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| | New York Books - Delaware County |
 | | The Hardenburgh Patent, embracing ten miles square, lying south of the east branch of the Delaware, was granted April 10, 1708, to Johannes Hardenburgh, of Kingston, Ulster County, and associates, who had previously purchased the lands of the Indians. |
 | | A tract of 250,000 acres, between the western branch of the Delaware and a line a mile east from the Susquehanna, was bought from the Indians at "Johnson Hall," Montgomery County, June 14, 1768, by John Harper, Sen, and Gen. Wm., Joseph, and Alex. |
 | | Under their grant of ten miles square the proprietors of the Hardenburgh Patent claimed all the land between the branches of the Delaware, and leased it to actual settlers. |
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