The Beginnings of the German Element in York County, Pennsylvania |
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Page 41 - ... to be bounded on the north by the beginning of the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, and on the south by a circle drawn at twelve miles...
Page 159 - This Province has been for some years the Asylum of the distressed Protestants of the Palatinate, and other parts of Germany, and I believe it may with truth be said that the present flourishing condition of it is in a great measure owing to the Industry of those People...
Page 201 - The Fatherland: 1450-1700, showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration, and development of the western continent, with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Page 66 - America, to be paid to the said or his certain attorney, executors, administrators, or assigns: to which payment well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these presents.
Page 73 - Bartholomew, at the place aforesaid, according to the method of townships appointed, the said quantity of 200 acres, if not already surveyed or appropriated, and make return thereof into the secretary's office, in order for further confirmation ; for which this shall be your sufficient warrant : which survey, in case the said Bartholomew fulfil 1824.
Page 158 - They always prefer good land or that land on which there is a large quantity of meadow ground. From an attention to the cultivation of grass, they often double the value of an old farm in a few years, and grow rich on farms, on which their predecessors of whom they purchased them, have nearly starved.
Page 73 - Susquehannah down so far south as fifteen miles and one quarter of a mile south of the latitude of the most southern part of the city of Philadelphia...
Page 73 - ... already surveyed or appropriated, and make return thereof into the secretary's office in order for further confirmation, for which this shall be your sufficient warrant. Which, survey, in case the said Thomas Cookson fulfil the above agreement within six months from the date hereof, shall be valid ; otherwise void.
Page 73 - River, in the said county of Lancaster, for which he agrees to pay to our use the sum of fifteen pounds ten shillings, current money of this province, for each hundred acres ; and the yearly quitrent of one halfpenny sterling for every acre thereof.
Page 14 - Company, after a little Consideration, I ordered him to Locate and Survey some part of the Right I possessed, viz. ; only five hundred acres upon that Spot on the other Side Sasquehannah, which was like to prove a Bone of Contention, and breed so much mischief, and he did so accordingly upon the 4th and 5th days of this Instant April, after which I returned to Conestogoe, in order to discourse with the Indians upon what had happened.14 He was none too soon with his scheme to forestall the Maryland...