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Greathouse of Bedford County, PA

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1768, Nov 5 - Treaty of Fort Stanwix

Commissioners were appointed to hold a treaty with the Six Nations at Fort Stanwix, November 5, 1768. The treaty was held, and in consideration of $10,000 the Indians conveyed another slice of their territory to the Penns on the Susquehanna. The boundary line is thus defined in the deed:

Beginning on the north boundary line of the Province to the east side of the east branch of the Susquehanna at the place called "Owegy," and running with the said boundary line down this branch till it came opposite the month of a creek, called by the Indians Awadac (Towanda), then across the river, and up said creek on the south side thereof, and along the range of hills called Burnett's Hills by the English, and by the Indians on the north side of them to the head of the creek running into the West Branch, called Tiadaghton, and down it to the river: then crossing and running up the south side to the forks which lie nearest a place called Kittanning, on the Ohio; from thence down the Ohio to the western bounds of the Province; thence around the southern boundary to the east of the Alleghenies to the line of the tract purchased in 1758 by the said Proprietaries, and from thence along the line of a tract purchased in 1749, around the place of beginning.

Sources:

Lycoming County, PA GenWeb Project. Treaty of Fort Stanwix, which defined the western boundaries of Pennsylvania and opened up land west of Fort Bedford and the Allegheny mountains, which was acquired in the New Purchase, for settlement. View @ Lycoming County, PA GenWeb Project

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