Samuel Wharton

[1] 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.

Though Samuel later made his home in Dover, he always maintained close business connections with the city, where he was a partner in the mercantile firm of Baynton, Wharton and Morgan.

There Wharton represented a group of merchants, known as the "suffering traders", who had had trade goods destroyed during the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion (Marshall 1965:717).

Wharton served two years as a state court judge in Delaware before retiring to a country estate just outside Philadelphia, where he died in March 1800.

Marshall, Peter, 'Lord Hillsborough, Samuel Wharton and the Ohio Grant, 1769-1775' , The English Historical Review © 1965 Oxford University Press, Stable URL: [1] (article consists of 23 pages).

Samuel Wharton
This map shows the Indiana grant awarded to Wharton and his "suffering traders." The land was later included in the Grand Ohio Company 's proposed Vandalia colony.