Item 38: A Receipt by Elijah Dyer to Jonathan Trumble, 1760 March
Item — Box: 12, Folder: 78
Dates
- 1760 March
Creator
- Dyer, Elijah, 1716-1793 (Person)
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Extent
From the Collection: 17 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Manuscript (Note)
General Condition:
Poor. The item is ripped in half and appears to be stained. The ink is fading as well.
Measurements:
7 ¾ in. x 3 in.
Description:
The following item depicts a receipt dated March 1760, written by Elijah Dyer, sitting committee member for the Susquehanna Company, to Colonel Jonathan Trumble. In the receipt, Dyer notes that he has received $9.00 of Trumble for purchase of a whole right in the Susquehanna Company purchase. In making this purchase, Trumble is admitted into the company and holds the same privileges and benefits of others within the purchase.
The rights sold in these purchases worked at varying levels, with the first right granting the recipient about 5 acres, a city lot, which a group of settlers would establish together. This period of improvement required that the settlers establish various public buildings in order to gain more land grants, such as a school, a meeting center, and a church. When this was achieved by the settlement, the Company would grant them an additional 40 acres called a meadow lot, where you could become a farmer. These lots would be used to build out the townships, and after another 10 years, if all those acres were improved upon, then the company would grant the settlers the largest lots, the back mountain or woodland lots, which would contain about 300-400 acres.
The Lackawanna Historical Society has a deeper explanation of how these counties and townships were created on their website, where a descendent of the Jenkins family, Rich Jenkins, explains the various lots, share receipts, and business in the company as we can see in the manuscript.
Transcription:
469
March
1760 Recievd (sic) [Received] of Coll [Colonel] Jonathan Trumble(sic) [Trumbull] Nine
dollars for one whole right in the Susquehanna Lands by
which he is admitted into the Susquehanna Company
& Intitled (sic) [Entitled] to one whole Share in their purchase of ye
Lands afores[ai]d & to ye whole priviledge (sic) [privilege] & benefit of ye
Member thereof p[e]r Elijah Dyer one of ye
Comtee [Committee]
Back:
[Possibly different handwriting] Mar[ch] 1760— Colo[nel] Dyer’s Rect [Receipt] for Susquehanna Right
Back:
[Possibly different handwriting] Mar[ch] 1760— Colo[nel] Dyer’s Rect [Receipt] for Susquehanna Right
Creator
- Dyer, Elijah, 1716-1793 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu