Manuscripts and Documents of the Ohio Company of Associates 1783-1817

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Manuscripts and Documents of the Ohio Company of Associates 1783-1817

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The Manuscripts and Documents of the Ohio Company of Associates is a collection of business documents, land records, and correspondence related to the earliest settlement of Marietta and the Old Northwest Territory. It includes the original book of minutes of the Associates, record books listing shareholders and their land allotments, survey plats, and the surveyors' field notes. Part of the collection was bequeathed by William Rufus Putnam, the grandson of Rufus Putnam, and part was deeded to Marietta College by Agnes Ward White, whose ancestor, Nahum Ward, owned a controlling interest in the Company's assets.

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Ohio Company (1786-1796)

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Land company founded in Boston in 1786 and organized for the purchase and settlement of lands on the Ohio River. In 1787, the Continental Congress of the United States contracted to sell a large tract of land in southeastern Ohio to the company, an agreement known as the Ohio Company Purchase, with the company ultimately acquiring ca. 1,128,168 acres in two seperate purchases. In 1796 the company divided its shares and ceased to be a significant land company. From the description of ...

Ohio Company of Associates

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The Ohio Company of Associates grew out of a petition to "his Excellency, the President and Honorable Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled," framed by Brigadier - General Rufus Putnam, acting for a group of officers encamped at Newburgh, New York, in the last year of the Revolution (1783). Signed by 288 officers "in the Continental line of the army," the petition reminded Congress of its promise of "certain Grants of Land" to officers and soldiers who serv...

Putnam, Rufus, 1738-1824

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Putnam commanded the defensive works around Boston in 1775 and later served under Gates against Burgoyne. From the description of Letter, 1781 March 13, Boston [Mass.], [to] Major General Heath, West Point. (New England Historic Genealogical Society). WorldCat record id: 50844673 Continental army officer. From the description of Papers of Rufus Putnam, 1781-1801. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71061883 Co-founder of Ohio University; trustee from 1804 to ...