in honor of the President.

As Governor, St. Clair formulates Maxwell's Code (named after its printer, William Maxwell), the first written laws of the territory.

He also seeks to end Native American claims to Ohio land and clear the way for white settlement.

Fort Washington is built in 1789 to protect early settlements located in the Northwest Territory.

The fort is located within modern-day Downtown Cincinnati and iwill be used to protect settlers of this city in its early years.

General Josiah Harmar describes it as "one of the most solid substantial wooden fortresses. . .of any in the Western Territory."

The stockade's walls are two stories high with blockhouses located at each corner.

The fort is named in honor of President George Washington.

Fort Washington provides military protection for the surrounding territories.

General Arthur St. Clair had been appointed governor of the Northwest Territory by vote of Congress on October 5, 1787; he will fill the office until November 22, 1802.

When Governor St. Clair arrives at Losantiville [Cincinnati] the settlement consists of two small hewed log houses and several cabins.

Major Doughty, under orders from Gen. Josiah Harmar, is engaged with a small military force in finishing the construction of Fort Washington.

The population of the rude village, exclusive of the military, probably does not exceed one hundred and fifty.

The Treaty of Fort Harmar, an agreement between the United States government and numerous native tribes with claims to the Northwest Territory, is signed at Fort Harmar, near present-day Marietta, Ohio, on January 9, 1789.

Representatives of the Iroquois Six Nations and other groups, including the Wyandot, Delaware, Ottawa, Chippewa, Potawatomi and Sauk meet with Arthur St. Clair, the governor of the Northwest Territory, and other American leaders such as Josiah Harmar and Richard Butler.

The treaty is supposed to address issues remaining since the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix and the 1785 Treaty of Fort McIntosh; but, the new agreement does little more than reiterate the terms of those two previous documents with a few minor changes.

The negotiations and document fail to address the most important grievances of the tribes, namely, the settlement of New Englanders in the Firelands portions of the Western Reserve, an area that extends into the territory set aside for the tribes.

Governor Arthur St. Clair had been authorized by Congress and Secretary of War Henry Knox to offer back some lands reserved for American settlement in exchange for the disputed Firelands of the Western Reserve.

St. Clair had refused to give up these lands and instead, through threats and bribery, has negotiated a treaty that simply reiterates the terms of previous treaties.

Several regional tribes, such as the Shawnee, have been excluded from the negotiations.

As a result, the Shawnee will refuse to abide by the treaty.

The new treaty will do almost nothing to stop the rash of violence along the frontier from confrontations between settlers and natives.

The failure of the treaty will lead to an escalation of the Northwest Indian War (or "Little Turtle's War") as the tribes try to expel the pioneers; it will continue for six years until the United States defeats the tribal alliance at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794.

The Tammany Society, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, had been founded in New York on May 12, 1789, originally as a branch of a wider network of Tammany Societies, the first having been formed in Philadelphia in 1772.

The society had originally developed as a club for "pure Americans".

The name "Tammany" comes from Tamanend, a Native American leader of the Lenape.

The society has adopted many Native American words and also their customs, going so far as to call its hall a wigwam.

The first Grand Sachem, as the leader was titled, was William Mooney, an upholsterer of Nassau Street.

By 1798, the Society's activities had grown increasingly politicized.

High ranking Democrat-Republican Aaron Burr, seeing Tammany Hall as an opportunity to counter Alexander Hamilton's Society of the Cincinnati, has developed it into a political machine.

Eventually, the Tammany political machine (distinct from the Society), led by Aaron Burr, who is never a member of the Society, emerges as the center for Democratic-Republican Party politics in the city.

Burr uses the Tammany Society for the election of 1800, in which he is elected Vice President.

Without Tammany, historians believe, President John Adams might have won New York state's electoral votes and won reelection.