View of the Title to Indiana.

• imprint_number: 1779.005
• title: View of the title to Indiana, a tract of country on the river Ohio, containing Indian conferences at Johnson-Hall, in May, 1765; the deed of the Six Nations to the proprietors of Indiana; the minutes of the congress at Fort Stanwix, in October and November, 1768; the deed of the Indians, settling the boundary line between the English and Indians lands; and the opinion of counsel on the title of the proprietors of Indiana
• sequence_number: 5
• year: 1779
• place_issued: Williamsburg
• issuing_press: Dixon & Nicolson
• author: Wharton, Samuel (1732-1800) and Edward Bancroft (1744-1821).
• notes: Not to be confused with modern-day Indiana; this was a tract of land along the Ohio in the northwestern part of West Virginia which was granted to Wharton, Bancroft, and others well before the Revolutionary War; tract presents evidence for their primacy over squatters.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • John Dixon Sr.
  • Thomas Nicolson

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