Ohio Company of Associates

For the earlier Ohio Company of Virginia, see Ohio Company.
Map of Ohio showing the boundaries of the Ohio Company Purchase on the lower right.
Rufus Putnam
Pioneer wagon

The Ohio Company of Associates, also known as the Ohio Company, was a land company whose members are today credited with becoming the first non-Native American group to permanently settle west of the Allegheny mountains. In 1788 they established Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent settlement of the new United States in the newly organized Northwest Territory.[1]

  1. ^ Hubbard, Robert Ernest. General Rufus Putnam: George Washington's Chief Military Engineer and the "Father of Ohio," pp. 2-4, 80, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4766-7862-7.