Ohio Company
British land speculation company in colonial North America / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the later company that helped to settle the state of Ohio, see Ohio Company of Associates.
The Ohio Company, formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country (approximately the present U.S. state of Ohio) and to trade with the Native Americans. The company had a land grant from Britain and a treaty with Indians, but France also claimed the area, and the conflict helped provoke the outbreak of the French and Indian War.[1]
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