Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . .The English claimed that in ad-dition to their charter rights tothe Ohio country, their title asagainst the French was con-firmed by the treaties with theIndians made at Lancaster (Pa.)in 1744 between commissionersfrom Pennsylvania, Marylandand Virginia and the Iroquoistribes, whereby the latter, forfour hundred pounds, gave upall right and title to the landwest of the Alleghany moun-tains, even to the Mississippi,which lands, according to Iro-quois traditions, had been con-It mattered not that their treaty wasrepudiated by the tribes of Delawares
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . .The English claimed that in ad-dition to their charter rights tothe Ohio country, their title asagainst the French was con-firmed by the treaties with theIndians made at Lancaster (Pa.)in 1744 between commissionersfrom Pennsylvania, Marylandand Virginia and the Iroquoistribes, whereby the latter, forfour hundred pounds, gave upall right and title to the landwest of the Alleghany moun-tains, even to the Mississippi,which lands, according to Iro-quois traditions, had been con-It mattered not that their treaty wasrepudiated by the tribes of Delawares, Shawnees, Miamis, Min-goes and others occupying the territory in question. The Iroquoistitle was good enough to get in on, and under cover of thesecharter and treaty titles a company of Virginians organized theOhio Company. The initiators and charter members were JohnHanbury, a Quaker merchant in London; Thomas Lee, mem-ber of his Majestys Council and one of the Judges of the Su-preme Court of Judicature in his Majestys Colony of Virginia;. LAWRENCE WASHINGTON. quered by their forefathers. Washington and Ohio. 481 Colonel Thomas Cressap, Lawrence Washington, AugustusWashington, George Fairfax and others, all of his MajestysColony of Virginia. These enterprising gentlemen petitioned the king that hisMajesty will be graciously pleased to encourage their under-taking by giving instructions to the Governor of Virginia togrant to them and such others as they shall admit as their as-sociates a tract of 500,000 acres of land betwext Romanettes andBuffalos Creek on the south side of the River Aligane(Allegheny), otherwise the Ohio, and betwext the two Creeksand the Yellow Creek on the north side of the River or in suchother parts of the west of the said mountains as shall be adjudgedmost proper by the petitioners for that purpose, etc. This landlay, in modern geography, in the Ohio Valley between the Monon-gahela and Kanawha Rivers. The land might be chosen on eitherside of the Ohio
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