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