CHAPTER V.
THE MEN OF THE WESTERN WATERS, 1798-1802.
Rapid Growth of the West.
The growth of the West was very rapid in the years immediately succeeding the peace with the Indians and the treaties with England and Spain.

As the settlers poured into what had been the Indian-haunted wilderness it speedily became necessary to cut it into political divisions.

Kentucky had already been admitted as a State in 1792; Tennessee likewise became a State in 1796.

The Territory of Mississippi was organized in 1798, to include the country west of Georgia and south of Tennessee, which had been ceded by the Spaniards under Pinckney's treaty.

[Footnote: Claiborne's "Mississippi," p.