Survey of the Ohio & the Miami Purchases

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Type

Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Description

Surveyor Israel Ludlow describes for Hamilton the travails of his attempts to survey the Ohio and Miami Companies and the danger and suffering that were involved.

Date

05/05/1792

Document number

1792050590000

Note

Henry Benton Teetor, Sketch of the Life and Times of Col. Israel Ludlow, One of the Original Proprietors of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, 1885), 50-52.

Notable persons

Alexander Hamilton

Israel Ludlow

General Knox

Major Doughty

Major Ziegler

troops

Indians

General Knox

my hired men and packhorses [pack horses]

General Harmar

General St. Clair

three active woodsmen to assist as spies

three armed men

General Wilkinson

Notable locations

Philadelphia

Fort Harmar

Fort Pitt

Marietta

Fort Washington

Miami and Ohio tracts

the Ohio

Limestone

mouth of the Great Sandy River

Miami River

Little Miami River

Notable items

surveys of the Ohio and Miami Companies

cause of the delay

General Knox's letter, or order to the Commandant for an escort

chain-carriers and other hands

corn

provision

camp equipage

coming cold season

frontier stations

Miami survey

official application for fifteen men or more

execution of this survey

a matter of the highest interest and importance to the United States

sufficient guard

Ohio Company's survey

loss of six of the escort

all of my pack-horses [pack horses] and their equipage

raft of logs

protection

my reputation

the public good

approaching danger

western boundary

deep snows and cold weather

game for supplies

cold weather

east boundary

signs of the near approach of Indians

whole of the survey of the Ohio and part of the Miami purchases