. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... yland for thispurpose and for the purpose of trading withthe Indians, and was warmly supported bythe Earl of Halifax. It was named the OhioCompany, and at length succeeded in obtain-ing a favorable charter from the king, who,in March, 1749, ordered the governor ofVirginia to assign to the Ohio Company fivehundred thousand acres of land lying be-tween the Monongahela and Kanawharivers, and along the Ohio The company were required to despatch,within seven year
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... yland for thispurpose and for the purpose of trading withthe Indians, and was warmly supported bythe Earl of Halifax. It was named the OhioCompany, and at length succeeded in obtain-ing a favorable charter from the king, who,in March, 1749, ordered the governor ofVirginia to assign to the Ohio Company fivehundred thousand acres of land lying be-tween the Monongahela and Kanawharivers, and along the Ohio The company were required to despatch,within seven years at least, one hundred fam-iilies to the territory granted them, to locate OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES. 279 without delay at least two-fifths of the landsthey desired to occupy, and to build and gar-rison a fort at their own cost. They weregranted an exemption from quit-rents andother dues for ten years, and this freedom needed for their traffic with the Indians, theOhio Company built a trading-post at WillsCreek, within the limits of Maryland, on thesite of the present city of Cumberland. Hereone of the easiest of the passes over the. FRENCH EXPLORERS BURYING LEADEN PLATES. from taxation was extended by the companyto all who would settle in their domain. A number of Indian traders had locatedthemselves west of the Alleghanies, and inorder to supply these with the articles Alleghanies began, and by means of it thetraders could easily transport their goods tothe Indian country west of the mountains andreturn with the furs their traffic enabled themto collect. 28o THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. Being anxious to explore the country westof the mountains, the company employedChristopher Gist, one of the most experi-enced Indian traders, and instructed him toexamine the western country as far as thefalls of the Ohio, to look for a large tract ofgood level land to mark the passes in the mountains, to trace the courses of the rivers,to count the falls, to observe the strength andnumbers of th
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