Massachusetts/Ohio, 1808-1889. Oil on canvas, unsigned. The landing of the original forty eight settlers of Marietta led by Rufus Putnam on April 7, 1788. They are shown with local Native Americans on the east bank of the Muskingum River with Ft. Harmar in the background and the confluence of the Ohio River on the left. Pictured on the bank is the "Adventure Galley", one of two flatboats which brought the settlers. Areas of inpainting, primarily along lines of crazing and flaking along the sky and the trees on the right as well as some scattered areas along the river and the figures. Rebacked on canvas over board and varnished. Frame is most likely original with regilding. 23"h. 29"w., framed, 30"h. 37"w. Sala Bosworth moved with his family to Marietta, Ohio in 1818, afterwards becoming an artist, known primarily as a portrait painter. He and Charles Sullivan were commissioned to illustrate Dr. Samuel P. Hildreth's 1848 book "Pioneer History of the Ohio Valley". At that time Dr. Hildreth commissioned this painting from Bosworth. Since then it has descended in the Hildreth and Putnam families as follows: Commissioned by Dr. Samuel P. Hildreth (1783-1863), then to his daughter, Mary Ann Hildreth (1808-1842) who married Douglas Putnam (1806-1894), then to their son, Samuel Hildreth Putnam (1835-1911), then to his son, Benjamin Barnes Putnam (1871-1944), and to his son, Benjamin Hay Putnam (1896-1984), and then to Benjamin Hay Putnam, Jr. (1925-2007). One of Bosworth's murals remains in the Unitarian Church in Marietta, titled "Christ Weeping over Jerusalem".