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2. Griffin Greene - Wikipedia

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   Griffin Greene (1749–1804) served as a commissary, paymaster, and quartermaster to the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.He was subsequently a pioneer to the Ohio Country, helping establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory.

3. Ephraim Cutler - Wikipedia

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   In September, 1801, Cutler was elected to represent Washington County, Ohio in the House of Representatives of the Northwest Territory at the First Session of the Second Territorial General Assembly convened November 23, 1801 – January 23, 1802, [15] where he drafted the legislation that incorporated the predecessor to Ohio University. [16]

4. Farmer's Castle - Wikipedia

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   Farmer's Castle marker at Belpre, Ohio. Farmer's Castle was a defensive fortification built opposite the mouth of the Little Kanawha River on the Ohio River by a group of pioneers from the Ohio Company of Associates. It was located about 15 miles downriver of Marietta, Ohio, the first European-American settlement in the Northwest Territory. The ...

5. Belpre, Ohio - Wikipedia

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   Farmer's Castle fortification at Belpre during the Northwest Indian War. Belpre (historically spelled Belpré; [5] pronounced / ˈ b ɛ l p r i / BEL-pree [6]) is a city in Washington County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River across from Parkersburg, West Virginia. The population was 6,728 at the 2020 census. Its name derives from ...

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

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   Andrews, Martin R.: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois (1902). Barker, Joseph: Recollections of the First Settlement of Ohio, Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio (1958) original manuscript written late in Joseph Barker's life, prior to his death in 1843.

7. William C. Durant - Wikipedia

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   William Crapo Durant (December 8, 1861 – March 18, 1947) was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, founder of General Motors and co-founder of Chevrolet. He created a system in which a company held multiple marques – each seemingly independent, with different automobile lines – bound under a unified corporate holding ...