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	The Ultimate The Holland Purchase - American History Information Guide and Reference
		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.
		A sales office for the Holland Land Coupany was opened in 1801 by surveyor and agent Joseph Ellicott in Batavia where land was sold until 1846 when the company was dissolved.
		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.historymania.com /american_history/Holland_Purchase (308 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for The Holland Purchase
		He gained the favor of James I, was knighted in 1611, and acquired wealth by the purchase of profitable offices.
		Roxburghshire, Scotland, was raised in Holland and immigrated to America in 1673 after his father died.
		Holland America Line: Amsterdam: the fleet's co-flagship is a refined world traveller.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=The+Holland+Purchase (0 words)

	Fuelman Gascard of Dallas/Fort Worth
		Holland was awarded the Conoco consigneeship for Tarrant and Dallas counties by his longtime friend, the irascible Dan Moran, President of Conoco, whose life it is rumored Holland had saved from a crew of justifiably outraged Mexican roughnecks years before.
		Barney B. Holland, Jr., the current president, refers to the Company, which has no warehouses, bulk storage, or trucks, as a “virtual distributor.” Indeed, the “Barney Holland Oil Company is still around because it knows how to adapt to a changing world,” said Barney B. Holland Jr., in a 1997 Dallas Business Journal article.
		The Barney Holland Oil Company has maintained its founder’s values over the years, and is proud to print Barney R. Holland’s statement shared with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on the Company’s 25th Anniversary in 1953, “Our company is home-owned and has taken its civic responsibility seriously.
	www.fuelmandfw.com /articles.asp?article=10 (0 words)

	The Pioneer History of Orleans County, NY, Ch. 4, The Holland Purchase
		It was purchased of Robert Morris by an association of Hollanders, in 1792-'93.
		The surveys of the Holland Purchase were begun on the east, at the Transit Line, and continued west dividing the whole territory into ranges and townships; the range lines running north to south, the townships from east to west.
		The Land Office was first established on the Purchase at Pine Grove, Clarence Hollow, in Erie county; but upon the organization of Genesee county, in 1802, the office was transferred to Batavia, where it remained until the affairs of the company were finally closed up in the year 1835.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/state/orl/ch4.html (0 words)

	New England Historic Genealogical Society
		Pioneers into western New York purchased their land not from the state, but by a contract with the Holland Land Company.
		This consortium of Dutch bankers purchased 3.3 million acres comprising present-day Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, western Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming counties.
		Turner, in his Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase, speaks of “the smoking ruins of the once pleasant, delightful and flourishing village of Buffalo” [4] and describes refugees streaming into Canandaigua.
	www.newenglandancestors.org /education/articles/research/localities/upstate_new_york/the_holland_purchase_pioneer_settlements_in_weste_659_10715.asp (0 words)

	Definition of The Holland Purchase
		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.
		A sales office for the Holland Land Coupany was opened in 1801 by surveyor and agent Joseph Ellicott in Batavia where land was sold until 1846 when the company was dissolved.
		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.wordiq.com /definition/The_Holland_Purchase (358 words)

	The Holland Purchase
		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.
		A sales office for the Holland Land Coupany was opened in 1801 by surveyor and agent Joseph Ellicott in Batavia where land was sold until 1846 when the company was dissolved.
		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.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/t/th/the_holland_purchase.html (308 words)

	Representative D. Stephen Holland
		Holland 02/04 (H) Died In Committee HB 434 Veterans; delete requirement of service during war or Holland armed conflict to qualify for preference in statewide personnel system.
		Holland % 02/04 (H) Died In Committee HB 637 State Soil and Water Conservation Commission; receive Holland one additional set of the Mississippi Code.
		Holland 02/04 (H) Died In Committee HB 946 Mississippi Agricultural and Livestock Theft Bureau; Holland expand duties of.
	billstatus.ls.state.ms.us /1997/House_authors/Holland.htm (1790 words)

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		(Holland) and Holland Glass Company, Inc. (Company) alleging that plaintiff was entitled to the return of $65,000.00 which plaintiff had deposited with the Company in anticipation of the purchase of stock.
		A receipt is contained in the record which reads: May 29, 1991 Received from Charles H. Weber, the sum of Fifty Thousand dollars ($50,000.00) as deposit for purchase of Holland Glass Company Inc. corporate stock.
		I further agree that should no formal purchase agreement be executed, all deposit sums ($50,000.00 received May 29, 1991 and $15,000.00 received July 19, 1991) shall be fully refunded including an amount equal to 8% annual interest accrued from date of receipt until final payment.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/nc-supreme-court/jun0794/holland (647 words)

	1827 -Buffalo Convention -Holland Purchase
		Such is the uniformity of the condition among the inhabitants of every part of the purchase, that a description of the affairs of a single settler will present a fair picture, with some slight shades of difference, of the pecuniary situation of two thirds, of our population.
		It is confined exclusively to residents, and its aggregate amount on the whole, Holland Purchase, is estimated at raising of $100,000 annually.
		The other, which may be called the supplemental tax, is optional with the inhabitants of the respective towns, who (in addition to the primary tax) are authorised to raise the sum not exceeding $250, to be levied on the whole property of the town, whether owned by residents or non-residents.
	www.buffalonian.com /hnews/1827buffaloconvention.html (1350 words)

