ON THE FRONTIER WITH COLONEL ANTES MACMINN 1991 HDC NF

Description: ON THE FRONTIERWITHCOLONEL ANTESOR THESTRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACYOF THE RED AND WHITE RACESINPENNSYLVANIABYEDWIN MACMINNPUBLISHED BYZEBROWSKI HISTORICAL SERVICES&PUBLISHING COMPANYCOPYRIGHT1991Book is in like new condition 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...not be surveyed, and thus they could have no deeds or lawful ownership. They were there, and the Indians demanded that they should remove from thence. Their presence ruined the good hunting. On September 18th, 1773, the Governor informed the board of Council that he had received information that several families had lately squatted themselves on lands on the north side of the West Branch of the Susquehanna, beyond the boundaries of the late purchase made of the Indians at the treaty of Fort Stanwix, and it being considered that the making settlements on the Indian lands would create great uneasiness among them, and if not immediately removed, and prevented for the future, might be attended with fatal consequences, it was the opinion of the Board that a proclamation commanding the magistrates and other peace officers to enforce and carry the laws for preventing persons settling on any of the unpurchased lands in this province into execution against all persons who had already made such settlements, or should hereafter transgress the same law; the secretary was accordingly directed to prepare a draft of a proclamation for that purpose. In accordance with this decision the proclamation was immediately drawn by the secretary and approved by John Penn September 20th, 1773. Then it was proclaimed throughout the entire province. The proclamation must have been as oil to the wounded feelings of the Indians, for it recited that any person settling on these lands, making surveys, cutting or marking trees, with the intention of appropriating the land, should be apprehended and tried in the Court of Quarter Sessions, and if convicted should pay a fine of five hundred pounds, and....

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