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	Phelps and Gorham Purchase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Phelps and Gorham Purchase was the purchase in 1788 of the pre-emptive right to some 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km²) of land in western New York State for $1,000,000 (roughly equivalent to $20,000,000,000 in 2005).
		The purchasers were Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham, both of Massachusetts, and the seller was the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
		The Phelps and Gorham lands east of the Genesee River that had not already been sold were also acquired by Robert Morris in August 1790 -- some 1,200,000 acres (4,900 kmandsup2) -- who re-sold them to The Pulteney Association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phelps_and_Gorham_Purchase (770 words)

	Nathaniel Gorham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nathaniel Gorham (May 27, 1738 – June 11, 1796) was the eighth President of the United States in Congress assembled, under the Articles of Confederation.
		In connection with Oliver Phelps, he purchased from the state of Massachusetts in 1788 pre-emption rights to an immense tract of land in western New York State which straddled the Genesee River, all for the sum of $1,000,000 (the"Phelps and Gorham Purchase").
		Phelps and Gorham were unable to fulfill their contract in full to Massachusetts, so in 1790, they surrendered back to Massachusetts that portion of the lands which remained under the Indian title, namely, the land west of the Genesee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nathaniel_Gorham (457 words)

	history of new york (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Phelps and Gorham, however, ran into financial difficulties, and after making the first installment payment in 1789, they defaulted in 1790.
		At the north end of the Morris Reserve, a 87,000 acre triangular shaped tract (the "The Triangle Tract") was sold by Morris to Herman Leroy, William Bayard and John McEvers, while a 100,000 tract due west of the Triangle Tract was sold to the State of Connecticuit.
		The Phelps and Gorham lands east of the Genesee River that had not already been sold were also acquired by Robert Morris in August 1790 -- some 1,200,000 acres -- who re-sold them to the Pulteney Association.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /History_of_New_York.html (1939 words)

	Morris Reserve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was originally part of the 6,000,000 acre (24,000 km²) purchase in April 1788 of the pre-emptive right to all of Massachusetts' lands in western New York by Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham (the "Phelps and Gorham Purchase").
		At the north end of the Morris Reserve, a 87,000 acre (352 km²) triangular shaped tract ("The Triangle Tract") was sold by Morris to Herman Leroy, William Bayard and John McEvers, while a 100,000 tract due west of the Triangle Tract was sold to the State of Connecticut.
		Other Phelps and Gorham lands east of the Genesee River eventually were purchased by Morris, who re-sold them to The Pulteney Association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Morris_Reserve (423 words)

	The Pulteney Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pulteney Association was a purchaser in 1792 of a large portion of the Western New York land tract known as the Phelps and Gorham Purchase.
		In 1788 Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham purchased all of Massachusetts' preemptive right to land in Western New York, some 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km²) (the "Phelps and Gorham Purchase").
		The Pulteney Purchase, or the Genesee Tract as it was also known, comprised all of the present counties of Ontario, Steuben and Yates, as well as portions of Allegany, Livingston, Monroe, Schuyler and Wayne counties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Pulteney_Association (435 words)

	Phelps and Gorham Purchase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Phelps and Gorham Purchase was the purchase in 1788 of the preemptive right to some 6,000,000 acres of land in western New York State for $1,000,000.
		This 184,300 acre (746 km²) tract west of the Genesee was known as The Mill Yard Tract, so named because Phelps and Gorham asked the Indians for land west of the Genesee at the Falls so they could build a sawmill and gristmill.
		The Phelps and Gorham lands east of the Genesee River that had not already been sold were also acquired by Robert Morris in August 1790 -- some 1,200,000 acres (4,900 km²) -- who re-sold them to The Pulteney Association.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/phelps_and_gorham_purchase (766 words)

	Encyclopedia: Phelps and Gorham Purchase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Phelps and Gorham Purchase was the purchase in 1788 of the pre-emptive right to some 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km²) of land in western New York State for $1,000,000.
		This 184,300 acre (746 km²) tract west of the Genesee was known as The Mill Yard Tract, so named because Phelps and Gorham asked the Indians for land west of the Genesee at the Falls so they could build a sawmill and gristmill.
		The Phelps and Gorham lands east of the Genesee River that had not already been sold were also acquired by Robert Morris in August 1790 -- some 1,200,000 acres (4,900 km²) -- who re-sold them to The Pulteney Association.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Phelps-and-Gorham-Purchase (768 words)

	Buffalo and the Phelps Gorham Purchase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Phelps was appointed general agent, and to prevent complications opened negotiations with the lessees (the Livingston-Butler syndicate), promising Livingston and others several townships if the lessees would surrender their leases and procure from the Senecas a deed of cession to Phelps and Gorham.
		Phelps was so pleased with the location that he decided to found a town there if the place fell within his purchase.
		Phelps bought of the Indians for $5,000 and an annuity 'forever' of $500, a tract of 20,000 acres lying mainly between Seneca Lake and Genesee river, since known as the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, giving his bond therefore to the Seneca chiefs.
	www.buffalonian.com /history/articles/<1800/phelps.html (1768 words)

