Saratoga, proposed State of
Under Thomas Jefferson's plan for the creation of new States in what was then known as the Northwestern Territory, several committees of the Congress were appointed, which in 1784 reported a resolution for the division of the ceded and purchased territory into seventeen States, which were to be created in three tiers. The portion east of what was proposed to be called Illinoia was named Saratoga, and beyond it was a territory to which the name of Washington was given. Immediately south of Illinoia and Saratoga was what was then called, lacking a specific name, the Ninth State.
