Rights were acquired to take up one million acres, and under these rights three small settlements were made towards the close of the year 1788.

One of them was chosen by St.Clair to be the seat of government.

This little town had been called Losantiville in its first infancy, but St.Clair re-christened it Cincinnati, in honor of the Society of the officers of the Continental army.
The men who formed these Miami Company colonies came largely from the Middle States.

Like the New England founders of Marietta, very many of them, if not most, had served in the Continental army.

They were good settlers; they made good material out of which to build up a great state.