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BENJAMIN OF OHIO

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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Benjamin's Story 9
The Ohio Company 10
Rufus Putnam 13
Colonel Putnam, the Engineer 15
The First Emigrants 16
Building a Fleet 18
Campus Martius 19
The Arrival of General Putnam 21
The Work of the First Emigrants 23
Clearing the Land 25
How Our Company was Formed 27
Making Ready for the Journey 28
Concerning Myself 31
Setting Out 32
Mistress Devoll's Outfit 34
At Providence 37
On the Road to Blooming Grove 39
Plans for the Future 40
On the Water Once More 42
Feasting on Honey 43
Among the Moravians 45
The Rope Ferry 47
The Way through Pennsylvania 49
The Shame of the Girls 50
Meeting with Parson Cutler 51
Ohio Cornfields 53
The Governor and Judges 54
The Name of the Town 56
Campus Martius 58
Independence Day 59
Master Devoll's House 62
The Indian Mounds 63
At Harrisburg 64
Isaac Barker's Sport 66
Uncle Daniel Carter 67
Uncle Daniel Joins Our Company 69
Hard Traveling 71
Mud and Water 72
A Storm of Snow 74
Across the Mountains 76
A Friendly Dunkard 78
Master Hiples's Kindness 80
A Surly Landlord 82
Isaac Flogs the Landlord

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