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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 46: (search)
he Fort Stanwix Treaty, W. S. Johnson to Joseph Chew, 13 Feb. 1770. which conveyed from the Six Nations an inchoate title to the immense territory southwest of the Ohio, his influence secured its ratification, by organizing a powerful company to plant a Province in that part of the country which lay back of Virginia, between the Alleghanies and a line drawn from the Cumberland Gap to the mouth of the Scioto. See the elaborate Petition of Works. Benjamin Franklin to Congress, Passy, 20 Feb. 1780; not in his Virginia resisted the proposed limitation of her Chap. XLVI.} 1770. Oct. jurisdiction, as fatal to her interests; Washington to Botetourt, 15 April, 1770; Writings, II. 357. earnestly entreating an extension of her borders westward to the Tennessee River. It would be tedious to rehearse the earnest pleas of the Colony; the hesitations of Hillsborough, who wished to pacify her people, and yet to confine her settlements; the entreaties of Botetourt; the adverse Represen