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Documents Relating to the Connecticut Settlement in the Wyoming Valley
Documents Relating to the Connecticut Settlement in the Wyoming Valley Author:William Henry Egle General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1893 Original Publisher: E.K. Meyers, state printers Subjects: Wyoming Valley (Pa.) New Netherland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this boo... more »k you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Trusty and WellbeloveIT OJeorge Clinton Esquire feovernor of our said State General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia and Admiral of the Navy of the same : At Poughkeepsie the Seventh day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, and of our Independence the Seventh. Paused the Secretary's office 7lh Novem' 1782. Robt. Hahpur, D. Secr'y. LETTERS Pennsylvania Claimants State's Commissioners. LETTERS FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA CLAIMANTS. Memorial of Josepth Wharton. The Memorial and Representation of Joseph Wharton, of the City of Phladelphia, to the honorable William Irvine, Thomas Boude and Andrew Porter, Commissioners appointed by law, to adjust and ascertain the value of Lands in the Seventeen townships, in Luzerne County, belonging to Pennsylvania, setteth forth: 1". That your Memorialist was one of the earliest purchasers of land, after the treaty at Fort Stanwix, on the North East and Easterly sides of the river Susquehanna, formerly in Northumberland County, and of other tracts which lay on a path leading from Wyoming to Onaquaga town, but now in Luzerne County. 2d. That 12 of the said tracts are on the said river. 3d. That 10 of these 12 tracts were surveyed the 23 Septem1, 1773, In pursuance of Order dated the 23d April, 1769. One other tract the 23d September, 1773, Order of the 3d April, 1769, and that the 12lh tract on the river was surveyed the 25th August, 1774, in pursuance of an order dated the 9lh day of May, 1774. 4lh. That the two other tract...« less