Inhabitants of the township of Tioga, County of Lycoming and State
of Pennsylvania
Proposal of Connecticut Land Title Holders [ Charles Tubbs, Wellsboro
and the Wells family (Wellsboro, PA; Advocate Print. 1909) pp.16-17
Appendix A]
The following document was found in the library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia, in manuscript. It presents the Yankee side of the Connecticut-Pennsylvania land controversy in its secondary or expiring phase. In its primary phase these signatories owned the lands they were on under the Connecticut title. Numerous evictions in the court at Williamsport had preceded this paper. Its only claim is, to be allowed to fix or arbitrate the price of the lands and for the "betterments." But this document represented a unanimous sentiment among those who dwelt here and upon them, the county organization was imposed. All of them dwelt in the valleys.
to the committee of landholders of pennsylvania
The undersigned and Inhabitants of the township of Tioga, County of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, think proper for the sake of peace and to promote good order and social intercourse with the good people of the State of Pennsylvania and more especially the Landholders, do hereby make the following proposals, that is—
We do agree to purchase the lands that we are now in possession of at full value, as they were in the state of nature, that is, if the same was not Vacant at the time the settlers began to occupy same; on these conditions that you produce sufficient Pennsylvania titles and authentically establish the legality of your Claim for same; and if you will send an Agent among us with sufficient Vouchers and powers as the law directs we will amediately purchase of him on reasonable terms, and if we can not agree as to the value thereof we will refer the same to disinterested persons and comply and abide their decision. Likewise we would suggest this idea—that there is in this County several Inhabitants that can not probably meet your Wishes in regard to payment—therefore if any such Settler chooses he or they will dispose of their Improvements to you on your satisfying them for the labor they have done on same; and for which, if the parties can not agree as to the betterments which has been bestowed on the lands then the subscribers will agree to have the labor appraised as before mentioned by disinterested persons and will amediately leave your premises on your performing as above stated.
July 7, 1803
| Jesse Losey | Titus Ives | Robert Mitchell |
| (Undecipherable) | John Wilson | Jordan Liberty |
| Hopestill Beecher | Lyman Prichard | Thomas Mitchell |
| Timothy Ives | Zebulon Cady | George Bregher |
| Bennajah Ives | Stephen Lane | Abner Blancher |
| Nicholas Pluchman | John Gordon | Ephraim Alderman |
| Dorman Bloss | John Cady | Timothy Coates |
| Elihu Marvin | Gideon Haynes | Wm. Cady |
| Thomas Beecher | Joshua Andrews | Abner Blanchard, Jr. |
| John Ives | Joseph Lane | Daniel Straight |
| John Jay | Thomas Willson | John Gardner |
| Samuel Bartlett | Jacob Reepe | Jobe Phillips |
| Pems Bardwell | James Jennings | Benjamin Ives |
| Nathan Niles | Benjamin Kinyon | William Allington |
| Waitstill Bardwell | Daniel Jordan | Wm. Burlingame |
| James Van Kampen | Levi Doty | Daniel Holiday |
| Gad Lamb | William Rathbun | Amasa Culver |
| Aaron Gillett | Stephen Losey | Nicholas Plutsman |
| John Ives, Jun. | Joseph Kelley | John Van Camp |
| James Rogers | Richard Mitchell | Elisha Serle |
| Pems Bardwell, Jun. | Elisha White, Jun. | Benjamin Van Camp |
| Ambrose Ives | Elisha White | Abel Cadey |
| William Willard | Timothy Culver | John Allington |
| Uriah Spencer | John Stiles | John Elliot |
| Joseph M. Ross | Aaron Stiles |