"A temporary expedient to quiet the minds of the Indians," Washington called it, and then himself went out along the Great Kanawha and into Kentucky, surveying land.
It will be asked what had become of the Ohio Company of Virginia and that fort at the Forks of the Ohio; once a bone of contention between France and England.

Fort Pitt, as it was now called, had fallen foul of another dispute, this time between Virginia and Pennsylvania.

Virginia claimed that the far western corner of her boundary ascended just far enough north to take in Fort Pitt.

Pennsylvania asserted that it did nothing of the sort.

The Ohio Company had meanwhile been merged into the Walpole Company.