Agreement to Admit the Ohio Company as Co-Purchasers with the Grand Ohio Company
Reprinted from The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries, Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America, second series, III (1868), 18.
May 7, 1770

We the Committee of the Purchasers of a Tract of Country for a New Province on the Ohio in America do hereby admit the Ohio Company as a Co-Purchaser with us for Two Shares of the said Purchase in consideration of the Engagement of their Agent Col. Mercer to withdraw the application of the said Company for a Separate Grant within the limits of the said Purchase. Witness our hands this 7th day May 1770

Thomas Walpole
T. Pownall
B. Franklin
Saml Wharton
Thomas Walpole
T. Pownall
B. Franklin
Saml Wharton
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