George Crabbe was an English poet. He was born in 1754 at Aldeburgh, Suffolk and died in 1832. He was the self-educated son of a salt-master of Aldeburgh, Suffolk. After studying surgery for a time in London he became assistant to an Aldeburgh surgeon, but went to London to try literature. He was rescued from poverty by Edmund Burke who took him to his house and found a publisher (Dodsley) for his poem The Library and soon after he entered the Church. He was appointed domestic chaplain to the Duke of Rutland, and afterwards obtained ample preferment. In 1783 appeared The Village, which was followed two years afterwards by The Newspaper. The Parish Register appeared in 1807. The Borough appeared in 1810, and was followed in 1812 by Tales in Verse, and in 1819 by Tales of the Hall. The latter years of George Crabbe's life were spent in the peaceful discharge of his professional duties at Trowbridge in Wiltshire, a living which he had received in 1814. His poems are all characterized by homely truthfulness, simplicity, and pathos. Research George Crabbe
John Manners, the Marquis of Granby was an English soldier and politician. He was born in 1721 and died in 1770. The son of the Duke of Rutland, he was educated at Eton and at Cambridge and raised a foot regiment in 1745. He became colonel of horse-guards in 1758 and lieutenant-general in 1759 and commanded the British troops in the Seven Years' War and was commander-in-chief of the British army from 1766 to 1770. He was elected to parliament in 1754, 1761, and 1768. His immense popularity, which was, however, scarcely earned by his merits as a general, was in part attested by the frequent use of his name for inns and public-houses. He was fiercely attacked by Junius. Research John Manners
The Ohio Company was an American colonial land company. In 1749 George II granted to a band of wealthy Virginians, calling themselves the Ohio Company, a tract of land containing 500,000 acres, and lying mostly to the west of the mountains and south of the Ohio River. Thomas Lee was the projector of this company, but it was later conducted by Lawrence Washington. The conditions of the grant were that 100 families should be established upon it, a fort should be built and a garrison maintained. Numerous store houses were also established.
A second Ohio Company was formed on March the 1st, 1786, on the suggestion and in the house of Rufus Putnam, of Rutland, Massachusetts. On March the 3rd, Putnam, Cutler, Brooks, Sargent and Cushing reported an association of 1000 shares, each of $1000 in Continental certificates, or $125 in gold. A year was allowed for subscription. Land was to be purchased from Congress, in tracts lying between the Ohio and Lake Erie. On May the 9th, 1787, Parsons, agent for the company, appeared before Congress and was well received. Congress granted certain lots free of charge, and an enormous tract was bought at about eight or nine cents per acre in specie. Colonization was immediately begun, and slavery was prohibited. The company had much influence in shaping the Ordinance for the Government of the Northwest Territory. Research Ohio Company
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