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England to build settlements west of the Allegany Mountains...
England to build settlements west of the Allegany Mountains...
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October 26, 1767
THE NORTHAMPTON MERCURY, England, Oct. 26, 1767
* Rare British publication
* Pre Revolutionary War era
The front page has one bit noting: "...that the government, seeing the great advantages which may arise from the forming a settlement beyond the mountains in North America, have resolved on establishing a colony on the forks of the Ohio, in the country of the Illinois, which lies between the 36 and 37 degrees of Northern Latitude. We hear that the above-mentioned settlement is at the finest land in all North America...that the brave veteran General Lyman is to be made governor thereof...".
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, very wide margins, great condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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