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Return Jonathan Meigs surveyors field notes - B
| Title: | Return Jonathan Meigs surveyors field notes - B |
| Author: | Meigs, Return Jonathan, 1740-1823; Putnam, Rufus, 1738-1824 |
| Description: | Return Jonathan Meigs, appointed a surveyor by the Ohio Company of Associates, arrived in Marietta, Ohio, in 1788. Active in the affairs of the settlement he drew up its first code of civic regulations. He later became a justice of the peace, a territorial judge, and a member of the territorial legislature. In 1801, President Thomas Jefferson appointed him agent for both the Cherokee Nation and the War Department in Tennessee. This book contains Meigs's field notes of survey in parts of federal survey ranges 8 and 12, following the meanders of the Ohio, Muskingum, and Hocking rivers, and Rufus Putnam's surveys of parts of Marietta. |
| Bookmark: | http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MARIETTA/409 |
| Date: | 1789, 1796, 1797 |
