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Ohio Company of Associates
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Ohio_Company_of_Associates
GPTKB entity
Statements (35)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
land company
gptkbp:acquiredBy
gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
gptkb:Ohio_Company
gptkbp:country
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dissolved
1796
gptkbp:foundedBy
gptkb:Benjamin_Tupper
gptkb:Rufus_Putnam
gptkb:Samuel_Holden_Parsons
gptkb:Manasseh_Cutler
gptkbp:foundedIn
1786
gptkbp:headquartersLocation
gptkb:Marietta,_Ohio
gptkbp:historicalPeriod
post-American Revolutionary War
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Ohio Company of Associates
gptkbp:landPurchaseSize
about 1,000,000 acres
gptkbp:notableEvent
establishment of Marietta, Ohio
purchase of land from the federal government
gptkbp:notableMember
gptkb:James_Mitchell_Varnum
gptkb:Winthrop_Sargent
gptkb:Benjamin_Tupper
gptkb:Rufus_Putnam
gptkb:Samuel_Holden_Parsons
gptkb:Manasseh_Cutler
gptkb:Richard_Platt
gptkbp:purpose
purchase and settlement of land in the Northwest Territory
gptkbp:relatedTo
gptkb:American_Revolutionary_War
gptkb:Northwest_Ordinance
Continental Army veterans
gptkbp:servesArea
gptkb:Northwest_Territory
gptkbp:settlementFounded
gptkb:Marietta,_Ohio
gptkb:Belpre,_Ohio
gptkb:Waterford,_Ohio
gptkbp:significance
first organized American settlement in the Northwest Territory
helped open the Northwest Territory to settlement
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Marietta,_Northwest_Territory
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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