Phineas Coburn, one of the first company of emigrants to Ohio, was the eldest son of Major Asa Coburn, a gallant officer of the Massachusetts line, who, with two brothers, entered the army at the opening of the revolutionary war.  He retired from the conflict at its close with the rank of major; his brothers both died on the battle-field.  Major Coburn owned three shares in the Ohio Company, and removed with his family to Marietta August 19, 1788, and was a valuable acquisition to the settlement.  Phineas, his father, and family, joined the Waterford association, and on the commencement of Indian hostilities were domiciled in Fort Frye, where Major Coburn died during the war.  Early in 1795 the Coburns, with a few others, but a block house, and began to clear their farms on the fertile alluvial bottoms which border the Muskingum in Adams township.  Phineas made his permanent home in Morgan County, Ohio.  The gallant General Dumont, of Indiana, an officer in the Union Army, claimed descent through his mother from Major Coburn.
* Source:  The founders of Ohio : brief sketches of the forty-eight pioneers - Publ. Cincinnati by R. Clark & Co. - 1888

Ebenezer Corey came with the first company.  He was a man of much enterprise and industry.  It is recorded the first season that, "a piece of bottom land on the bank of the Ohio, belonging to Mr. Corey, had been harvested, and measured one hundred and four bushels of corn to the acre."  He was the architect of the bridge over Tyber Creek, which was "twenty-five feet high, ninety feet long, and twenty-four feet wide, covered with hewn planks four inches thick."  Colonel May writes, "It is called 'Corey's bridge,' ion honor of the master workman.  There is not so good a bridge, or any thing like it, betwixt it and Baltimore."  Mr. Corey and his wife were in Campus Martius during the war, but afterward went to Waterford. *\
* Source:  The founders of Ohio : brief sketches of the forty-eight pioneers - Publ. Cincinnati by R. Clark & Co. - 1888

Samuel Cushing, one of the forty-eight, came from New Bedford, Massachusetts.  He was the brother of Mrs. Benjamin Shaw, and was related to the well known Sumner and Cushing families of Massachusetts.  He was a member of the Waterford Association, and one of the young men who remained during the war to aid in the defense of the settlers.  He afterward married a daughter of Judge Gilbert Devol, and settled on a farm on Round Bottom, where he died October 9, 1823.  "His was the first death in the Mount Moriah Masonic Lodge; and the members, as a token of regard, wore a blue ribbon about the left arm from the time of his death to the next regular communication."
* Source:  The founders of Ohio : brief sketches of the forty-eight pioneers - Publ. Cincinnati by R. Clark & Co. - 1888

Captain Ezekiel Cooper, from Danvers, Massachusetts, was a share-holder in the Ohio Company, and came on in Major White's party.  "He was an Ensign in Hutchinson's regiment at the siege of Boston; Lieutenant in Putnam's (5th) regiment, 1777-82; commissioned Captain in Sproat's (2d) regiment, January 7, 1783; removed to Ohio in 1788; living in Warrentown, Ohio, in 1807."  Captain Cooper was in command of the galley sent up the Ohio river to bring to Marietta the failies who arrived at that place August 19, 1788.  He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 
* Source:  The founders of Ohio : brief sketches of the forty-eight pioneers - Publ. Cincinnati by R. Clark & Co. - 1888

Jervis Cutler was the son of Dr. Cutler, one of the Directors of the Ohio Company.  Dr. Cutler's published journal says, "Monday, December 3, 1787.  This morning a part of the men going to Ohio met here (at his house Ipswich Hamlet), two hours before day.  1 went on with them to Danvers.  The whole joined at Major White's.  Twenty men employed by the Company, and four or five on their own expense, marched at eleven o'clock.  This party is commanded by Major White.  Captain (Jethro) Putnam took the immediate charge of the men, wagons, etc.  Jervis went off in good spirits."  The Rev. G. W. Kelly, who for sixteen years filled the pulpit at Hamilton, formerly Ipswich Hamlet, in a recent letter, says: "An esteemed lady, Mrs. P. Roberts, often informed me about the company which left Hamilton an hundred years ago to make a settlement in the wilderness west of the Ohio river.  A wagon appeared in the highway in front of Dr. Cutler's house, covered with black canvas, but it had on both sides of it painted in white letters, 'For Ohio.'  As the home of Mrs. R. was directly opposite that of. Dr. Cutler, she could see all that took place.  The wagon was drawn by oxen, a team most likely to be useful when snow fell on the way."  Temple Cutler stated his recollections thus: "The little band of pioneers assembled at Dr. Cutler's house, and there took an early breakfast.  About the dawn of day, they paraded in front of the house, and after a short address from him, the men being armed, three volleys were fired, and the party went forward cheered heartily by the by-standers.  Dr. Cutler accompanied them to Danvers.
     Jervis Cutler had, at the age of sixteen, made a voyage to France, and now, at nineteen, he joined this company of adventurers, and was the first of the forty-eight who leaped on shore at the mouth of the Muskingum, April 7, 1788.  He was one of the associates who begun the settlement at Waterford, in the spring of 1789, and remained in the west until 1790, when he returned to New England and married Miss Philadelphia Cargill; in 1802 he settled at Bainbridge, Ohio, as a fur-trader.  He was chosen Major of Colonel McArthur's Ohio regiment in 1806, and enlisted a company for active service, of which he was appointed Captain.  This company was ordered to New Orleans in the spring of 1809.  Soon after his arrival there, he was prostrated by yellow fever, and the United States Senate having refused to confirm his appointment as Captain, because of a charge that he had made speeches attacking the administration, he returned to New England.  In 1812 he published a book entitled "A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, and Louisiana," with a "Concise Account of the Indian Tribes West of the Mississippi."  In 1818, he again came west, and settled as an engraver of plates for bank notes, in Nashville, Tennessee.  His first wife died in 1822.  In 1824, he married Mrs. Elizabeth Chandler, of Evansville, Indiana.  He died in Evansville, in 1844.  His only son, now living, is Dr. George A. Cutler, of Chicago.   
* Source:  The founders of Ohio : brief sketches of the forty-eight pioneers - Publ. Cincinnati by R. Clark & Co. - 1888