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[WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799)]. Announcement by George Washington advertising for settlers for land along the bank of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. In The Maryland Journal, and the Baltimore Advertiser. Baltimore: William Goddard, Friday August 10, 1773. Vol. 1, Numb. 1. 4 pp. on newsprint broadsheet (each page 438 x 264 mm). Paper is reinforced throughout in transparent tissue and is repaired and restored, stab-holes at top. Paper is toned, worn, soiled, creased. Washington’s announcement is on p. [4] in the third column, and the dateline is: “Mount Vernon in Virginia, July 15, 1773”. “The Subscriber having obtained Patents for upwards of TWENTY THOUSAND Acres of LAND on the Ohio and Great Kanhawa (Ten Thousand of which are situated on the bands if the first-mentioned river, between the mouths of the two Kanhawas and the remainder on the Great Kanhawa, or New River, from the mouth, or near it, upwards, in one continued survey) proposes to divide the same into any sized tenements that may be desired, and leafe them upon moderate terms, allowing a reasonable number of years rent free, provided, within the space of two years from next October…” Washington attempted to add the lands near the Ohio and Kanawha rivers to his property at Mount Vernon (this land was granted to him and other Virginia veterans of the French and Indian War), but he needed settlers to live on the land and work it, because that territory was still considered wild and unsafe. Washington advertised in this newspaper (and, presumably, others) in order to attract settlers to rent this land at a very low rate.