The Phelps and Gorham Purchase was the sale, in 1788, of a portion of a large tract of land in western New York State owned by the Seneca nation of the...
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Line"), and all the way to the Niagara River and Lake Erie (the "Phelps and Gorham Purchase"). In order to obtain title to such land, Phelps and Gorham would...
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The Pulteney Association (category Former regions and territories of the United States)
British investors who in 1792 purchased a large portion of the Western New York land tract known as the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The Pulteney Associates...
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Holland Land Company (section The Holland Purchase)
the Phelps and Gorham Purchase in 1792 and 1793, an area that afterward was known as the Holland Purchase. Additional lands were purchased in northwest...
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Fulton County, Ohio Gorham's Bluff, Alabama Gorham's Cave, sea cave and prehistoric settlement site in Gibraltar Phelps and Gorham Purchase, a 1788 land deal...
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Field Notes of Col. Hugh Maxwell's Pre-emption Line Survey in the Phelps and Gorham Purchase transcribed by John M. Robortella For Animations of these Land...
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Title of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. Rochester Historical Society. p. 33. Archived from the original on March 25, 2015. "Oliver Phelps". Ohio Historical...
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Robert Morris (financier) (category American prisoners and detainees)
Morris used the money from this sale to purchase the remainder of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, then turned around and sold much of that land to the Holland...
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Franklin sold 12,000,000 acres (49,000 km2; 19,000 sq mi) of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase east of the Genesee River in New York state to The Pulteney Association...
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included in the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. After passing through several hands, townships 13 and 14 of range IV of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase were acquired...
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Western New York (section Colleges and universities)
include the area of the Holland Purchase and the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The area is primarily served by Buffalo and Rochester media markets, although...
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century and added to New York County. New York's counties are named for various Native American words; British provinces, counties, cities, and royalty;...
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Phelps contains a village called Phelps. Both are north of Geneva. The town was part of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The region was first settled around...
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their lands in New York State east of the Genesee River (see Phelps and Gorham Purchase). In 1838, the Treaty of Buffalo Creek dealt with the disposition...
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prior rulings by the two federal courts in Philadelphia. Phelps and Gorham Purchase "Walking-Purchase" in Encyclopædia Britannica Gilbert, Daniel. "What Ye...
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was opened up to purchase and settlement. Roughly the western half of the Finger Lakes region comprised the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of 1790. The region...
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present day is part of the town of Victor. The town was part of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The town was created along with the county in 1789 as "Bloomfield...
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is in the Town of East Bloomfield and is west of Canandaigua. The village was part of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase (1788). It was incorporated in 1990...
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census. Farmington was part of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The town was formed along with its county in 1789, and settlement of the region began the...
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the south border of the county and is southwest of Geneva, New York. Jerusalem was within the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. It was first settled around 1791...
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Preemption Line (category Former regions and territories of the United States)
eastward to Seneca Lake purchased by James Watson. It is bounded on the west (Massachusetts portion) by the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. Timeline for the history...
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United States, which is conformant to the Flag Act of 1777 and has red stripes outermost and stars arranged in a circle. These details elaborate on the...
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York Region) Central New York Central New York Military Tract Phelps and Gorham Purchase Syracuse metropolitan area Mohawk Valley Southern Tier Capital...
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Central New York Military Tract (category Former regions and territories of the United States)
to Massachusetts. The tract immediately to the west became the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The west limit of most of the tract was Seneca Lake. Two Indian...
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became part of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, a 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km2) tract of land sold to Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham by the Commonwealth...
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western New York (the Phelps and Gorham Purchase) following the American Revolutionary War remains the largest real estate purchase in US history. The population...
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was part of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The Town of Palmyra, originally called "Swift's Landing" after its founder John Swift and "District of Tolland...
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part of Benton as late as 1779. The region became part of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The town was formed in 1803 from the Town of Jerusalem before...
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Robert Morris University (redirect from Robert Morris University School of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science)
growing enrollment, and in 1959 purchased its own Downtown building at 600 Fifth Ave. In 1962 the school purchased Pine Hill Manor and Farm in Moon Township...
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lands of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase the year prior. The territory first organized as Ontario County was much larger than at present and ran south from...
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