Excerpt from Centennial Souvenir of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, 1797-1897: Historical, Pictorial, Descriptive, Statistical Lawrence and Augustine brothers of George The king of England granted to this company acres of land, which were to be chiefly taken on the south side of the Ohio river, but the privilege was given the company to embrace a portion of the lands on the north side of the Ohio river should it be deemed expedient. Shortly afterwards Christopher Gist explored this part of the country. First Recorded So far as known, the first English speaking white Incident, person to set foot in what is now Jefferson county. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.