Excerpt from Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 The Ohio Company was an association formed in Virginia about the year 1748, under a royal grant. The nominal ob jcet of the charter association was to trade with the Indians, to divert it southward along the Potomac route, and to settle the region about the Ohio with English colonists from Vir ginia and Maryland. That it was intended to be a great bar rier against the encroachments of the French, is manifest. Its privileges and concessions were large and ample. 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.