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See also:OHIO See also:COMPANY , a name of two 18th See also:century companies. organized for the colonization of the Ohio Valley. The first Ohio Company was organized in 1749, partly to aid in securing for the See also:English See also:control of the valley, then in dispute between See also:England and See also:France, and partly as a commercial project for tirade with the See also:Indians. The company was composed of Virginians, including See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee (d. 1750) and the two See also:brothers of See also:George See also:Washington, See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence (who succeeded to the management upon the See also:death of Lee) and See also:Augustine; and of Englishmen, including See also:John Hanbury, a wealthy See also:London See also:merchant. George II. sanctioned a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant to the company of 500,000 acres generally N.W. of the Ohio, and to the eastward, between the See also:Monongahela and the Kanawha See also:rivers, but the grant was never actually issued. In 1750-1751 See also:Christopher Gist, a skilful woodsman and surveyor, explored for the company the Ohio Valley as far as the mouth of the Scioto See also:river. In 1752 the company had a pathway blazed between the small fortified posts at Will's See also:Creek (See also:Cumberland), See also:Maryland, and at Redstone Creek (See also:Brownsville), See also:Pennsylvania, which it had established in 1750; but it was finally merged in the See also:Walpole Company (an organization in which See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin was interested), which in 1772 had received from the See also:British See also:government a grant of a large See also:tract lying along the See also:southern See also:bank of the Ohio as far See also:west as the mouth of the Scioto river. The See also:War of See also:Independence interrupted colonization and nothing was accomplished.
The second company, the Ohio Company of Associates, was formed at See also:Boston on the 3rd of See also:March 1786., The leaders in the See also:movement were See also:General See also:Rufus See also:Putnam, Benjamin See also:Tupper (1738-1792), See also:Samuel See also:Holden See also:Parsons (1737-1789) and See also:Manasseh See also:Cutler. Dr Cutler was selected tonegotiate with See also:Congress, and seems to have helped to secure the See also:incorporation in the See also:Ordinance for the government of the See also:North-West Territory of the paragraphs which prohibited See also:slavery and provided for public See also:education and for the support of the See also:ministry. Cutler's See also:original intention was to buy for the Ohio Company only about 1,500,000 acres, but on the 27th of See also:July Congress authorized a grant of about 5,000,000 acres of See also:land for $3,500,000; a reduction of one-third was allowed for See also:bad tracts, and it was also provided that the lands could be paid for in See also:United States securities.
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