The companies were composed of British, American, and Canadian merchants and traders, of London, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Quebec, etc.

Lord Dunmore was in the Wabash Company.

The agents of the companies, in after years, made repeated but unsuccessful efforts to get Congress to confirm their grants.

Although these various companies made much noise at the time, they introduced no new settlers into the land, and, in fact, did nothing of lasting effect; so that it is mere waste of time to allude to most of them.

See, however, the "History of Indiana," by John B.Dillon (Indianapolis, 1859), pp.
102-109, etc.] But their titles were as unreal and shadowy as those acquired by the Spanish and Portuguese kings when the Pope, with empty munificence, divided between them the Eastern and the Western hemispheres.