Magazine of western history, illustrated, Vol. I, No. 1, November 1884Various
History
Magazine of western history, illustrated, Vol. I, No. 1, November 1884
Various
Local history -- Periodicals; United States -- History -- Periodicals; West (U.S.) -- History -- Periodicals
It appeared in the newspapers on the twenty-fifth of January,
and read as follows:
INFORMATION.
The subscribers take this method to inform all officers and soldiers
who have served in the late war, and who are by a late ordinance of
the honorable Congress to receive certain tracts of land in the Ohio
country, and also all other good citizens who wish to become
adventurers in that delightful region, that from personal inspection,
together with other incontestible evidences, they are fully satisfied
that the lands in that quarter are of a much better quality than any
other known to the New England people; that the climate, seasons,
products, etc., are in fact equal to the most flattering accounts that
have ever been published of them; that being determined to become
purchasers and to prosecute a settlement in that country, and desirous
of forming a general association with those who entertain the same
ideas, they beg leave to propose the following plan, viz.: That an
association by the name of The Ohio Company be formed of all such as
wish to become purchasers, etc., in that country, who reside in the
commonwealth of Massachusetts only, or to extend to the inhabitants of
other States as shall be agreed on.
That in order to bring such a company into existence the subscribers
propose that all persons who wish to promote the scheme, should meet
within their respective counties, (except in two instances hereinafter
mentioned) at 10 o’clock A. M. on Wednesday, the fifteenth day of
February next, and that each county or meeting there assembled choose
a delegate or delegates to meet at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern in
Boston, on Wednesday, the first day of March next, at 10 o’clock A.
M., then and there to consider and determine upon a general plan of
association for said company; which plan, covenant, or agreement,
being published, any person (under condition therein to be provided)
may, by subscribing his name, become a member of the company.
Then follow the places of meeting:
At Captain Webb’s, in Salem, Middlesex; at Bradish’s, in Cambridge,
Hampshire; at Pomeroy’s, in North Hampton, Plymouth; at Bartlett’s, in
Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket Counties; at Howland’s, in
Barnstable, Bristol; at Crocker’s, in Taunton, York; at Woodbridge’s,
in York, Worcester; at Patch’s, in Worcester, Cumberland and Lincoln;
at Shothick’s, in Falmouth, Berkshire; at Dibble’s, in Lenox.
RUFUS PUTNAM,
BENJAMIN TUPPER.
RUTLAND, January 10, 1786.
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