The Washington-Crawford Letters: Being the Correspondence Between George Washington and William Crawford, from 1767 to 1781, Concerning Western Lands

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R. Clarke & Company, 1877 - Ohio River Valley - 107 pages
 

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Page 6 - This advice proceeds from several very good reasons, and, in the first place, because I might be censured for the opinion I have given in respect to the King's proclamation, and then, if the scheme I am now proposing to you were known, it might give the alarm to others, and, by putting them upon a plan of the same nature, before we could lay a proper foundation for success ourselves, set the different interests clashing, and, probably, in the end, overturn the whole.
Page x - County; and in 1774 he was a justice of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and of the County Court of Common Pleas.
Page 5 - I can never look upon that proclamation in any other light (but this I say between ourselves), than as a temporary expedient to quiet the minds of the Indians.
Page 5 - Any person, therefore, who neglects the present opportunity of hunting out good lands, and in some measure marking and distinguishing them for his own, in order to keep others from settling them, will never regain it.
Page 4 - ... remain long ungranted, when once it is known that rights are to be had. The mode of proceeding I am at a loss to point out to you ; but, as your own lands are under the same circumstances, self-interest will naturally lead you to an inquiry. I am told that the land or surveyor's office is kept at Carlisle [Pa.].
Page 79 - State) for about 30,000 acres; and surveys for about 10,000 more, patents for which were suspended by the disputes with Great Britain, which soon followed the return of the warrants to the land-office. Ten thousand acres of the above thirty lie upon the Ohio ; the rest on the Great Kenhawa, a river nearly as large, and quite as easy in its navigation, as the former. The whole of it is rich bottom land, beautifully situated on these rivers, and abounding plenteously in fish, wild-fowl, and game of...
Page 47 - ... free myself from a promise made to Captain Proctor, but have not conceived myself amenable to this court, by any authority from Pennsylvania, upon which account 1 can not apprehend that you have any right to remain here as justices of the peace constituting a court under that province; but in order to prevent confusion, I agree that you may continue to act in that capacity, in all such matters as may be submitted to your determination by the acquiescence of the people, until I may have instructions...
Page 47 - Gentlemen: I am come here to be the occasion of no disturbances, but to prevent them. As I am countenanced by Government, whatever you may say or conceive, some of the justices of this bench are the cause of this appearance, and not me. I have done this to prevent myself from being illegally taken to Philadelphia. My orders from the Government of Virginia...
Page 84 - French crowns to a French gentleman, who was very competent to the payment at the time the contract was made ; but, getting a little embarrassed in his finances by the revolution in his country, by mutual agreement the bargain was cancelled.
Page 6 - I hope you will be encouraged to begin your search in time. I would choose, if it were practicable, to get large tracts together; and it might be desirable to have them as near your settlement or Fort Pitt as they can be obtained of good quality, but not to neglect others at a greater distance, if fine bodies of it lie in one place.

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