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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)
Susquehanna settlers.
The charter of James I., in 1620, to the Plymouth Company, covered the territory extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and lying between lat. 40° and 46° N. Connecticut purchased a part of this territory of the Plymouth Company in 1631, with the boundary the same on the west and lat. 41° on the south.
This sale was confirmed by Charles II.
in 1662.
The grant of Charles II.
to Penn extended to lat. 42° N. Thus the Connecticut grant overlapped that of Pennsylvania one degree.
In 1753 an association called the Susquehanna Company was formed, and, with the consent of the Connecticut Assembly, applied to the crown for leave to plant a new colony west of the Delaware.
It was granted, and the company sent agents to the convention at Albany in 1754, who succeeded in obtaining from representatives of the Six Nations the cession of a tract of land on the eastern branch of the Susquehanna River—the beautiful valley of Wyoming.
The proprietaries of Pennsylv<