![]() The Michigan Territorial Governor, Lewis Cass, went to President James Monroe to protest the call. Surveyor General, and former Ohio governor, Edward Tiffin, sent William Harris out to survey the line according to Ohio's constitution. This revelation had the Ohioans in Congress screaming, "Offsides!" They immediately campaigned to have the northern line accepted as the official border. ![]() When the Michigan Territory was created in 1805, surveyors realized the tip of Lake Michigan was actually further south and included the area that would later become Toledo. This is the territorial "line-of- scrimmage" that Ohioans recognized when their constitution was drafted in 1803. The original line was drawn using maps that showed the line intersecting Lake Erie north of the Maumee River. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established an east-west line drawn from the southern tip of Lake Michigan across the base of the peninsula. Mason, a small 250-person group of volunteers moved toward Toledo to defend their territory from an Ohio take-over. ![]() ![]() Led by Michigan's feisty 22 year old Territorial Governor, Stevens T. ![]()
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