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Samuel Felshaw,
and Theophilus
Learned were young men from
Killingly, Connecticut, who joined the company "from a roving
disposition and a desire to see the world." These were doubtless
the "two men from Muskingum, belonging to Killingly," that Dr.
Cutler met in the street of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, July 31,
1788, when on his way to Ohio, as mentioned in his published journal.
They were not share-holders, but were engaged to the Company for six
months from the 1st of January, 1788; and the time being out and their
curiosity satisfied, they returned home. Mr. Learned
belonged to one of the best families in Killingly. Mr.
Felshaw was the son of Captain John Felshaw, "who kept a
noted tavern in Killingly, and was long prominent in town and public
affairs," and "died leaving a large landed estate to be divided among
his children. The tavern became the property of his son,
Samuel Felshaw." * |
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Hezekiah Flint,
of REading, Massachusetts, was employed by the Ohio Company as the
chief carpenter. His son, Hezekiah Flint, Jr., was "to go
if room could be made for him." They both came in that pioneer
company, but it is uncertain if both remained. The name of one
Hezekiah Flint is given as being in Fort Harmar during the war.
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Peregrine Foster,
Esq., from Brookfield, Massachusetts, one of the
forty-eight, was born in 1749. He owned a share in the Ohio
Company, and was employed by them as a surveyor. Previous to the
Indian war he went East for his family, but while on his way to
Marietta he heard of the outbreak, and took refuge with them in
Morgantown, Virginia, until 1796, when he removed to Belpre, Ohio, and
established the first tavern and the first ferry across the Ohio at
that place. He was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas prior to
1802 and died in 1804. A man of eminent worth, and a great loss
to the community. * |
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NOTES:
* Source:
The founders of Ohio : brief sketches of the forty-eight pioneers who,
under command of General Rufus Putnam, landed at the mouth of the
Muskingum River on the seventh of April, 1788 and commenced the first
white settlement in the North-west Territory.
Cincinnati,: R. Clarke & Co., 1888
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