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Map of Ohio showing the Symmes Purchase.

The Symmes Purchase, also known as the Miami Purchase, was an area of land totaling roughly 311,682 acres (487.003 sq mi; 1,261.33 km2)[1] in what is now Hamilton, Butler, and Warren counties of southwestern Ohio, purchased by Judge John Cleves Symmes of New Jersey in 1788 from the Continental Congress.

  1. ^ "Symmes Purchase". Ohio History Central. Ohio Historical Society. Retrieved 26 September 2014.

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Ohio, purchased by Judge John Cleves Symmes of New Jersey in 1788 from the Continental Congress. In the 1780s, Benjamin Stites, a friend of Symmes, was...

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delegate John Cleves Symmes, purchased one or two million acres in 1787 from the Congress of the Confederation that was called Symmes Purchase. Also called the...

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New York, a part of British America, on July 21, 1742. Symmes was educated as a lawyer. Symmes supported the revolution, becoming chairman of the Sussex...

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on May 5, 1792, authorized the sale to John Cleves Symmes of the land known as the Symmes Purchase, one of the terms was that he would allocate a full...

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Anna Tuthill Symmes was born on July 25, 1775, in Morristown, New Jersey, as the second child of Anna Tuthill and John Cleves Symmes.: 53  Her father...

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the Miami Valley. The land was within the Symmes Purchase; Judge John Cleves Symmes, the land's owner, purchased it from the government with the stipulation...

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Salt Lands School Lands Seven Ranges or Old Seven Ranges Symmes Purchase or Miami Purchase and/or the Land Between the Miamis Toledo Strip, object of...

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Salt Lands) School Lands Seven Ranges (or Old Seven Ranges) Symmes Purchase (or Miami Purchase; also the Land Between the Miamis) Turnpike Lands Twelve Mile...

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in the Firelands. Prior to any settlement here, land speculators had purchased all of the original claims for re-sale. On April 15, 1803, the investor...

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Following the Ohio Company, the Miami Company (also referred to as the "Symmes Purchase") claimed the southwestern section, and the Connecticut Land Company...

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section numbering plan was subsequently used for the privately surveyed Symmes Purchase and, with some modifications, by the privately surveyed Ohio Company...

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the first purchase. The Second Purchase had no sections set aside for schools or ministry. The Second Purchase is also known as the Purchase on the Muskingum...

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Ranges survey area, the Virginia Military District, Symmes Purchase, and two Ohio Company purchases, all in eastern and southern Ohio, as well as the line...

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