A Brief History of York County (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Brief History of York County Soon after William Perm made his treaty with the Indians at Philadelphia in 1682, under the famous elm tree, he laid off the eastern part of his province into three counties, Chester, Philadelphia and Bucks. In 1696 an emissary was sent to central New York, the seat of government of the Five Nations of Indians, who by right of conquest over the native tribes along the Susquehanna, claimed the territory of what is now Central Pennsylvania. A provisional treaty was made January 15, 1696, with the five nations for all the tract of land lying on both sides of the Susquehanna. This treaty was confirmed by the Susquehannock Indians September 18, 1700, in a deed given by two chiefs of that tribe. But the Conestoga Indians, a small tribe located along the river a few miles south of the present site of Columbia, claimed that the Indians mentioned above had no right to make a treaty conveying the lands to the proprietor of Pennsylvania. William Penn, upon his second trip to America, visited the Conestoga Indians and in the presence of their chiefs, unfolded the deed or parchment, laid it on the ground before them and with the gentle words of a loving parent, said: "The lands along the Susquehanna shall lie in common between ray people and your people and we will dwell in peace together." In 1722, four years after the death of William Penn, Sir William Keith, governor of the province of Pennsylvania, met the chiefs of the Conestoga Indians and obtained permission to survey a tract of 2,000 acres west of the Susquehanna extending from the site of Wrightsville to the mouth of the Codorus. This he named his "Newberry Tract," which was believed to have rich mineral deposits. The same year, after another council with the Conestogas, he obtained permission of them to survey 64,000 acres of land on the west side of the river to prevent the encroachments of Maryland "squatters." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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