![]() ![]() This group would create the first settlement in Ohio, for which he (and other founders) would receive four shares, or 4,692 acres of land. ![]() Yet, this descendent of “strong-minded English Puritans” graduated from Yale College, loved his wife and children, had “boundless intellectual curiosity” and enjoyed “good food, good wine, a good story and good cheer.” He was, therefore, a perfect candidate to set out on the Ohio River.Ĭutler helped co-found the Ohio Company of Associates at the Bunch of Grapes meeting in 1784. The pastor of the First Congregational Church of Ipswich Hamlet in Massachusetts, he would be an unlikely candidate for a rugged, adventurous pioneer at first blush. The book’s most important real-life character is Manessah Cutler. ![]()
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