	Wayne County Historian Monthly Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Phelps and Gorham were to pay $300,000 in Massachusetts currency (about $.03 an acre in today's currency).
		Phelps and Gorham were to deal directly with the Indians and settle the land claims to the whole area.
		Phelps and Gorham met with representatives of the Six Nations at Buffalo Creek in July 1788 and secured from the Indians approximately 2,600,000 acres for which they paid $5,000 and a perpetual annuity of $500.
	www.co.wayne.ny.us /Departments/historian/MFSettlement.htm (666 words)

	History of Gorham, New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, without here making more detailed statements concerning the pioneer families of Gorham, the attention of the reader is directed to another department of this volume, wherein will be found further allusion to the early settlers of Gorham, and as well to their descendants and some of the later generations of inhabitants of the town.
		On the Gorham side of the village the generally called public institutions are the cemetery and the M. Church property, while the Congregational church is south of but very close to the line.
		However, on the separation of Hopewell from the mother town, and the annexation of a large territory from Canandaigua, the Gorham thus constituted was redistricted according to the convenience of the inhabitants.
	history.rays-place.com /ny/gorham-ny.htm (2379 words)

	Ontario County History
		Phelps meanwhile was informed that there had been a mistake in the marking of the Preemption Line, which would place his proposed settlement on lands not his own.
		Gorham, accompanied by General Chapin and others, came to the later chosen location and became the pioneers of the town of Canandaigua and the founders of the present county of Ontario.
		Phelps and Gorham were unable to find the means to pay their obligations and disposed of all the unsold lands to Robert Morris, in August, 1790, who shortly after parted with them to an English syndicate, represented by Charles Williamson, who aided greatly in the development of the district.
	www.hopefarm.com /ontariny.htm (877 words)

	Rochester, Monroe County, New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At the north end of the Morris Reserve, a 87,000 acre (350 km²) triangular shaped tract (the "The Triangle Tract") was sold by Morris to Herman Leroy, William Bayard and John McEvers, while a 100,000 tract due west of the Triangle Tract was sold to the state of Connecticut.
		Shortly after concluding the Treaty of Buffalo Creek, Phelps and Gorham gave a 100 acre (0.4 km²) lot within the Mill Yard Tract at the Upper Falls of the Genesee to Ebenezer "Indian" Allen, on condition he build a grist mill and sawmill there by summer 1789 (the "100 Acre Tract").
		Although Col. Rochester and his two partners purchased the 100 Acre Tract, they allowed the millsite to lie neglected and development did not begin in earnest until 1811, when they finally completed paying for their purchase and received the deed.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Rochester,-Monroe-County,-New-York.htm (4497 words)

	HISTORY OF NEW YORK FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This 184,300 acre (746 km²) tract west of the Genesee was known as The_Mill_Yard_Tract, so named because Phelps and Gorham asked the Indians for land west of the Genesee at the Upper Falls so they could build a sawmill and gristmill.
		At the north end of the Morris Reserve, a 87,000 acre (350 km²) triangular shaped tract ("The_Triangle_Tract") was sold by Morris to Herman Leroy, William Bayard and John McEvers, while a 100,000 acre (400 km²) tract due west of the Triangle Tract was sold to the State of Connecticut.
		Some purchases of Iroquois lands, especially those negotiated by agents representing the State of New York after 1795, are the subject of numerous modern-day land claims by the individual nations of the Six Nations.
	www.livingflowers.com /History_of_New_York (2302 words)

	Gorham China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Town of Gorham is at the south border of the county.
		Incorporated in 1836, Gorham is located in the White Mountains, and its main source of outside income comes from tourism.
		Scott Gorham was the lead guitarist in the rock band Thin Lizzy from Eric Bell's Departure in 1974 until its breakup in 1983.
	www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/38/gorham-china.html (2273 words)

	Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		[Footnote: Turner's Phelps and Gorham Purchase.] Had he lived until the war of the Revolution, it is supposed by some he might have remained neutral, and have kept the Indians from engaging in the conflict, though this is altogether uncertain.
		Phelps and Gorham were the leading spirits, having purchased the pre-emptive right of Massachusetts, in the spring of 1788, Mr.
		Phelps went on to the ground, and was successful in convening a council of the Indians for the sale of their lands, at Buffalo creek, during the month of July of the same year.
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	History_of_New_York
		This sale was of the preemptive right for all land west of a line running from the mouth of Sodus Bay on Lake Ontario, due south to the 82nd milestone on the Pennsylvania border near Big Flats (the "Preemption Line") all the way to the Niagara River and Lake Erie.
		This 184,300 acre (746 km²) tract west of the Genesee was known as The Mill Yard Tract, so named because Phelps and Gorham asked the Indians for land west of the Genesee at the Upper Falls so they could build a sawmill and gristmill.
		At the north end of the Morris Reserve, a 87,000 acre (350 km²) triangular shaped tract ("The Triangle Tract") was sold by Morris to Herman Leroy, William Bayard and John McEvers, while a 100,000 acre (400 km²) tract due west of the Triangle Tract was sold to the State of Connecticut.
	www.hatwholesalers.com /search.php?title=History_of_New_York (2050 words)

	SettlementSteuben
		Phelps and Gorham by treaty, at a convention held in Buffalo, in July, 1788.
		The purchasers speedily caused their lands to be surveyed and divided into seven ranges, numbered from east to west by lines running north and south.
		Phelps and Gorham, by deed dated the 18th day of November, 1790, conveyed to Robert Morris of Philadelphia, (the patriotic merchant of Revolutionary memory) the residue of their lands remaining unsold, amounting to about a million and a quarter acres.
	www.paintedhills.org /STEUBEN/SettlementSteuben.html (17888 words)

	The_Holland_Purchase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Holland Land Company was formed in 1796 by Wilheim Willink and a group of fellow Dutch bankers to purchase from Robert Morris a large tract of land in what is now western New York State, an area later known as the Holland Purchase.
		The office still exists and is a museum of the Holland Purchase, designated a National Historic Landmark.
		In 1802, the entire Holland Purchase, as well as the 500,000 acre (2,000 km²) Morris Reserve immediately to the east, was split off from Ontario County and constituted Genesee County.
	www.exoticfelines.com /search.php?title=The_Holland_Purchase (285 words)

	Finger Lakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Roughly the western half of the Finger Lakes region comprised the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of 1790, the largest land purchase in the world to that date.
		The Finger Lakes region, together with the Genesee Country of Western New York, has been referred to as the Burned-Over District, where, in the 19th century, the Second Great Awakening was a revival of Christianity, and some new religions were also formed.
		Most of the area was originally forested with oak, maple, chestnut, ask, hemlock, and beech trees, but the Iroquois maintained, by annual burning, the land between Cayuga and Seneca Lakes as prairie, with herds of bison, normally thought of as a western animal.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Finger_Lakes (769 words)

	History of Candor, NY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Between Chemung on the south, the military tract on the north, the Boston purchase on the east, and the vast Phelps and Gorham purchase on the west, there was in 1791 a large tract of ungranted land lying entirely within which was the town of Candor as afterward created.
		The entire purchase included twelve townships, and the present town of Candor is made up of parts of numbers nine, ten, eleven and twelve.
		In 1793 Joseph Booth purchased a lot for his son Orange F. Booth, when the latter was only twelve years old, and on this lot he came to live in 1801, thus founding a settlement by a family which became as prominent in the later history of the town as any within its borders.
	history.rays-place.com /ny/candor-ny.htm (8595 words)

	NYNY 1790-1794
		Phelps and Gorham's land sales lag and they sell a 20,000-acre tract west of the Genesee back to Massachusetts speculators from Springfield and Northampton.
		Land he purchased from Phelps and Gorham becomes the Steuben County town of Lindley.
		The Phelps and Gorham townships and the state's forts are portrayed.
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/NYNY1790.html (7863 words)

	BUFFALO - LoveToKnow Article on BUFFALO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The land was a part of the original Phelps-Gorham Purchase, and subsequently (about 1793) came into the possession of the Holland Land Company, being part of the tract known as the Holland Purchase.
		Joseph Ellicott, the agent of the company, who has been called the Father of Buffalo, laid out a town in 1801-1802, calling it New Amsterdam, and by this name it was known on the companys books until about 1810.
		Turner, History of the Holland Purchase (Buffalo, 1850); T. Hotchkin, history of Western New York (New York, 1845); and the sketch in Lyman P. Powells Historic Towns of the Middle States (New York, 1901).
	www.87.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BUFFALO.htm (2235 words)

	Niagara Falls Reporter
		While Phelps admired the skill and work ethic of the young frontiersman and surveyor, the admiration was mutual.
		Phelps told them he needed the land near the Genesee River to build mills, which "would be very convenient for the Indians themselves." He said he needed a tract 12 miles wide and 28 miles long for building mills.
		Phelps in the management and sale of his lands and in surveying for him." Later that year, he journeyed to Presque Isle, now Erie, Pa., and passed through Buffalo, where only three settlers lived.
	www.niagarafallsreporter.com /kostoff11.html (754 words)

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