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Title: The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, Charles, 1855-1942
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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obacco,he ran the lines of Lord Fairfaxs possessions with anaccuracy that has since become proverbial. At nighthe rolled himself in a blanket and lay down on a littlehay or a bearskin, with man, wife, and children, likedogs and cats; and happy was he who got the berthnearest the fire. At Colonel Cresaps he shared the lim-ited accommodations of the place with a band of thirtyIndians coming from war with a single scalp; and foramusement he supplied the liquors necessary to induce awar-dance, which struck the hard-headed young surveyoras highly comical.2 1 The Scotch-Irish of the South. An address at the Scotch-IrishCongress, 1889, by Hon. William Wirt Henry. Proceedings, p. 117. Gooch resigned in 1749. The latter years of his term were embit-tered by his attempts to suppress heterodox opinions, which attemptsbad the usual results. See Lodges English Colonies in America, p. 29. 2 Sparkss Washington, vol. ii., contains Washingtons letters andjournals covering this period of his career. 72
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WASHINGTON AS A 8URVEYOK THE ENGLISH IN THE OHIO COUNTRY In this year 1748, while the rich lands of the gardenof Virginia were being laid off and populated, the enter-prising men of the colony put their heads together tosecure the territory beyond the Alleghanies, but stillwithin the chartered limits of the province. The primemover in the scheme was Thomas Lee, the president ofhis majestys Virginia council, and with him were asso-ciated, among others, Lawrence and Augustine Wash-ington, half-brothers of George. The London partnerwas Thomas Hanbury, a merchant of wealth and influ-ence. Taking the name of the Ohio Company, the as-sociates presented to the king a petition for half a mill-ion acres of land on the south side of the Ohio Kiver,between the Monongahela and the Kanawha rivers, withthe privilege of selecting a portion of the lands on thenorth side. Two hundred thousand acres were to betaken up at once ; one hundred families were to be seatedwithin seven years, and a fort was to

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