The Mcgills, Celts, Scots, Ulsterman And American Pioneers; History, Heraldry And Tradition
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Bates, the historian and champion apologist for the misdeeds of corporations and men, in his history, entitled "Our Country and Our Peo- ple," page 182, thus records the coming of the Dutch, "At the close of the Revolutionary War several wealthy gentlemen of Holland, who had loaned money to the Government to carry on the 132 war, desiring to keep their money invested in this country, accepted lands in payment. The com- pany holding these lands was known as the Hol- land Land Company, and their ...holdings in the northwestern comer of Pennsylvania were about 900,000 acres." This would seem to be a plain statement of a business transaction between the state and the company, and whatever might be thought of the justice or policy of compelling the northwestern comer to pay the state's quota of the expenses of the Revolutionary War, the Holland Company ap- pears in the light of a very innocent purchaser, simply accepting lands in payment for money loaned. But on looking further into the methods of the transfer of this vast property the deal is pre- sented in a very different light, and the statement of Dr.
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