Manuscripts and Documents of the Ohio Company of Associates"Manuscripts and Documents of the Ohio Company of Associates is a collection of business documents, land records, and correspondence related to the earliest settlement of Marietta and the Old Northwest Territory. It includes the original book of minutes of the Associates, record books listing shareholders and their land allotments, survey plats, and the surveyors' field notes. Part of the collection was bequeathed by William Rufus Putnam, the grandson of Rufus Putnam, and part was deeded to Marietta College by Agnes Ward White, whose ancestor, Nahum Ward, owned a controlling interest in the Company's assets."