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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 Admitting Ohio Co. as co-purchaser of land (c/s Wharton, Pownall & Walpole)

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05311 Author/Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 Place Written: s.l. Type: Document signed Date: 1770/05/07 Pagination: 2 items Height: 30.5 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Signed by Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Wharton, Thomas Pownall and Thomas Walpole. The document admits the Ohio Company as additional co-purchaser for a tract of land "for a new province on the Ohio." The manuscript states how the land will be divided. (The land being purchased is now in the state of Indiana.) Accompanied by a manuscript sale announcement for several thousand acres "situated on the River Ohio, a little above the River Kentucke [sic]."

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Wharton, Samuel, 1732-1800
Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805
Walpole, Thomas, fl. 1770

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