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Map of Ohio showing the boundaries of the Ohio Company Purchase on the lower right. Rufus Putnam Pioneer wagon. The Ohio Company of Associates, also known as the Ohio Company, was a land company whose members are today credited with becoming the first non-Native American group to permanently settle west of the Allegheny mountains.
The Ohio Country, showing present-day U.S. state boundaries. The Ohio Company, formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country (approximately the present U.S. state of Ohio) and to trade with the Native Americans.
The Ohio Company Land Office is one of the original buildings of the city of Marietta, Ohio, United States. The Office is listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places and as a contributing property to the Marietta Historic District. The Land Office was built after Ohio Company of Associates landed at Marietta in 1788.
The Donation Tract lies in southern Ohio. The Donation Tract was a land tract in southern Ohio that was established by the Congress in the late 18th century to buffer Ohio Company lands against local indigenous people. Congress gave 100-acre (0.40 km 2) lots to men who settled on the land.
In 1787 the Ohio Company of Associates contracted to buy 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km 2) of land in southern Ohio for one million dollars.They ended up only being able to raise $500,000, and so were sold a tract of 750,000 acres (3,000 km 2), plus lands set aside for support of local schools, a college, and the clergy, for a total tract size of 913,833 acres (3,698.15 km 2) at the confluence of ...
The Ohio Company of Associates purchased a land tract adjacent to the west of the Seven Ranges in 1787 and began settlement and surveying in 1788. In 1792 Congress donated a tract of land to the company known as the Donation Tract, and the company purchased additional lands known as the Second Purchase or Purchase on the Muskingum.