An Account of the Manuscripts of Gen Dearborn As Massachusetts Commissioner I
An Account of the Manuscripts of Gen Dearborn As Massachusetts Commissioner I
Henry a Homes
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Massachusetts and New York, under their original powers from Great Britain, claimed juris- diction from their western boundaries to the Pacific ocean. This interfering claim of Massachusetts was settled by an agreement or contract of that State with New York, December 16, 1786, at Hart- ford, Conn. , by which the territorial jurisdiction of New York was acknowledged, while Massachusetts only retained the right to buy the 4, 000, 000 acres which she claimed, from the Indians, at such times as th...ey were willing to sell. This pre-emptive right was one which Massachusetts could dispose of in portions to other parties. The first great sale was made to Messrs. Phelps & Gorham. In 1788, and next in time, 1, 250, 000 acres to Robert Morris, the great financier, the nation's great benefactor, in 1791. He formed the Holland Land Company to facilitate the sale of the land. It was this purchase which brought upon Morris those financial embarrassments which could and did *Morgan's League of the Iroquois, Roch.
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