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Ohio Company, 1779, I/U Stock Certificate Dividend Payment for the Dissolution of the Company.

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Ohio Company, 1779, I/U Stock Certificate Dividend Payment for the Dissolution of the Company.
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Ohio, May 26, 1779. 1 Share, I/U Stock Certificate Dividend payment to dissolve the company. The Ohio Company, founded in 1747, represented the trading and land prospecting interests of a handful of Virginia planters. In 1748 the British Crown approved a land grant to the company to be administered by the Colony of Virginia. The grant covered the Ohio territory, a colloquial term for what is now modern day West Virginia, much of Ohio, western Pennsylvania and parts of Maryland. Governor Robert Dinwiddie, a member of company, required that the company develop trade with the Indians, erect forts, and settle one hundred families to secure the grant. The company employed frontiersman Christopher Gist to survey the area of the grant in 1750. Two years later, Iroquois leaders signed a treaty at Loggstown, Pennsylvania, a large Native American settlement on the Ohio near the forks. Gist was representative of the Ohio Company and Colonel Joshua Fry represented the colony of Virginia at the negotiations. The Ohio territory was also claimed by the French, who began erecting forts in the Ohio Valley in reaction to the Treaty at Loggstown and other factors. By the beginning of the French and Indian War in 1754, the Ohio Company's efforts were largely stymied, despite its continued existence until its formal dissolution in 1779.