A 



TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION 



OF THE 



STATE OF OHIO. 



The first purchase of land in the State of Ohio, 

 after the Indian title was extinguished, was 

 made by the Ohio company. On the 27th of 

 November, 1787, Congress made and executed 

 a contract with the agents of the Ohio company 

 for the sale of one million and an half of acres, 

 at the price of one million of dollars, to be paid 

 for in final settlement securities. This tract 

 was bounded on the east by a line called the 

 seventh range which had been previously run ; 

 southerly on the Ohio river ; westerly on the 

 seventeenth range of townships, and to extend 

 so far north, that a line running east to the first 

 boundary, should contain, exclusive of the 

 reservations, the quantity of land contracted 

 for. 



The first regular settlement of this State 

 commenced in the year 1789. A party of about 

 sixty men from New-England, under the super- 

 intendence of General Rufus Putnam, and 

 hired and paid by the company, arrived at the 



