The Lytle family of Cincinnati is considered to be Cincinnati's first family and the founders of Cincinnati.
Captain William Lytle (1728–97), was deeded 1200 acres (4.9 km²) of land for service as one of General Washington's elite corps of officers in the Revolutionary War (the Society of the Cincinnati

Society of the Cincinnati

The Society of the Cincinnati is a historical organization with branches in the United States and France founded in 1783 to preserve the ideals and fellowship of the American Revolutionary War officers and to pressure the government to honor pledges it had made to officers who fought for American...

). He solicited settlers to follow him with the promise of land. In April of 1780, (8 years before John Cleves Symmes and Colonel Robert Patterson), Capt.