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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio Company, the (search)
d for settlements. On the night of Jan. 9, 1786, Gen. Rufus Putnam and Gen. Benjamin Tupper formed a plan for a company of soldiers of the Revolution to undertake the task of settlement on the Ohio River. The next day they issued a call for such persons who felt disposed to engage in the enterprise to meet at Boston on March 1, by delegates chosen in the several counties in Massachusetts. They met, and formed The Ohio Company. It was composed of men like Rufus Putnam, Abraham Whipple, J. M. Varnum, Samuel Holden Parsons, Benjamin Tupper, R. J. Meigs, whom Americans think of with gratitude. They purchased a large tract of land on the Ohio River; and on April 7, 1788, the first detachment of settlers sent by the company, forty-eight in number—men, women, and children—seated themselves Site of Marietta in 1781 near the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, athwart the great war-path of the fierce Northwestern tribes when they made their bloody incursions to the frontiers o
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio, (search)
Antoinette, Queen of France......July 2, 1788 Gen. Arthur St. Clair arrives at Fort Harmar as governor of Northwestern Territory......July 9, 1788 Washington county formed......July 12, 1788 Governor St. Clair establishes civil government......July 15, 1788 Losantiville, afterwards Cincinnati, laid out......August, 1788 First court held in Ohio at Marietta......Sept. 2, 1788 Act confirming the territorial government passed first session, first Congress......1789 Gen. James M. Varnum, pioneer of the State, and a judge of Northwestern Territory, dies at Marietta......1789 Hamilton county formed......Jan. 2, 1790 Fort Washington erected at Cincinnati......1790 First Masonic lodge of the West established at Marietta......1790 Whites at Big Bottom, Morgan county, massacred by Indians......1790 Gen. Joseph Harmar's expedition against the Miami Indians......Sept. 30, 1790 Partially defeated near the Miami villages, the expedition fails......Oct. 22, 17
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Varnum, James Mitchell 1748- (search)
Varnum, James Mitchell 1748- Military officer; born in Dracut, Mass., Dec. 17, 1748; graduated at Rhode Island College (now Brown University) in 1769, and became a lawyer in East Greenwich, R. I. In 1784 he was commander of the Kentish Guards, from the ranks of which came General Greene and about thirty other officers of the Revolution. He was made colonel of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment in January, 1775, and soon afterwards entered the Continental army, becoming brigadier-general in Febr, 1777. He was at Red Bank (Fort Mercer), in command of all the troops on the Jersey side of the Delaware, when the British took Philadelphia; and it was under his direction that Major Thayer made his gallant defence of Fort Mifflin (q. v.). General Varnum was at Valley Forge the following winter; took part in the battle of Monmouth (June 28, 1778) ; joined Sullivan in his expedition to Rhode Island, serving under the immediate orders of Lafayette, and resigned in 1779, when he was chosen major
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Varnum, Joseph Bradley 1818-1874 (search)
m, Joseph Bradley 1818-1874 Lawyer; born in Washington, D. C., June 9, 1818; graduated at Yale College in 1838; admitted to the bar and followed his profession in Baltimore for several years; removed to New York City and there obtained a large practice; member of the New York legislature in 1849-51 and speaker in the latter year. His publications include The seat of government of the United States, and The Washington sketch-book. He died in Astoria, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1874. Legislator; born in Dracut, Mass., Jan. 29, 1750; brother of James M. Varnum; was an active patriot during the Revolution, both in the council and in the field; member of Congress in 1795-1811; speaker of the tenth and the eleventh Congresses; and United States Senator in 1811-17. He had been made major-general of militia at an early day, and at the time of his death, in Dracut, Mass., Sept. 21, 1821, was the oldest officer of that rank in Massachusetts, and also senior member of the United States Senate.