Samuel Wharton manuscript, [ca. 1770-1772].

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Samuel Wharton manuscript, [ca. 1770-1772].

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This collection contains a manuscript volume of various notes and memoranda on Native Americans' rights to property and titles in colonial North America. Compiled by Samuel Wharton in the years 1770 through 1775, the volume contains 144 pages of citations, mostly from Grotius, Douglass, and Smith's History of New Jersey, with the purpose of providing English legal interpretation and precedents on the proper transfer of title of tracts of property in North America. Ultimately, these notes formed the basis of Wharton's argument before the Lords of the Committee of Council to grant the parcel of land to Wharton and his partners what came to be known as the Walpole Grant.

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