[Part of the Ohio River, with notes by G. Mercer relating to the Ohio Company's lands] / G. Mercer. [ca. 1752]
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Ohio Company (1747-1779)
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The Ohio Company, founded in 1747, represented the trading and land prospecting interests of a handful of Virginia planters. Thomas Lee was appointed president, Nathaniel Chapman served as treasurer, and John Mercer was both secretary and general council. In that year, John Mercer's son, George Mercer, was appointed the company's representative in England. In 1748 the British Crown approved a land grant to the company to be administered by the Colony of Virginia. The grant covered the Ohio terri...
Mercer, George, 1733-1784.
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The Ohio Land Company of Virginia, organized by Thomas Lee, Lawrence Washington, George Fairfax and others, and later joined by John Mercer, George Mason, Robert Dinwiddie and others, petitioned the British government for a grant of 500,000 acres in the Ohio area between the mouth of the Monongahela and Kentucky rivers, including the area known as Kentucky. It fostered the exploration and settlement of Kentucky. George Mason (1725-1792) was admitted to a full partnership...
