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 | | Then, “in 1784, when the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania purchased the land from the Six Nations (at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix), Dunn made application for the island and was granted a patent,” signed and sealed on Oct. 13, 1785, for “30 pounds per 100 acres,” Meginness wrote. |
 | | Dunnstown was, therefore, “the oldest laid out and regularly plotted town in the West Branch Valley, excepting Northumberland (1772) and Lewisburg (1785),” Meginness wrote. |
 | | Unfortunately, as was the case throughout Pennsylvania and the rest of the new nation, due to the inevitable advancement of the white man’s civilization, the American Indians in the Dunnstown, Great Island and Lock Haven area were replaced. |
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