Papers respecting intrusions by Connecticut claimants.

The committee to whom was referred a motion of the delegates of the state of Connecticut relative to a cession of part of that state's claim to western territory,- : beg leave to report the following resolution ...
Published: (1786)

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)

Mode of partition, of the Western Reserve.
Published: (1796)

Supplementary articles of agreement.
Published: (1796)

Copy of a letter, from the Honorable Cyrus Griffin, Esquire : one of the members of the Court of Commissioners, held at Trenton, for the decision of the controversy between Pennsylvania and Connecticut, to Barnabas Bidwell, Esquire, of Stockbridge.
by: Griffin, Cyrus, 1748-1810
Published: (1796)

The Connecticut Gore title, stated and considered : showing the right of the proprietors, to the lands lately purchased by them, from the state of Connecticut: lying west of the Delaware River.

The following is a copy of an act of assembly of our neighbours of Newyork [as printed]; in consequence of which no intruders attempt to settle on their lands, nor to send members to their legislature : An act to prevent intrusions on lands within the jurisdiction of this state, under pretence of title from the state of Connecticut. Passed 11th March, 1796.
Published: (1796)

I saw, the other day, in the Pennsylvania chronicle, a short state of the Connecticut people's claim to the lands at Wioming, on the Susquehanna : and as there are many very material facts and circumstances, relating to the title of those lands, which are not inserted therein ...
by: G. H.

Articles of agreement.
Published: (1795)

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 ...

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 ...

The State of the Mohegan fields, lying between the land granted to New-London on the south, and Norwich on the north, in Her Majesties colony of Connecticut.

Scheme of a lottery for one hundred thousand acres of land in the province of Pennsylvania.

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 ...

Report of the commissioners appointed by the General Assembly of this colony, to treat with the proprietaries of Pennsylvania, respecting the boundaries of this colony and that province.

The Right of the governor and Company, of the colony of Connecticut, to claim and hold the lands within the limits of their charter, lying west of the province of New-York, stated and considered : in a letter to J.H. Esquire. : To which is added, an account of the purchase from the Indians, of part of those lands, by the Susquehannah and Delaware Companies, and their proceedings thereon.

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.

The Swedes petition to the House of Representatives of the province of Pennsylvania, the governor's letter thereupon to the Commissioners of Property, with their report in answer to the same.

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)

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 : Whereas it appears from authentic records and copies, that his late Majesty King James the First ...
Published: (1771)

The Susquehannah case.

New-Haven, March 11, 1774. At a meeting of the select-men in this town, on Monday last, the following petition signed by more than two hundred of the inhabitants of the town, was presented to them : To the select-men of the town of New-Haven. Gentlemen, We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of New-Haven, considering the alarming situation this colony is involved in by laying claim to the Susquehannah lands, and extending their jurisdiction over the same ...
Published: (1774)

Information relative to the title of the corporation to the north-east public-square, reported by the recorder, in pursuance of a resolution of the thirteenth of April, 1797.

By the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, governor and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania ... a proclamation : Whereas the Assembly of this province made the following resolves ... Given ... at Philadelphia, the twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four ...

Albany, February 16, 1798. Connecticut Gore : On Wednesday last, the House of Assembly, agreeable to the order of the day, proceeded to the consideration of the message of His Excellency the governor, and the papers from the Connecticut Gore Company ... resolved, that it would be improper for this state to appoint commissioners to treat or confer with commissioners of the part of Connecticut, relative to the dispute in question.

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.

The Connecticut Gore title, stated and considered : showing the right of the proprietors, to the lands lately purchased by them, from the state of Connecticut: lying west of the Delaware River.

Doct. Gale's letter, to J.W. Esquire : containing a narrative of the principal matters, of a public and interesting nature, which were subjects of the debates and resolves of the General Assembly of the colony of Connecticut, during their sessions in May, 1769. : [Three lines from Persius].
by: Gale, Benjamin, 1715-1790

By the president and the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a proclamation : Whereas the court of commissioners constituted ... to hear and finally determine the controversy between this state, and the state of Connecticut, respecting sundry lands lying within the northern boundary of this state ... Given in council ... at Philadelphia, this sixth day of January ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty three.

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.

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 ...

The committee to whom was referred the bill authorizing the acceptance, from the state of Connecticut, of a cession of the jurisdiction of the territory west of Pennsylvania, commonly called the Western Reserve of Connecticut, with directions to make a special report thereon.
Published: (1800)

The role of title insurance in Connecticut /
by: Johnson, Harry Mack
Published: (1968)

An act pass'd in the General Assembly held at Philadelphia for the province of Pennsylvania : The twenty second day of March, in the ninth year of His Majesties reign annoq; Domini 1722.

Report of the committee to whom was referred, on the 26th ultimo, the consideration of the expediency of accepting from the state of Connecticut, a cession of jurisdiction of the territory west of Pennsylvania, commonly called the Western Reserve of Connecticut : 21st March, 1800. Committed to a committee of the whole House on next Monday week. : (Published by order of the House of Representatives).
Published: (1800)

Treasury Department, August 8, 1796 : Public notice is hereby given, In pursuance of an act of Congress ... providing "for the sale of the lands of the United States, in the Territory North West of the River Ohio ... the quarter townships of land described in the annexed schedule ... will be exposed for sale at public vendue, at the Merchants' Coffee-House in Philadelphia, on the 4th day of January next ...
Published: (1796)