To the Honorable General Assembly, now in session, at New-Haven : The present claimants, and proprietors of the lands purchased of this state, commonly called the Gore ...

In General Assembly. Tuesday, February 6, 1798 : An act to provide for unsatisfied warrants for cases where lands have been surveyed out of the state and balances due from the land office.
Published: (1798)

An act relative to donation lands.

By the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, governor and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania ... a proclamation : Whereas I have received information, that several ill-disposed persons ... have lately presumed to seat themselves upon lands ... not as yet purchased of the Indians ... I ... issue this my proclamation ... requiring all ... persons, already settled or residing on any lands beyond the boundary line of the last Indian purchase, immediately to evacuate their illegal settlements ... Given ... at Philadelphia, the twentieth day of September ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-three.

Second Congress of the United States: At the first session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one : An act for carrying into effect a contract between the United States and the state of Pennsylvania.

An act to remove the persons now settled, and to prevent others from settling on any lands in this province, not purchased of the Indians.

Some account of the Province of Pennsilvania in America : lately granted under the great seal of England to William Penn &c. : together with priviledges and powers necessary to the well-governing thereof : made publick for the information of such as are, or may be disposed to transport themselves, or servants into those parts.
by: Penn, William, 1644-1718
Published: (1681)

Some account of the Province of Pennsilvania in America : lately granted under the great seal of England to William Penn &c. : together with priviledges and powers necessary to the well-governing thereof : made publick for the information of such as are, or may be disposed to transport themselves, or servants into those parts.
by: Penn, William, 1644-1718

Land-Office, 17th of June, 1765 : The honourable the proprietaries having been apprized that many persons have been, and still continue, in the practice of taking up large quantities of land within this province, only with a design to retail them out at advanced prices ...

Advertisement. Pennsylv. ss : Whereas in pursuance of divers warrants issued and granted, as well by the late commissioners of property, as by the proprietary himself, since his arrival in this province, sundry tracts of land have been survey'd and settled ...

By the Honourable Richard Penn, Esquire, lieutenant-governor, and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania ... a proclamation : Whereas ... the Connecticut intruders ... have lately extended their unlawful possessions ... within this province ... I ... issue this proclamation, hereby strictly enjoining and requiring ... all and every person and persons, already settled, or residing on the said lands ... without the licence of the proprietaries, or authority from this government, immediately to evacuate their settlement ... Given ... at Philadelphia, the twenty-second day of June ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-two.

By the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, lieutenant-governor, and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania ... a proclamation : Whereas by an act of General Assembly of this province, passed in this present year, it is, among other things, provided and enacted, that if any person or persons, settled upon any lands within the boundaries of this province ... Given ... at Philadelphia, the twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight ...

By the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, lieutenant-governor, and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania ... a proclamation : Whereas I have received information, that many ill-disposed persons ... have ... seated themselves upon lands within this province, not yet purchased of the natives ... I have therefore thought fit to issue this proclamation, hereby strictly enjoining and requiring ... all persons whatsoever, who have made any such settlements ... immediately to evacuate and abandon them ... And whereas it has been reported that a certain Frederick Stump ... had my ... authority for making such settlement; I do hereby declare, that the said report is utterly false and groundless, and ... that, on the contrary, I have constantly denied every application of that kind. Given ... at Philadelphia, the twenty-third day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six ...

To farmers : Large tracts of land in Loyalsock Township, Lycoming County, are now parcelled off in lots for settlement. ...
by: Tulloh, Andrew, -approximately 1802
Published: (1800)

Town of Woodstock : Whereas I John Hopwood, of Fayette-County, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, have surveyed and laid out into convenient lots or parcels, for the purpose of erecting a town thereon, the quantity of two hundred acres of land, being part of that tract of land on which I now live, situate in Union Township ...
by: Hopwood, John, 1745-1802

By the Honourable James Hamilton, Esq; president, and the Council of the province of Pennsylvania, a proclamation : Whereas a number of persons, chiefly of the colony of Connecticut, have lately ... possessed themselves of, and settled upon a large tract of land on the River Susquehanna ... Given ... at Philadelphia, the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one ...

