The Ohio Company of Associates arrived here yesterday on their way to the Ohio country. It is understood that Rev. Cutler was unable to join the Company in time to accompany them to the Muskingum but will follow this summer. The men are loud in their praise of the Rev. Manasseh Cutler who was responsible or at least influential in deciding the content of the Ordinance of Oct 27, 1787, which will prohibit slavery in the Northwest Territory.....The Ohio Company is composed of former officers and men of the Continental Army and are the command of Ge. Rufus Putnam, Samuel Parsons and Dr Cutler. A genuine flow of emotions took place today as such local men as Andrew Va Swearingen, Major McGuire, Capt Brown and Sam Brady met up with their old acquaintances of war days.....Some time today the rest of the Company will arrive here by water and load with supplies from the mills out the creek. A large amount of corn seed was purchased of John Moore and the Company hope to be able to clear ground at the Muskingum in time for a crop this fall.....This band of settlers is the largest single band to come west of the Allegheny mountains and is composed of the most part of New Englanders from up around Ipswich. The men made Washington and Congress hold good to their promise of lands for their services in the war....We, in these parts, have been dubious as to settlements in territories west of the Ohio inasmuch as the government drove the settlers our and burned their cabins under the pretext of defending the agreement made with the Indians a few years ago. However, Putnam tell us that Congress made satisfactory settlements with the Indians and that the Ohio Company has purchased some 1,500,000 acres of land at 66 2-3 cents an acre on the north bank of the Ohio and an option on lands bounded by Sciota and Ohio Rivers. Two companies of 48 persons in all and including besides farmers and laborers, surveyors, carpenters, smiths, and boal builders. The company intends as they decided in Ipswich to name their new town Adelphia but there is still some argument among the group for calling it Marietta, in honor of Marie Antoinette. The settlers in these parts say that they want no part of this expedition, having learned bitterly of the doubtfulness of Congress promises and want to be assured of not being driven out by their soldiers or butchered in their sleep. This territory is still wild enough for us and we kind of like our neighbors and the Buffalo creek country. ...We wish the greatest success to the members of the Ohio Company of Associates and hope that our humble hospitality may have made their difficult task an easier one.