Improving Independence: The Struggle over Land Surveys in Northwestern Pennsylvania in 1794

Improving Independence: The Struggle over Land Surveys in Northwestern Pennsylvania in 1794

In the midst of the Northwest Indian War, the former surveyor John Adlum's operations as a land agent and his dealings with Cornplanter and other Allegany Senecas helped place a large portion of northwestern Pennsylvania in the hands of wealthy speculators. This article describes the complexity...

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Veröffentlicht in:Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. - Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2018. - 142(2018), 2, Seite 131-161
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Veröffentlicht: 2018
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Schlagworte:Land surveying Speculators Squatters Native Americans War Treaties Physical sciences Economics Social sciences Political science mehr... Behavioral sciences Biological sciences Law
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