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Ohio company and early Northwest Territory settlers history
The piece recounts the rise of the Ohio Company, land acquisitions, treaties with Native nations, and early governance under the Northwest Ordinance. It details the Marietta settlement, first laws, and the transition from frontier liberty to structured territorial government, including key figures and dates. It also touches Napoleon Bonaparte’s marriage and imperial diplomacy with Russia and Austria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Monthly
HISTORY
OHIG
New Encxanp
Pennsylvania
captain Smith
Virginia
Ohio
New England
Washington
Britain
Egypt
paetty
England
Ohio company
United States
congress
trea
Fort M’Intosh
Pittsburgh
George Clark
Richard Buller
Arthur Lee
Cuyahoga river
Tuscarawasi
Muskingum
M’Intosh
Great Miami
United States’ commissioners
Samuel I. Parsons
Putnam
Tupper
Massachusetts
Boston
Ohio river
Hockhocking
Danvers
Hartford
Connecticut
Marietta
Rufus Putnam
Peletiah White
Amos Porter
Phineas Coburn
Allen Duval
Benjamin Shaw
Washington co
Wezekiah Flint
Cincinnati
Jervase Cutler
Nashville
Marietta point
Jonathan Meigs
Meigs
north-western territory
Mississippi
Indiana
Iinois
Michigan
house of representatives
legislative council
Arthur St. Clair
Samuel IL. Parsons
James M. Varnum
Scioto river
Cuyahoga
Benjamin Tupper
BONAPARTE
Admiral Cockburn
London
St.elena
Northumberland
Napoleon Bonapare
Maria Louisa
Russia
Birfurth
Alexander
France
Europe
Josephine
Ann
Paris
Josephine horse
Tuilleries
himsellf
Eugene Beauharnois
Austria
Francis