By the Honourable George Thomas, Esq; lieutenant governor and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania ... A proclamation : Whereas by the express order of the Hon. the Proprietaries, no warrant or license has issued out of the land office for taking up or settling any lands in the county of Lancaster, to the westward of the Kittochtinny-Hills otherwise called the Endless or Blue Mountains ... Given at Philadelphia under my hand ... the fifth day of October 1742 ...

To the Honorable General Assembly, now in session, at New-Haven : The present claimants, and proprietors of the lands purchased of this state, commonly called the Gore, by their subscribing agents, beg leave, once more to represent ...
Published: (1800)

By the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, lieutenant-governor, and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania ... a proclamation : Whereas a number of persons, chiefly belonging to the colony of Connecticut, have ... made attempts to possess themselves of, and settle upon a large tract of land within the limits of this province ... Given ... at Philadelphia, the sixteenth day of May ... one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine.

To the honorable the General Assembly of the colony of Connecticut : to be held at Hartford, in said colony, on the second Thursday in May, 1771.
Published: (1771)

By the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania : Whereas many of the inhabitants of this province, have, for several years past, neglected to appear at the places, by their patents, or by act of Assembly, appointed for the receipt of our quit-rents, and pay the same, by which neglect they are greatly in arrear ...

Papers respecting intrusions by Connecticut claimants.

Papers respecting intrusions by Connecticut claimants.

Notice is hereby given to the surveyor-general, and the deputy surveyors of the several districts within the last Indian purchase : that ... all persons engaged in purchasing and locating lands within the last Indian purchase, are desired to take notice, and avoid the said lands ...
Published: (1785)

Reclaiming abandoned mine lands one parcel at a time : Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
Published: (2015)

By the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania : Whereas great numbers of people have heretofore obtained from our commissioners of property, and lately from ourselves, warrants directed to our surveyor-general, for surveying to them the quantities of land mentioned in their respective warrants, for which they agreed to pay to us the consideration-money and quit-rent therein specified and reserved ...

Ordinance granting bounties of land to volunteers : whereas, many individuals from the United States and elsewhere, have left their homes of peace. ...

Proposed Texan Association : an explanatory paper designed for private distribution.
Published: (1840)

Texas : the undersigned was appointed to examine the surveys made for the colonists in Burnet's, Vehlier's, and Zavala's colonies ...
by: Henrie, Arthur
Published: (1838)

An act for limiting the time for persons claiming lands by virtue of warrants of survey, allotments, nominal titles, or possession, derived from and under the late honourable trustees for establishing the colony of Georgia, their president and assistants, or any others acting by and under their authority.

The life of Artemas Ward : the first Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolution.
by: Martyn, Charles, 1874-
Published: (1970)

Rio Grande and Texas Land Company : information to the emigrant who is desirous of settling in grants now colonizing by the Rio Grande and Texas Land Company ...
Published: (1834)

No laughing matter : the autobiography of a WASP /
by: Halsey, Margaret, 1910-1997
Published: (1977)

A Defence of the legislative constitution of the province of Pennsylvania, as it now stands confirmed and established, by law and charter : With some observations on the proceedings published by sixteen members of Assembly, in a paper, entitled, The votes and proceedings of the House of Representatives: : recommended to the consideration of all the free-men of the province.

By the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, lieutenant-governor, and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania ... a proclamation : Whereas a number of persons ... have lately ... made attempts to possess themselves of, and settle upon a large tract of land within ... this province ... I have ... judged it proper to issue this my proclamation ... enjoining and requiring ... all and every person and persons, already settled and residing on the said lands, without the licence of the proprietaries, or authority from this government, immediately to evacuate their settlements ... Given ... at Philadelphia, the twenty-eighth day of June ... in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy.

Philadelphia, January 29, 1761. Advertisement : All persons settled in the proprietaries manor of Springton, are to take notice, that their plantations will certainly be exposed to sale, at public vendue, unless they come and agree with us the subscribers, the proprietaries agents, for their manors and appropriated tracts, on or before the first day of May next ...

Fits and starts : the premature memoirs of /
by: Ward, Andrew, 1946-
Published: (1978)