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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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on, who was much interested inthe scheme. But in spite of Washingtonsuntiring efforts the petition came to naught,for Congress at that time did not have aclear title to the Western region. Three years later, in 1786, when thedifferent States and Indian tribes claimingthe Western territory had made satisfactorycessions of their claims to Congress, andthat body had adopted plans for surveyingthe land in ranges, the idea of founding acolony on the Ohio was again presented tothe Revolutionary officers by GeneralBenjamin Tupper and General RufusPutnam, two of the chief promoters of thepetition of 1783. A short notice styled In-formation was published by them in thenewspapers of Massachusetts, in which allofficers and soldiers of the late war, andall other good citizens who wished to beadventurers in the delightful region westof the Alleghenies, were requested to meetin their respective counties to elect dele-gates to a convention which would be heldon the first of March, 1786, at the Bunch
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VI 3 %■3 43o3 6gS NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE of Grapes Tavern in Boston, for the purposeof organizing a company to make a settle-ment on the Ohio. As a result of this call representativesof eight counties came together, and aftera discussion of three days an associationof a thousand shares was reported, eachshare consisting of one thousand dollars incontinental certificates, which were thenthe equivalent of one hundred and twenty-five dollars in gold, with a further liabilityto pay ten dollars in specie to meet the ex-penses of the agency. By the end of a yeartwo hundred and fifty shares had been sold,and the success of the enterprise was assured.It now seemed advisable to make applica-tion to Congress for a purchase of land,and one of the directors of the company,General Samuel Parsons, was sent to NewYork for this purpose. He arrived on theninth of May, the day on which an ordi-nance for the government of the North-west Territory had been read for the sec-ond time. When General Parsons

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