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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
Tri-County Legal Documents
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Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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Submitted by J. Kelsey Jones |
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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 pr 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 the 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 state.
July 7, 1803.
| Jesse Losey |
Titus Ives |
Robert Mitchell |
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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 Blanchards, 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 Kamp |
| 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 Elliott |
| Joseph M. Ross |
Aaron Stiles |
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Source: Papers and Proceedings of the Tioga County Historical
Society, Part I, Volume II. Wellsboro, Pa., 1909.
Joyce, I thought I had sent you that document on the 1803
Petition a long time ago but I guess not. To add to Kelsey's documentation
this is the book that I located at NEHGS Library in 1998. It had the exact
same document.
Charles Tubbs, Wellsboro and the Wells family (Wellsboro,
PA; Advocate Print. 1909) pp.16-17 Appendix A
Jane WOLSCHELAGEL Webb
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