This ordinance accepted the abolishment of all claims to the land west of Pennsylvania and north of the Ohio River by the states of Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, and the ordinance established Federal control over all of this land in the Northwest Territory — with the goal that several new states should be created there.

Newman enrolled in the Navy V-12 program at Ohio University, hoping to be accepted for pilot training, but was dropped when it was discovered he was color blind.

When four years later his mother died, his father accepted a position as director of the Dayton Philharmonic in Ohio, where Blumenschein grew up.

In September 1928, LeMay was approached by the Ohio National Guard and asked to accept a state commission, also as a second lieutenant, which LeMay accepted.

Three of the remaining non-football members ( Alderson – Broaddus, Davis & Elkins, and Ohio Valley ) accepted invitations to join the Great Midwest Athletic Conference.

In 1883 he accepted a position as professor of physics at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio and concentrated on developing an improved interferometer.

This was generally accepted to be all the land claimed by the French from the mouth of the Ohio River, north to the Great Lakes, and including the valleys of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers.

It is generally accepted, although not proven, that Grisell then platted the land into a town in August 1836, and named it New Lisbon, presumably after the Village of Lisbon in his home county of Columbiana County, Ohio.

Cartwright graduated from high school in 1976 and accepted a scholarship from Ohio University.

Brian Gallagher, former head of United Way in Columbus, Ohio, accepted the job in 2002 and was still president and CEO at the end of 2011.

The difference between the two lines was the whole area south of the Great lakes, north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi, in which the Six Nations and western Indian tribes were previously accepted as sovereign.

* 1972 Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio is accepted into the PAC.

After spending a short time in Ohio, he settled in Helena, Arkansas, where he obtained employment as a pharmacist and was readily accepted into the town's social order.

In 1937, Ransom accepted a position at Kenyon College in Ohio.

He then accepted a position backstage with WWE, working as a wrestling trainer in Ohio Valley Wrestling, WWE's main developmental territory.

When Gerry was less than a year old, the family moved to Marion, Ohio, where his father accepted a job with the Marion Power Shovel Company.

The committee proposed to delete the " Lectures on Faith " on the grounds that they were " lessons prepared for use in the School of the Elders, conducted in Kirtland, Ohio, during the winter of 1834-35 ; but they were never presented to nor accepted by the Church as being otherwise than theological lectures or lessons.

In 1927 she moved to Columbus, Ohio, where Blaine had accepted a professorship at the Ohio State University.

On January 5, 1828, the Indiana General Assembly accepted the grant and appointed three commissioners .< ref name =" grant "> Charles R. Poinsatte, < cite > Fort Wayne During the Canal Era 1828-1855 </ cite > ( Indiana Historical Bureau, 1969 ), 33-34 .</ ref > These commissioners concluded that the canal would have to extend into Ohio and petitioned that state to appoint a commission of their own.

Therefore, when an offer to assume the Presidency of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was made, it was quickly accepted.

On February 8, 1945, Brown accepted the job, saying he was sad to leave Ohio State, but he " couldn't turn down this deal in fairness to my family.

The following year Goodrich accepted an offer of $ 13, 600 from the citizens of Akron, Ohio, to relocate his business there.

Vespasian accepted, and entered an alliance with Gaius Licinius Mucianus, the governor of Syria, against Vitellius.

In spite of Dunn's skepticism, this version has been accepted by Evan Bayh, who has served as Indiana governor and senator, and by Senator Vance Hartke, who introduced this story into the Congressional Record ( 1975 ), according to Graf.

Caesar then accepted him into his inner circle and made him governor of Gaul when he left for Africa in pursuit of Cato and Metellus Scipio.

In 188, Emperor Ling accepted a memorial from Yi Province governor Liu Yan suggesting he grant direct administrative power over feudal provinces and direct command of regional military to local governors, as well promoting them in rank and filling such positions with members of the Liu family or court officials.

Vespasian accepted, and through negotiations by Titus, joined forces with Gaius Licinius Mucianus, governor of Syria.

The Song court accepted the recognition of Li Yuanhao as ' governor ', but not ' emperor ', a title considered exclusive to the Song emperor.

Soon after the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, in 1920, Chen accepted an invitation by a rebel governor in Guangzhou to serve as the head of the province's education board, but this position dissolved when the government returned to Nationalist control.

In 2004, she accepted a teaching job at the University of Alaska ending speculation of her candidacy for governor in 2006.

In 1663, the first grant in the area was given in to Maj. John Mason, deputy governor of the Connecticut colony ; the next year, Mason accepted northwest of Norwich.

Failing in the election for governor, he accepted the presidency of the college, in which he continued until his death.

" An instant success, Canada Dry products were accepted by appointment to the Royal Household of the governor general.

Ward accepted the proposal, Josias Lyndon was elected as governor, and the two adversaries, Ward and Hopkins, met and united in a cordial friendship for the remainder of their lives.

He accepted a division in the expedition to Egypt under Bonaparte, but suffered a wound in the head at Alexandria in the first engagement, which prevented his taking any further part in the campaign of the Pyramids, and caused his appointment as governor of Alexandria.

In 1889, after the end of his third term as governor, he accepted the new cabinet position of Secretary of Agriculture in the Benjamin Harrison administration.

In 1778, he accepted a command which in the ordinary course would have terminated his active career, becoming Commissioner of the dockyard at Portsmouth and governor of the Naval Academy.

He was a governor sent by Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas, who accepted the Hussite proposal to be their new king.

When the war was ended by the Peace of Münster in January 1648, he accepted from the elector of Brandenburg the post of governor of Cleves, Mark and Ravensberg, and later also of Minden.

In 1856, he accepted an appointment as governor of Barbados and the Windward Islands, and, in 1861, became governor of British Guiana.

In early July 2008 it was announced that President Dmitri Medvedev had accepted Abramovich's latest request to resign as governor of Chukotka, although his various charitable activities in the region would continue.

Diaz accepted this request and appointed a different governor

All but three judges accepted their unwanted commissions, and the governor urged compliance.

On December 6, 1780, a little over a month after his arrest, governor Haldimand accepted the request for the release of du Calvet which legislative counsellor François Lévesque had submitted him.