 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1831 - 438 pages
...addition to the actual settlers at the time of the decree, they invited and encouraged emigrations from the states eastward of Pennsylvania, of all men...phrase of those people. These emigrants were called "Hall-share men," and were to have each half of a share in a township, which, I believe, was 160 or... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1831 - 444 pages
...addition to the actual settlers at the time of the decree, they invited and encouraged emigrations from the states eastward of Pennsylvania, of all men...property, who could be tempted by the gratuitous offer of land-; on the single condition that they should enter upon them armed, — "toman their rights," in... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Indians of North America - 1841 - 400 pages
...districts as possible. Colonel Pickering asserts positively, that " they invited and encouraged emigrations from the states eastward of Pennsylvania, of all men...should enter upon them armed, ' to man their rights,' according to the cant, phrase of the day. By this arrangement the Company hoped to pour in such a mass... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1844 - 434 pages
...districts as possible. Colonel Pickering asserts positively, that " they invited and encouraged emigrations from the states eastward of Pennsylvania, of all men...should enter upon them armed, ' to man their rights,' according to the cant phrase of the day. By this arrangement the Company hoped to pour in such a mass... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1864 - 444 pages
...encouraged emigrations from the states eastward of Pennsylvania, of all men destitute of prop~ •erty, who could be tempted by the gratuitous offer •of...they should enter upon them armed, ' to man their rights,5 according to the cant phrase of the day. By this arrangement the Company hoped to pour in... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, Charles Wentworth Upham - Biography & Autobiography - 1867 - 548 pages
...addition to the actual settlers at the time of the decree, they invited and encouraged emigration, from the States eastward of Pennsylvania, of all men...those people. These emigrants were called ' half-share meti,' and were to have each half of a share in a township, which, I believe, was one hundred and sixty... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, Charles Wentworth Upham - Legislators - 1873 - 546 pages
...addition to the actual settlers at the time of the decree, they invited and encouraged emigration, from the States eastward of Pennsylvania, of all men...half of a share in a township, which, I believe, was one hundred and sixty or two hundred acres ; a whole share being three hundred and twenty or four hundred... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, Charles Wentworth Upham - Biography & Autobiography - 1873 - 540 pages
...addition to the actual settlers at the time of the decree, they invited and encouraged emigration, from the States eastward of Pennsylvania, of all men...emigrants were called ' half-share men,' and were to have eacli half of a share in a township, which, I believe, was one hundred and sixty or two hundred acres... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1873 - 434 pages
...districts as possible. Colonel Pickering asserts positively, that " they invited and encouraged emigrations from the states eastward of Pennsylvania, of all men...condition that they should enter upon them armed} cto man their rights/ according to the cant phrase of the day. By this arrangement the Company hoped... | |
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In addition to the actual settlers at the time of the decree, they invited and encouraged emigration, from the States eastward of Pennsylvania, of all men destitute of property, who could be tempted by the gratuitous offer of lands; on the single condition... 