Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-02-06
History of the Ohio Company,
and its Purchase.
COPIED FOR THE JOURNAL.
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was unanimously
Resolced, That three directors should
be appointed for the Company, and
that it shall be their duty immediate.
ly to make application to the Honour
able Congress for private purchase
of lands. Generals Samuel II. Par
sons, Rufus Putnam and the Rev.
Manassah Cutler, were unanimously
chosen.
At meeting of the directors and
agents of the Ohio Company at Bos-
ton, August Doth, 1887, the following
report was received from the Rev.
Manassah Cutler:
That in consequence of resolves of
Congress, of the 23d and 9th July
last, he agreed on the conditions of
a contract, with the Board of Treasu-
ry of the United States, for particu-
lar tract of land, containing in the
whole, as, much as the company's
funds will pay for, should the SUBJ
Scriptions amount to one million of
dollars, agreeably to the articles of
association, at one dollar per acre,
from which price is to be deducted
one third of dollar for bad lands,
and defraying the expenses of sur
veying, DC, DC.
That this land be bounded on the
East by the Western boundary of the
seventh range of townships; South
by the Ohio; West by meridian line
drawn through the Western cape Of
the Great Kanawha river, and extend
ing so far North, that due East and
West line from the seventh range of
townships, to said meridian line, shall
include the whole.
This tract to be extended SO far
Nertherly, as to comprehend within
its limits, exclusively of the above
purchase, one lot of six hundred
and forty acres, in each township, for
the purposes of religion, an equal
quantity for the support of schools,
and two townships of twenty three
thousand and forty acres each, for
an university, to be as near the center
of the whole tract as may be, which
lots and townships are given by Con-
gress, and appropriated for the above
uses, forever:
Also, three lots of six hundred
and forty acres each, in every town.
ship, reserved for the future dispo-
sition of Congress: and the county
lands of the military associates, to
be comprised within the whole tract:
provided they do not exceed one
seventh part thereof.
That five hundred thousand dol
lars be paid to the Board of Treasury,
upon closing the contract.
In consideration of which, 3 right
of entry and occupancy for guam
tity of land equal to this sum, at the
price stipulated, be given. And,
that as soon as the Geographer, or
some proper officer of the United
States, shall have surveyed and as
certained the quantity OF the whole,
the sum of five hundred thousand
dollars more be paid, amounting in
the total, to one million of dollars,
for which the company are to be put
in possession of the other moiety
Of the lands above described, and
receive deed of the whole from the
said Board of Treasury. Whereupon,
it was
RESOLVED, That the proceedings OF
Mr.. Cutler be fully ratified, and con-
firmed.
Adjourned till August Both, when
the following resolutions were agreed
to:
That five thousand seven hundred
and sixty acres of land near the con-
huence of the Muskingum and Ohio
rivers, be reserved for q city and
commons.
That within the said tract, and in
the most eligible situation, there be
appropriated for city, sixty squares
of three hundred and sixty feet, by
three hundred and sixty feet each, in
an oblong form, of ten squares in
front and six in depth, with streets
of one hundred feet in width through
each. That four of said squares be
reserved for public uses, and the re
fifty-six divided into house
lots. That each square contain
twelve house lots of sixty feet front
and one hundred feet depth, and six
lots of fifty-three and three tenths
feet, by one hundred and eighty feet,
amounting in the total to one thou
sand and eight lots.
at meeting of the directors and
agents, in Boston, on the 21st of No
vember, 1887, it was
Resolved, That the lands of the
Ohio Company be allotted and divl-
ded in the following manner; any
thing to the contrary in former reso-
Iutions, Notwithstanding, viz: -Four
thousand acres near the confluence
of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers,
for city and commons, and contigu-
Gus to this, one thousand lots OF
eight acres each, amounting to eight
thousand acres.
Resolved, That the city at the
mouth of the MuskiDgum river De SO
laid out into oblong squares, as that
each house lot shall consist OF ninety
feet in front, and one hundred and1
eighty feet in depth, with an alley of
ten feet in width through each square
in its oblong direction; and that the
center street, crossing the city, be
one hundred and fifty feet wide, any
thing to the contrary in former reso
lutions, Notwithstanding
RESOLVED, That the eight acre lots
be surveyed.
November 23d, 1887.
For the purpose of carrying into
effect the surveys,
ORDERED, That four surveyors be
under the direction of the
hereinafter named.
That Col. Ebenezer Sproat, Mr.
Anselm Tupper, Mr.. John Matthews