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Series I. Case of the Ohio Company, 1752-1762
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Scope and Content Notes: The Case of the Ohio Company was originally prepared by George Mercer in October 1760 for the Committee of the Ohio Company. The
Case was meant to document the company’s activities to demonstrate that it had developed and fortified trading routes in the Ohio territory in compliance with its 1748 land grant. The
Case includes the journals of Christopher Gist (1706-1759), an agent of the company hired to explore the Crown’s land grant. In 1750, he explored the Ohio territory from the site of a Lenape (Delaware) village at the headwaters of the Ohio to the confluence of the Miami and Ohio rivers. The
Case also includes the negotiations at Loggstown in 1752 between Colonel Joshua Fry representing the Colony of Virginia, Gist as an agent of the Ohio Company, and tribal leaders. The Gist journals and Council at Loggstown documents provide a unique record of early interactions with Native Americans during this period of British expansion that precipitated the French and Indian War. Unbracketed page numbers have been assigned by the archival processor, with the exception of
The Appendix to the Case, in which manuscript pages were numbered by the author.
Page numbers in brackets indicate the location of the transcription in Mulkearn’s
George Mercer Papers. Oversized items in this series are located in Box 1.
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Box 1
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1-4 |
Council at Loggstown p 1-4, June 1, 1752
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5 |
Council at Loggstown fragments, June 1, 1752
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6-8 |
Case of the Ohio Company [LM p 233-237, 243-245], 1754
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9-18 |
Case of the Ohio Company [LM p 49-53, 57-73, 75-82, 84, 86-93], 1762
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19-29 |
Resolutions of the Ohio Company p 1-6, 8-9, 11-13, 15-19, 1749-1763
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30-35 |
Resolutions of the Ohio Company fragment [LM 247, 249, 255, 257, 259, 261, 253, 265, 267,269, 287,288], 1949-1763
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36-45 |
Gist Journal p 1-10, ca. 1750
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46 |
Gist Journal fragment, ca. 1750
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47 |
Gist Journal, bound copy, ca. 1750
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48-57 |
Appendix to the Case of the Ohio Company p 1-18, 21-22, 1745-1753
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58 |
Appendix to the Case of the Ohio fragment, undated
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59 |
Appendix to the Case of the Ohio Company, 1777-1778
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60 |
Record of Acreage of land owned by the Ohio Company and others [LM p289-290], 1747-1753
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61 |
Acts of the Ohio Company [LM p153-165], April 17, 1759
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62 |
Resolution of the Committee of the Ohio Company [LM p296], July 4, 1763
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63 |
Boundaries proposed by the Ohio Company [LM p229-232], February 26, 1768
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64 |
Ohio Company Orders, 1753-1761
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65-67 |
Ohio Company Orders [LM p140-147, 152-153], 1749-1753, 1761
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