Editing Worthington, Ohio (section)

===First settlement===
On May 5, 1802, a group of prospective settlers founded the Scioto Company at the home of Rev. Eber B. Clark in [[Granby, Connecticut]] for the purpose of forming a settlement between the [[Muskingum River]] and [[Great Miami River]] in the [[Ohio Country]]. [[James Kilbourne]] was elected president and Josiah Topping secretary (McCormick 1998:7).

On August 30, 1802, [[James Kilbourne]] and Nathaniel Little arrived at Colonel [[Thomas Worthington (governor)|Thomas Worthington]]'s home in [[Chillicothe, Ohio]]. They tentatively reserved land along the [[Scioto River]] on the [[Pickaway Plains]] for their new settlement (McCormick 1998:17).

On October 5, 1802, the Scioto Company met in [[Granby, Connecticut]] and decided not to purchase the lands along the [[Scioto River]] on the [[Pickaway Plains]], but rather to buy land {{convert|30|mi|km}} farther north from Dr. Jonas Stanbery and his partner, an [[American Revolutionary War]] general, [[Jonathan Dayton]]. Sixteen thousand acres (65&nbsp;km{{sup|2}}) were purchased along the Whetstone River (now known as the [[Olentangy River]]) at $1.50 per acre (McCormick 1998:19-27). This land was part of the [[United States Military District]] surveyed by [[Israel Ludlow]] in 1797 and divided into townships {{convert|5|mi|km}} square.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=001/llsl001.db&recNum=613|title=A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875|website=Memory.loc.gov|access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref>