Instructions for Messrs. John Jennings, Charles Stewart, & Amos Ogden, for settling the Proprietary Lands at Wyoming : MsS, [1768].

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Instructions for Messrs. John Jennings, Charles Stewart, & Amos Ogden, for settling the Proprietary Lands at Wyoming : MsS, [1768].

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Directs them to proceed swiftly with the settlement of the proprietary tracts of land around Wyoming on the Susquehanna River, in accordance with terms given in another document of equal date, and authorizes them to repel the settlers from Connecticut who are claiming the same land.

1 item (1 p.) ; 38 cm. folded to 19 cm. + separate cover sheet.

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