During the Revolutionary War, Washington told his friend General Rufus Putnam of the beauty he had seen in his travels through the Ohio Valley and of his ideas for settling the territory.

The town traces its roots to 1788, when a group of American pioneers to the Northwest Territory led by Gen. Rufus Putnam traveled overland from Massachusetts and stopped at this location to build boats.

* Rufus Putnam

The three forts were named Fort Putnam ( for Rufus Putnam ), Fort Greene ( for Nathanael Greene ) and Fort Box ( for Major Daniel Box ).

As late as 1791, Rufus Putnam wrote to President Washington that " we shall be so reduced and discouraged as to give up the settlement.

Its first judges were General Rufus Putnam, General Benjamin Tupper, and Colonel Archibald Crary.

On October 20, General Washington sent Colonel Rufus Putnam out on a reconnaissance mission from his camp at Harlem Heights.

General Rufus Putnam, center-rear, was a trustee from 1804 to 1824

The 4th Regiment was fully organized in August and assigned to the command of Col. Rufus Putnam.

As part of the attack on Stony Point, Washington had directed two brigades to begin moving toward Verplanck's, and dispatched Colonel Rufus Putnam with a small force to divert the attention of its British garrison.

Rufus Putnam

The company was formed on March 1, 1786, by Rufus Putnam, Benjamin Tupper, Samuel Holden Parsons and Manasseh Cutler in Boston, Massachusetts.

Rufus Putnam, along with his cousin Israel Putnam and two others, traveled in 1773 to survey near present-day Pensacola, Florida.

Gen. Rufus Putnam at center-rear

Arrival of Rufus Putnam and pioneers at the confluence of the Ohio River | Ohio and Muskingum River | Muskingum rivers on April 7, 1788

Rufus Putnam marker at Mound Cemetery ( Marietta, Ohio ) | Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio

* Buell, Rowena: The Memoirs of Rufus Putnam, Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts ( 1903 ).

* Dawes, E. C .: Journal of Gen. Rufus Putnam kept in Northern New York during Four Campaigns of the old French and Indian War, Joel Munsell ’ s Sons, Albany, New York ( 1886 ).

She was a first cousin once removed of Generals Israel Putnam and Rufus Putnam.

* Rufus Putnam

The two travelled to Fort Nelson, where they met with General Rufus Putnam.

Poster for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | Lincoln Center production by James McMullanArcadia first opened at the Royal National Theatre in London on 13 April 1993 in a production directed by Trevor Nunn and featuring Rufus Sewell as Septimus Hodge, Felicity Kendal as Hannah Jarvis, Bill Nighy as Bernard Nightingale, Emma Fielding as Thomasina Coverly, Alan Mitchell as Jellaby, Derek Hutchinson as Ezra Chater, Sidney Livingston as Richard Noakes, Harriet Walter as Lady Croom, Graham Sinclair as Captain Brice, Harriet Harrison as Chloe Coverly, Timothy Matthews as Augustus Coverly and Gus Coverly and Samuel West as Valentine Coverly.

Mosley and Diana had two sons: ( Oswald ) Alexander Mosley ( born 26 November 1938 ) and Max Rufus Mosley ( born 13 April 1940 ), president of the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) for 16 years.

She has contributed bass and backing vocals to childhood friend Rufus Wainwright's album Poses, and appears in his 1998 video for " April Fools ".

Prater had his last performance with Sam Daniels on April 3, 1988 at a Stax Reunion at the Atlanta Civic Center which also featured Isaac Hayes, Eddie Floyd, and Rufus and Carla Thomas.

Duncan was briefly replaced by Rufus Cruikshank for ten episodes after Duncan was injured when a horse bolted toward the spectators, mostly children, watching the location filming of the episode " Checkmate " on 20 April 1955, Archie Duncan grabbed the bridle stopping the horse but the cart it was pulling ran him over causing a fractured kneecap and cuts and bruises.

It was directed by Rufus Norris at the Young Vic from 27 April – 9 June.

*" Tony Gibson: Conscientious objector who became the smooth image of the RAF ", Donald Rooum and Rufus Segar, The Guardian, April 30, 2001.

* Rufus Hound and Beth Johnson ( April 2007 )

Max Rufus Mosley ( born 13 April 1940 ) is the former president of the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ), a non-profit association that represents the interests of motoring organisations and car users worldwide.

William Rufus Day ( April 17, 1849 – July 9, 1923 ) was an American diplomat and jurist, who served for nineteen years as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Marcus Tullius Cicero gave the speech, Pro Caelio, on April 4, 56 BC, in defense of Marcus Caelius Rufus.

On April 20, 2006 ( 4-20 ), the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws honored Mirkarimi with its Rufus King Award for outstanding leadership in the reform of marijuana laws.

* Rufus Wainwright-" April Fools "

It premiered at the Almeida Theatre in 2004 in a production directed by Rufus Norris, before transferring to a successful West End run at the Lyric Theatre, London until April 2005.

The play was performed at London's Royal National Theatre beginning in April 2009, directed by Rufus Norris, with choreography by Javier de Frutos and starring Lucian Msamati.

On 2 April 2007, Medcalf took over the role of Sally Bowles from Anna Maxwell Martin in Rufus Norris ' revival of Cabaret at the Lyric Theatre in the West End.

George Rufus Adams ( April 29, 1940 Covington, Georgia – November 14, 1992 New York City, New York ) was an American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone, flute and bass clarinet.

However, the issue did not die there, and on 6 April 1785 Rufus King introduced a resolution to re-implement the slavery prohibition in the 1784 ordinance, containing a fugitive slave provision in the hope that this would reduce opposition to the objective of the resolution.

On April 7, 1788, Ebenezer Sproat and a group of American pioneers to the Northwest Territory, led by Rufus Putnam, arrived at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers to establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.

Alexis was personally asked by Robbie Williams to record the Martha Wainwright part on a cover of Rufus Wainwright's song, " April Fools ".