It prohibited any of England's colonists from living west of the mountains. Fearing conflicts between its colonists and the Native Americans residing west of the Appalachian Mountains, England issued the Proclamation of 1763. He also lobbied the English government to provide veterans of the French and Indian War with land bounties along the Mississippi River. When the war was over, Putnam returned home where he became a farmer and a miller. In 1757, he fought for the British in the French and Indian War. His father died when Putnam was seven and his mother apprenticed him to a millwright. Putnam was born on April 9, 1738, in Sutton, Massachusetts. Rufus Putnam was a soldier and early settler of Ohio after the American Revolution. He was a Revolutionary War veteran and member of the Ohio Company who helped to found Marietta, Ohio and open the Northwest Territory for settlement. Reproduction of a portrait of General Rufus Putnam (profile), ca.
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