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    <abstract id="aspace_d0dd4db1c19f4004c42275a243e424ed">Papers relating to the early development of Marietta and the Ohio Valley include the journal, 1784-1790, and correspondence, 1776-1824 (3 vols.), of a Revolutionary War officer and organizer of the Ohio Company, General Rufus Putnam; papers of Samuel Prescott Hildreth entitled: "Early Events in the Valley of Ohio, 1787 to 1847" (2 vols.); letter from Nathan Goodale to Rufus Putnam, 15 March 1788; journal of Joseph Buell, 1785-1789; and a journal of John Mathews, 1786 (holograph copy).</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Ohio Historical Papers, A&amp;M 1202, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81084400" source="lcsh">Marietta (Ohio)</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85094291" source="lcsh">Ohio River Valley</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">Diaries and journals.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Rivers and river valleys.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Revolutionary War.</subject>
    <corpname source="ingest">Ohio Company.</corpname>
    <persname source="ingest">Goodale, Nathan.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Putnam, Gen. Rufus.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Mathews, John.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86827162" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Hildreth, Samuel P. (Samuel Prescott), 1783-1863</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93050573" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Buell, Joseph, 1763-</persname>
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