[167] Gordon's Journal down the Ohio, 1766, MS in Pa. Hist. Soc. Lib.
[168] Gage to Hillsborough, June 16, 1768, Pub. Rec. Office, A. & W. I., Vol. 124.
[169] Hillsborough to Gage, July 31, 1770, Pub. Rec. Office, A. & W. I., Vol. 126.
[170] Alden, Governments West of the Alleghanies before 1789, pp No attempt is made in my study to add any new contribution to the period preceding 1763.
[171] Ibid., 7-11.
[172] Original Articles of Agreement of the Mississippi Co. Chatham Papers, Vol. 97, Pub. Rec. Office. Another copy, in the handwriting of Washington, is in the Lib. of Congress. No mention is made in the original articles relative to the exact location of the proposed colony. Most of the information concerning the project comes from a collection of papers relating to the company, in the handwriting of William Lee, which I found in a miscellaneous collection of the Earl of Chatham's papers, in the Pub. Rec. Office.
[173] Some of the original members of the company were George, Samuel and John Washington, and several of the Lees and Fitzhughs. There were 38 charter members, but provision was made for 50.
[174] Articles of Agreement, Chatham Papers, Vol. 97. Each member was to have fifty thousand acres. Ibid.
[175] Memorial to the crown, prepared at a meeting of the company at Belleview, Va., Sept. 9, 1763.
[176] Ibid. Articles of Agreement.