In other words, they were going to carry on war as a syndicate, the military operations for the occupation of the ceded territory being part of the business for which the company was organized.

Their relations with the Union were doubtless to be determined by the course of events.
The South Carolina Yazoo Company.
This company was the South Carolina Yazoo Company.

In 1789 several companies were formed to obtain from the Georgia Legislature grants of the western territory which Georgia asserted to be hers.

One, the Virginia Company, had among its incorporators Patrick Henry, and received a grant of nearly 20,000 square miles, but accomplished nothing.

Another, the Tennessee Company, received a grant of what is now most of northern Alabama, and organized a body of men under the leadership of an adventurer named Zachariah Cox, who drifted down the Tennessee in flat-boats to take possession, and repeated the attempt more than once.