James O'Fallon letter, 1791.
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South-Carolina Yazoo Company
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The South Carolina Yazoo Company was one of three companies organized in 1789 to purchase from Georgia a part of its Western territory. Alexander Moultrie, Isaac Huger, and William Clay Snipes were three of the company's charter members. The money in payment was refused by the Treasurer of Georgia. The three companies demanded that Georgia convey the land to them. In 1796, the South Carolina Yazoo company instituted suit in the U.S. Supreme Court against Georgia. The company lost the suit and th...
O'Fallon, James, 1749-1794
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Army officer. From the description of Letter of James O'Fallon, 1790. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454777 James O'Fallon (1749-1794) was born in Ireland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He arrived in North Carolina in 1774 and served in the Revolution, first as a soldier and later as a senior Surgeon. After the war he moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where he practiced medicine and became involved in various state politics. In 1790 he was appointe...
Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818
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Surveyor; noted Indian fighter in the American midwest in the latter half of the 18th century. From the description of Documents, 1778-1818. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28287330 American Revolutionary Colonel in the Old Northwest. Clark first came to Detroit from Cleveland in 1817, and was followed by his parents in a commercial fisherman and deputy collector of customs in China, Mich. (from M.P.C., I, 501-507: Clark's "Recollections".) (blue ...
