Barlow studied law and was admitted to the Bar. He worked as a promoter for the Scioto Land Company. In 1788. Barlow went to Paris to promote the sale of the Scioto Land. a huge tract of Ohio wilderness opened by the government for settlement. to European emigrants. A large group of bourgeois French refugees traveled to Ohio to settle in the land. but the American promoters had not made any preparations for their reception. and they met terrible privations in the wilderness. By the time Ruth joined her husband in Paris in 1790. American organizers of the Scioto company were exposed as profiteering frauds.
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