RUFUS PUTNAM AND CERTAIN OFFICIAL PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF OHIO COMPILED AND ANNOTATED BY MISS ROWENA BUELL, MARIETTA, OHIO COLONIAL DAME OF MASSACHUSETTS AND MEMBER BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY 1903 COPYRIGHT 1903 BY THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES Published December 1903 MIA OL Rufus Putnam 1760 Commissioned Ensign, Massachusetts 1773 Commissioned Deputy Surveyor, West Florida 1774 Commissioned Captain Lieutenant of Grenadiers, Massachusetts 1775 Commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the 9th Regiment in the Army of the United Colonies 1776 Appointed Military Engineer 1776 Commissioned Colonel of the 5th Massachusetts Regiment in the Army of the United States 1783 Commissioned Brigadier General in the Army of the United States 1785 Appointed Superintendent of the Survey of Eastern Lands, Massachusetts 1785 Appointed Member of the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands, Massachusetts 1785 Appointed Surveyor of Western Lands under the Ordinance of 1785 1786 Appointed Commissioner to the Penobscot Indians, Massachusetts 1787 Appointed Justice of the Peace, Massachusetts 1787 Elected Member of the General Assembly of Massachu- . setts 1787 Appointed Superintendent of the Affairs of the Ohio Company 1788 Commissioned Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum, Washington County, Northwest Territory 1788 Commissioned Judge of Probate, Washington County, Northwest Territory 1790 Commissioned Judge of the General Court of the Northwest Territory 1792 Commissioned Brigadier General in the Army of the United States 1796 Commissioned Surveyor General of the United States 1801 Appointed Trustee of Ohio University 1802 Elected Member of the First Ohio Constitutional Con vention 228609 |