Israel Ludlow

Israel Ludlow
Born	1765 Morristown, New Jersey
Died	January 1804 Cincinnati, Ohio
Resting place	Spring Grove Cemetery
Spouse(s)	Charlotte Chambers

Israel Ludlow (1765 – January 1804) was a government surveyor who helped found Cincinnati, Dayton and Hamilton in southwest Ohio.

Israel Ludlow was born near Morristown, New Jersey in 1765. In 1786, each of the thirteen states was to appoint a man to help survey the Seven Ranges in the easternmost portion of the Northwest Territory under the Land Ordinance of 1785. Ludlow was appointed to fill the vacant South Carolina surveyorship. Ludlow was one of two surveyors to stay in settlements near the Ohio River the winter of 1786-1787, and completed the survey of the seventh range, plats, and notes by August 1787.

Later in 1787, a land company called the Ohio Company of Associates contracted with the Congress of the Confederation to buy a one million five hundred thousand acre tract along the Ohio River to the west of the Seven Ranges. Ludlow surveyed the north line of this tract that is known as Israel Ludlow's Survey.

Virginia was granted lands between the Scioto River and Little Miami River in Ohio for bounties for her war veterans in a tract called the Virginia Military District. John Cleves Symmes purchased a large tract between the Little Miami River and the Great Miami River called the Symmes Purchase. Symmes had Ludlow survey a line between the sources of the Scioto and Little Miami to determine the boundary between the tracts, afterwards known as the Ludlow Line, the subject of decades of legislation and court action due to the difficulty in determining the source of the Scioto River.

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