. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. nowfour-and-thirty years old, of Connecticut stock, who had justbecome known as one of the Hartford wits, and the authorof The Vision of Columbus. Sailing from New York, hereached Havre on June 24, 1788, and was soon at his task inParis. In what this agent did, he may have exceeded theauthority committed to him, and in such acts his principalsare relieved from complete responsibility for what next year, 1789, Barlow formed a c
. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. nowfour-and-thirty years old, of Connecticut stock, who had justbecome known as one of the Hartford wits, and the authorof The Vision of Columbus. Sailing from New York, hereached Havre on June 24, 1788, and was soon at his task inParis. In what this agent did, he may have exceeded theauthority committed to him, and in such acts his principalsare relieved from complete responsibility for what next year, 1789, Barlow formed a company in Paris, andsold to it three million acres on the Ohio, west of the seven-teenth range. The payments for it were to run in part till Note. — The map on the following pages is from a map, Plan des Achats des Compagnies deIOhio el dit Sciofn, grave par P. F. Tardieu, and used by Barlow in Paris to advance his decep-tive measures. It represents the Seven Ranges and the lands of the Ohio Company as cleared and inhabited, and places the Premiere Ville as without the bounds of the OhioCompany, when it was within them. Marietta is called
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