Item 98: Two Photocopies of a List of Lands Belonging to the North, (Removed to Legal Box #2), 1793-1819

Item — Box: 15, Folder: 153

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Two Photocopies of a List of Lands Belonging to the North, (Removed to Legal Box #2), 1793-1819

Dates

Created: 1793-1819

Disclaimer for Name and Subject Authorities

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Access:

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Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

List/Photostat

General Condition:

Good.

Measurements:

12.25 x 7.75 in.

Description:

The following item depicts two photostats of a list of lands created by unknown, roughly during the mid-late nineteenth century. The list surveys the lands of interest lying in the north, andincludes the warrant names, number of acres, to whom they were patented, the warrant’s date, the survey date, and the date of the patent. The list appears in a table form, and after certain names is included a + symbole, which an accompanying annotation mentions that these are tracts of land that have been lost to the claimants following the 1799 act and its supplemental measures. The loss of lands under the act is likely referring to the 1799 Compromise Act following the Decree of Trenton decision to grant jurisdiction to Pennsylvania after a three part conflict called the Yankee Pennamite Wars. The annotation mentions that these lands were lost to the Connecticut claimants due to being located in Salem township, whereas some parts lying in Luzerne and Northampton are recoverable. This is because the 1799 Compromise act granted the Connecticut claimants rights to title in a designated 17 townships, some of which were Luzerne and Northampton. Wilkes University’s special collection, Susquehanna Conflict, 1771-1801, has a digitized manuscript of the drafted act of compromise.

Location

Luzerne County, PA.

Transcription Attempt:

List of Lands belonging to the North

Warrantee Names No of Acres To whom Patented Date of Warrant Date of Survey Date of Patent 1 Lewis Richards + ‘ John Kunkle + ‘Thomas Richardson + ‘ Jesse Scott ‘William Brink ‘Lewis Max ‘John Clingman+ ‘ Michael Stone + ‘ Arekilan Lewis+ ‘ David Scott (*) 400 ¾ 411.150 413.136

440.20 360.137 436. 441.64 426.127 441.70 441. 439.62

June 7th 1793

June 7t 1793

Aug[us]t 17th 1793

Aug[us]t 17th 1793

(Left) William Brink was sold Aug[us]t 9th 1803 to Nathan Beach said to be 448 acres for $9.16 (whole amount paid appears to be $18.20 And the same tract was sold Aug[us]t 19th 1903 to Nathan Beach 350 Acres for 9.20 (Amount marked $19.21 and the same tract was sold again Dec[e]m[ber] 8th 1813 408 ¼ acres to Jonathan Hancock for taxes of 1802-1804-1806-1805-1807-1811-1812 for $11.81 amount marked $32.80 Jesse Scott was sold for taxes Aug[us]t 30th 1805 to John Evans & in 1816 part to George Chahoon and Part to Elias Hoyt

(Right) Remarks on the Those tracts marked thus (+) are situated wholly within the certified Township of Salem and having been certified to the Connecticut Settlers under the acts of 1799 & its supplemental are entirely lost to the Company Lewis Richards & John Kunkle are in part lost being partly in the Township

“ Israel Cope ‘ William P. Brady ‘William Gray ‘Nathan Beach ‘Isaiah Thomas ‘James McNeal ‘John Brady ‘Thomas Paschall ‘Samuel Scott ‘Samuel Hicks ‘William Sansom ‘Jeremiah Smith Half of ¾th of ‘Daniel Smith ‘Henry Smithers 400.00 400.00 400.00 400.¾ 437 ⅓ 437 ⅓ 437 ⅓ 400 ¾ 400.00 400.00 400.00 400.00

400.00 400.00

Sep[te]m[ber] 17th1793 Sep[te]m[ber] 21st1793 Sep[te]m[ber] 20th1793 Sep[te]m[ber] 20th1793 Sep[te]m[ber] 21st1793 Sep[te]m[ber] 20th1793 Sep[te]m[ber] 20th1793 Sep[te]m[ber] 20th1793 Sep[te]m[ber] 22nd1793 Sep[te]m[ber] 23rd1793 Sep[te]m[ber] 23rd1793 Sep[te]m[ber] 23rd1793

Sep[te]m[ber] 24 1793 Sep[te]m[ber] 24 1793

(left) The Nathan parts of Daniel Smith and Henry Smithers is supposed to be in Luzerne and the remaining parts in Northampton btu no Reference to the line had yet been taken

(Right) Remarks on the That part of Jesse Scott John Kunkle & Lewis Richards which lies out of the Township and sold to John Koons Oct[ob]er 7 1819 by Chapman and Ballick

(*) NB [nota bene] The other land tracts are lost being within the certificates(?) Townships of Salem