After the Ohio Company of Associates purchased land in the Northwest Territory from the American government, they began to organize that land for settlement. To encourage more settlement in the region, Congress also gave the Ohio Company a grant of approximately 100,000 acres in 1792. This grant was located along the northeast corner of the Ohio Company's territory and became known as the Donation Tract. Native Americans in the region were a significant threat to white settlement. The Donation Tract was meant to create a buffer zone between Native Americans and settlements within the Ohio Company's claims. Any adult white man willing to live within the Donation Tract was given one hundred acres of free land.