APPLICATION FOR CERTAIN PATENT RIGHTS
11TH Congress No. 286. 3d Session.
ROAD FROM VINCENNES, INDIANA, TOWARDS DAYTON, OHIO
COMMUNICATED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JANUARY 17, 1811
Mr. Jennings, from the committee appointed on the 5th instant, to inquire into the expediency of opening a road from Vincennes towards Dayton, in the State of Ohio, made the following report:
That the opening of such a road was contemplated by Congress in the act passed April, 1806; but the moneys appropriated for that, and similar purposes, have been found insufficient to accomplish the desired objects.
That the opening of the contemplated road would certainly expedite the sales of public lands, insomuch, that the Government would shortly be remunerated from that source for the necessary expenditure, independent of the general advantage to be derived from such an addition to the number of our public roads.
That it will be found the most direct course from Pitsburg to Vincennes and St. Louis, and will no doubt become the chief post route to the Territories northwest of the rivers Ohio and Mississippi, from the seat of Government of the United States, by way of the seat of Government of the State of Ohio. The committee, therefore, beg leave to submit the following resolution:
Resolved, That it is expedient to cause to be opened a road from Vincennes, or from some point on the road leading from Vincennes to the falls of Ohio, to the eastern boundary of the Indiana Territory, in a proper direction, towards Dayton, in the State of Ohio.
