Indiana is founded...
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March 07, 1782
SALEM GAZETTE, Salem, Mass., March 7, 1782.
* State of Indiana founded
* revolutionary war era
The ftpg. has a brief item on the death of Lord Thomas Fairfax, proprietor of Northern Virginia. He was the one who entrusted a young George Washington to survey & map the Fairfax estate in the Shenandoah Valley many years before. Most of the ftpg. is taken up with a fine account of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 1779. On the bkpg. under Philadelphia is a report stating in part: We hear that a committee of the Hon. Congress have made a favourable report on the petition of certain persons claiming a tract of land, behind Maryland, and joining the south west corner of Pennsylvania, named Indiana. This country, which extends between the Ohio and the Laurel hill, and contains about three millions and an half of acres was likely to be granted by England as an indemnification for losses... and more. In the same report is mention that Measures have been taken in order to settle the claim of the State of Connecticut, upon the north part of Pennsylvania, formerly a subject of debate. A pg. 2 report from Trenton discusses in detail a confrontation near Pleasant Valley with British troops. A report from Hartford states: No less than eleven thousand British prisoners are... cantoned in different parts of the United States. From Boston is: We learn...the inhabitants of the territories of the State of Vermont, did...relinquish all claims to the unions...they had formed on the eastern side of Connecticut river; as also the western union, which contained part of the State of New-York. Complete in 4 pages, untrimmed margins, small piece from the upper right margin of the front leaf is not close to any text. Generally in very nice, clean condition.
* State of Indiana founded
* revolutionary war era
The ftpg. has a brief item on the death of Lord Thomas Fairfax, proprietor of Northern Virginia. He was the one who entrusted a young George Washington to survey & map the Fairfax estate in the Shenandoah Valley many years before. Most of the ftpg. is taken up with a fine account of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 1779. On the bkpg. under Philadelphia is a report stating in part: We hear that a committee of the Hon. Congress have made a favourable report on the petition of certain persons claiming a tract of land, behind Maryland, and joining the south west corner of Pennsylvania, named Indiana. This country, which extends between the Ohio and the Laurel hill, and contains about three millions and an half of acres was likely to be granted by England as an indemnification for losses... and more. In the same report is mention that Measures have been taken in order to settle the claim of the State of Connecticut, upon the north part of Pennsylvania, formerly a subject of debate. A pg. 2 report from Trenton discusses in detail a confrontation near Pleasant Valley with British troops. A report from Hartford states: No less than eleven thousand British prisoners are... cantoned in different parts of the United States. From Boston is: We learn...the inhabitants of the territories of the State of Vermont, did...relinquish all claims to the unions...they had formed on the eastern side of Connecticut river; as also the western union, which contained part of the State of New-York. Complete in 4 pages, untrimmed margins, small piece from the upper right margin of the front leaf is not close to any text. Generally in very nice, clean condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
