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Scioto Company Lands and the New York Financial Shock
The Scioto Company led by Col. William Duer spurred a costly land speculation west of the Ohio River. French buyers in Paris financed deeds to three million acres, while misrepresented maps and fake fertile promises touched off a New York market crash. French settlers later received a 24,000 acre grant but mostly moved to other jobs as Gallipolis declined.
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New York City
United States
Ojo
England
France
New York
Scioto Company
Col
William Duer
United States Board of Treasury
Congress
Col. Duer
Continental Congress
Manasseh Cutler
Ohio River
Duer
Vaneuhers
Ohio Company
Marietta
Pomeroy
Kanawha
Gallipolis
Jackson County
Franklin County
Licking County
Perry
Jackson
Washington
Athens
Morgan
Meigs
Fuskingum
Guernsey
Monroe
Paris
America
American Congress
Scioto
Colonel Duer
Ohio
Fair Haven
Little Sandy River
Galiiipolis