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LAND RECORDS

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Ohio Company Land Office - Marietta, Ohio
Historical Collections of Ohio
Henry, Howe, 1888

Ohio Company's Purchase [MAP] is a body of land containing about 1,500,000 acres; including, however, the donation tract, school lands, etc., lying along the Ohio river; and including Meigs, nearly all of Athens, and a considerable part of Washington and Gallia counties. This tract was purchased of the general government in the year 1787, by Manasseh Cutler and Winthrop Sargeant, from the neighborhood of Salem, in by Massachusetts, agents for the "Ohio Company," so called, which had been then formed in Massachusetts for the purpose of a settlement in the Ohio country.  Only 964,285 acres were ultimately paid for, and of course patented.  This body of land was then apportioned out into 817 shares of 1,173 acres each, and a town lot of one-third of an acre to each share.  These shares were made up to each proprietor in tracts, one of 640 acres, one of 262, one of 160, one of 100, one of 8, and another of 3 acres, besides the before-mentioned town lot.

 Besides every section 16, set apart, as elsewhere, for the support of schools, every section 29 is appropriated for the support of religious institutions. In addition to which were also granted two six miles square townships for the use of a college.

 But unfortunately for the Ohio Company, owing to their want of topographical knowledge of the country, the body of land selected by them, with some partial exceptions, is the most hilly and sterile of any tract of similar extent in the State.

The Donation Tract [MAP] is a body of 100,000 acres set off in the northern limits of the Ohio Company's tract, and granted to them by Congress, provided they should obtain one actual settler upon each hundred acres thereof within five years from the date of the-grant; and that so much of the 100,000 acres aforesaid, as should not thus be taken up, shall revert to the general government. This tract may, in some respects, be considered a part of the Ohio Company's purchase. It is situated in the northern limits of Washington county. It lies in an oblong shape, extending nearly 17 miles from east to west, and about 71 from north to south.

Wikipedia Encyclopedia
In 1788, General Rufus Putnam laid out the plans for Marietta, the first permanent settlement in the present state of Ohio. Colonists were sent out by the Ohio Company from New England to Marietta. The First Purchase was in Washington, Meigs, Gallia, Lawrence and Athens Counties.

In 1792, a second purchase was made of over 200,000 acres in Morgan, Hocking, Vinton and Athens Counties, but in 1796, the Ohio Company divided its shares and ceased to be a genuine land company.
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Early Meigs County Deeds (Some Washington County Names Included)
This article covers the subjects of the following:
A Review of Some Important Matters
The Price of Public Lands Reduced
An Injustice to the Ohio Company
The Rise of Securities
Forfeited Shares in the Ohio Company’s Stock Sold to the Trustees of the Scioto Company
Plans for a Final Settlement with Congress
Trouble Caused by Speculative Stockholders.
They Desire that the Contract of Purchase be Forfeited
The Directors at Philadelphia in 1792.
Their Petition to Congress
Critical Condition of the Company’s Affairs
Effect of the Indian War
Failure of and Loss by the Treasurer, Richard Platt.
The Scioto Company Fails to Meet Its Obligation
Impossibility of Carrying Out the Original Contract
The Only Hope of the Company and Its Settlement, a Release
Favorable Action of Congress
Three Patents Issued to Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler, Robert Oliver and Griffin Greene, as Trustees of the Ohio Company
Boundanies of the Purchase
The Donation Tract
Beneficent Policy of the Company.
Division of the Lands
Eleven Hundred and Seventy-three to Each of Eight Hundred and Seventeen Shares
Names of the Members of the Ohio Company
Number of Shares Owned by Each Person
Land Ordinance of 1785 (What is it?  What does it mean?)
     Clap, Daniel
     Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823
     Edes, Peter, 1756-1840
     Ohio Company, 1786-1796
     Platt, Richard, 1755-1830
     Putnam, Rufus, 1738-1824
     Williams, Abraham
     Bullard, Eleazer
     Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823
     Deeds
     Donation tract - Ohio
     Fearing, Paul, 1762-1822
     Land grants - Ohio
     Ohio Company (1786-1796) - Accounts
     Ohio Company (1786-1796) - Agents
     Ohio Company (1786-1796) - Land divisions
     Ohio Company (1786-1796) - Proprietors
     Ohio Company (1786-1796) - Proportional dividends
     Plummer, [Unknown]
     Putnam, Rufus, 1738-1824
     Surveying - Southeast Ohio
     Tupper, Benjamin, 1738-1792
     White, Maj. Haffield, 1739-1818
     Williams, Abraham
   A MUST READ To Understand Early Land Grants & Deeds.
Ohio Company Land Grants of 1793 & Stockholders of 1795 (From The Original Proceedings of The Ohio Company)
     Gives Description, Acres, Range, Twp., Section, and Lot #'s.
Washington County 1875 Atlas   LOOK-UPS ONLY - Debbie Noland Nitsche
     Each map gives land owners names, township #, range #, section, & acres owned in each township.  Some maps are scanned on my computer.  Because they are big maps, each twp. is scanned into 2 parts.  Will send GIF file of township maps by request, via email attachments.  --- October 2007: Ancestry.com has added this Atlas to their database.  Must be a subscriber to view the maps.
     Dye Family Land Records
     Smith Land Records
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READING EARLY LAND PATENTS & DEEDS
Ever find yourself in a dilly trying to figure out those early land patents and deeds??  This might help in figuring out which township in  Washington County, Ohio land was purchased. -- Remember boundries changed various times.  

BARLOW TOWNSHIP --- Township 3, Range 10.

BELPRE TOWNSHIP --- Township 1, Ranges 9 & 10.  Township 2, Range 10.

DECATUR TOWNSHIP --- Township 6, Range 11.

DUNHAM TOWNSHIP --- Townships 1 & 2, Ranges 9 & 10.

FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP --- Township 7, Range 11 and Township 3 Range 10.

FEARING TOWNSHIP --- Township 3, Range 8.

GRANDVIEW TOWNSHIP --- Township 2 Range 5

INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP --- Township 2, Range 6.

LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP --- Township 3, Range 7.

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP --- Township 4, Range 7.

LUDLOW TOWNSHIP --- Township 3 Range 6

MARIETTA TOWNSHIP --- Twps. 1, 2, & 3 - Range 8 & Townships 2 & 3 - Range 9

HARMAR VILLAGE [MARIETTA TOWNSHIP] --- Township 1, Range 8.

MUSKINGUM TOWNSHIP --- Township 2 & 3.  Range 8 & 9

NEWPORT TOWNSHIP --- Township 1, Range 6 and Township 2, Range 7

PALMER TOWNSHIP --- Township 8, Range 11

SALEM TOWNSHIP --- Township 4, Range 8

UNION TOWNSHIP --- Township 3, Range 9

WARREN TOWNSHIP --- Township 1, Range 9 and Township 2 Range 9

WATERFORD TOWNSHIP --- Township 5, Range 10

WATERTOWN TOWNSHIP --- Township 4, Range 10

WESLEY TOWNSHIP --- Township 7, Ranges 11 & 12.  Township 8 Range 11

 

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