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  2. List of early settlers of Marietta, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of early settlers of Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent settlement created by United States citizens after the establishment of the Northwest Territory in 1787. The settlers included soldiers of the American Revolutionary War and members of the Ohio Company of Associates .

  3. History of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    This image depicts the landing of General Rufus Putnam and the first settlers at Marietta, Ohio in 1788. Rufus Putnam by James Sharples Jr. In 1776, the Continental Army had encircled the British garrison in Boston, but could not dislodge it, and a long stalemate ensued.

  4. List of Jamestown colonists - Wikipedia

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    Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 (Vintage, 2012) Warren M. Billings (Editor), The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) James Horn, A Land as God Made It (Perseus Books, 2005)

  5. John Leavitt (Ohio settler) - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Western Reserve in 1826. Capt. John Wheeler Leavitt (1755–1815), born in Suffield, Connecticut, was an early settler of Ohio's Western Reserve lands, where members of his family had bought large tracts from the state of Connecticut, and where Capt. Leavitt became an early innkeeper, politician and landowner in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio.

  6. Ohio Company of Associates - Wikipedia

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    The second contract was an option to buy all the land between the Ohio and the Scioto rivers and the western boundary line of the Ohio Company's tract, extending north of the tenth survey township from the Ohio, this tract being preempted by Manasseh Cutler and Winthrop Sargent for themselves and others for the Scioto Company. Cutler's original ...

  7. Mary Campbell (colonial settler) - Wikipedia

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    Campbell's return to her family in Pennsylvania in 1764 was a result of British military pressure on the Native Americans of southern Ohio by troops under Colonel Henry Bouquet. [ citation needed ] Over two days, August 5 and August 6, Bouquet's forces prevailed against Native American irregulars in the Battle of Bushy Run , a key battle that ...

  8. Ohio Lands - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Ohio Lands. The Ohio Lands were the several grants, tracts, districts and cessions which make up what is now the U.S. state of Ohio.The Ohio Country was one of the first settled parts of the Midwest, and indeed one of the first settled parts of the United States beyond the original Thirteen Colonies.

  9. Symmes Purchase - Wikipedia

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    Map of Ohio showing the Symmes Purchase. The Symmes Purchase, also known as the Miami Purchase, was an area of land totaling roughly 311,682 acres (487.003 sq mi; 1,261.33 km 2) [1] in what is now Hamilton, Butler, and Warren counties of southwestern Ohio, purchased by Judge John Cleves Symmes of New Jersey in 1788 from the Continental Congress.