Samuel Wharton
Samuel Wharton (May 3, 1732 – March 1800) was a
merchant, land speculator, and
politician from
Dover in
Kent County,
Delaware.
John Baynton,
George Morgan, and
George Croghan, deputy superintendent of Indian affairs, joined in a partnership on the
Ohio country and Indian Trade after 1763. Though the various colonies laid claim to parts of it after the
French and Indian War, the
Treaty of Paris gave control of the entire
Ohio region to
Great Britain of Wharton and their business operation. During the
American Revolution, he served as a delegate to the
Continental Congress from Delaware.
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