SYMMES PURCHASE
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John Cleves Symmes and his associates bought in 1787 a tract of land along the Ohio and Miami Rivers. The tract originally contained 1,000,000 acres, but was reduced plans. The first pre-emption law was passed in 1801 for the furtherance of this scheme.
By John Franklin Jameson
