Rufus Putnam
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Rufus Putnam was an American military officer who fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. As an organizer of the Ohio Company of Associates, he was instrumental in
Portrait miniature by John Trumbull, c. 1790
Gen. Rufus Putnam at center-rear
View of the West Point area from Fort Putnam.
Putnam's house in Rutland, Massachusetts, still stands and is now a B&B.
Ohio Company of Associates
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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
Rufus Putnam
…May 4, 1824) was an American military officer who fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. As an organizer of the Ohio Company of Associates, he was instrumental in the initial colonization by the United States of former Native American, English, and French lands in the Northwest Territory…
20th-century artist’s impression of a pioneer wagon bound for the Ohio country in the late 1700s.