Territorial expansion and settlements in Pennsylvania, 1712-1895.

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Territorial expansion and settlements in Pennsylvania, 1712-1895.

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Asylum Company, 1794-1839; list of stockholders, notes, correspondence, agreements of sales of lands in Bradford, Columbia, Lycoming, Northumberland, and other counties; Avon-by-the-Sea Land and Improvement Company, 1892-1895; deeds, 1712-1845, documents of properties in various counties; John Nicholson's land transactions, 1781-1832; Northumberland County, 1773-1794, land transactions, surveys, trade, legal, politics, etc.; Pennsylvania Population Company, 1792-1794; North American Land Company, 1800-1880; early Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1684-1853, contain correspondence of colonial settlers, surveys, trade, military, and domestic records; surveys, 1688-1829; York County, 1768-1847, land transactions, legal, domestic, and political records.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Asylum Company

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In April, 1794 Robert Morris, John Nicholson, and others organized the Asylum Company to develop or sell lands that they had already acquired in Luzerne, Northampton, and Northumberland counties, Pa. French emigres, founders of Azilum on the North Branch of the Susquehanna River, near present Towanda, were among their first customers. The company was reorganized twice: in 1795 Nicholson succeeded to Morris's interest, and in 1801 Nicholson's financial difficulties forced him to give up his inter...

North American Land Company

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Company organized in Philadelphia, 1795, by Robert Morris, John Nicholson and James Greenleaf, to develop and sell 6,000,000 frontier acres. From the description of Papers of the North American Land Company [manuscript], 1794-1805. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813190 Company organized in Philadelphia, 1795, by Robert Morris, John Nicholson and James Greenleaf, to develop and sell 6,000,000 frontier acres. Morris and Nicholson were eventually imprisoned as...

Gratz, Simon.

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