	A Look Inside (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In early 1900, the Holland VI made numerous excursions on the Potomac River in Washington DC.
		A member of the crew (who looks a lot like John Holland) is seated on a stool facing a pair of 2000 psi air flasks with his left hand on an air valve handwheel and his right hand on the forward trim tank hull valve.
		The comments are based on an extensive study of the existing USS Holland drawings and related documents by Gary McCue.
	www.geocities.com /gwmccue/Holland_6/Inside.html (331 words)

	Holland Land Office Museum_History
		It was therefore from Massachusetts that Robert Morris purchased this four million acres of land in 1791.
		Joseph Ellicott, and his land office, were an integral cog in the economic machine of the Holland Land Company and were responsible for the settlement of roughly 3.5 million acres of land.
		In 1894 the Holland Purchase Historical Society was formed to restore the building and maintain it as a museum.
	www.hollandlandoffice.com /history.htm (903 words)

	Sport Artist of the Year 1993: Stephen Holland
		Holland says, "I like the drama of Sports the way you see it on a TV closeup — like a slow motion replay.
		As a child, he was handicapped and forced to watch his family and friends play sports, while the steel braces he wore on his legs prevented him from attending a normal school.
		Holland is best known for his outstanding portrait of the "Muhammad Ali." Originally commissioned for the Silver Anniversary of the Victor Awards (honoring Ali as "Athlete of the Century"), the painting was soon selected by Ali's wife as the image to represent him for his 50th birthday party.
	www.asama.org /awards/SportArtists/Artist1993.asp (539 words)

	New England Historic Genealogical Society
		A previous article discussed the role of the Holland Land Company in the settlement of western New York State.
		Relationship of Townships of the Holland Purchase and Towns and Counties
		Township 16, range 1 is the northeast corner of the Holland Purchase.
	www.newenglandancestors.org /education/articles/research/localities/upstate_new_york/records_of_the_hollandland_company_659_10716.asp (0 words)

	Holland shopping cart software for the ecommerce templates
		We've started off with the Dutch language files that will replace the US states with Holland's counties.
		If you have any suggestions for further content or new payment processors, please get in touch.
		Australia · Canada · España · France · Germany · Holland · Ireland · Portugal · South Africa · UK
	www.ecommercetemplates.com /regions/holland.asp (274 words)

	News \| TimesDaily.com \| TimesDaily \| Florence, AL (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Holland Purchase is a large tract of land in what is now western portion of the U.S. state of New York.
		The land bought by Holland Land Company was formed in 1796 by Wilheim Willink and a group of fellow Dutch bankers from Robert Morris.
		A sales office for the Holland Land Company was opened in 1801 by surveyor and agent Joseph Ellicott in Batavia where land was sold until 1846 when the company was dissolved.
	www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Holland_Purchase (344 words)

	Business: Holland and Knight trims its ranks
		It was the fifth-largest decline among the country's 250 largest law firms and dropped Holland's rank three spots to 14th, according to a report by the National Law Journal.
		Holland wants to focus on locales and practices that bear higher fees.
		By Sept. 30, the number of equity partners at Holland had fallen an extraordinary 21.7 percent, from 424 to 332.
	www.sptimes.com /2006/11/15/Business/Holland_and_Knight_tr.shtml (478 words)

	Museum Outreach (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Holland Land Company was organized by six banking firms in the Netherlands to purchase the unsettled land of western New York State.
		From the Holland Purchase, have been formed four counties and parts of four others, comprising 129 rural and suburban towns and 11 cities, which in 1960 had a population of more than 1,600,000.
		The Pulteney Purchase and that of the Holland Land Company divided the area into tracts for settlement.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /services/largemarkers/inventoryfive.html (2475 words)

	National Park Service - Founders and Frontiersmen (Holland Land Office)
		The company purchased for resale to settlers millions of acres of land west of the Genesee River in New York and in northern Pennsylvania.
		During the second half of the 19th century the land office at Batavia fell into ruins, but in 1894 the Holland Purchase Historical Society restored it and it is now in excellent condition.
		A museum commemorating the Holland Land Co. and western New York history, it is open to the public.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/founders/sitec29.htm (416 words)

	The Lure of the Land Promoter: A Bibliographical Study of Certain New York Real Estate
		The stories of the settlement of the various purchases have been told and retold but most writers either have not known of the rare promotion tracts and maps or have ignored them, not realizing their importance in pointing the way to the frontier lands.
		Though this first Holland Purchase sales talk did not even tell where the lands were located and though his company had not yet actually bought them, the issue of stock was bought up in a few days and the Holland Land Company was a going concern.
		As the surveys of the purchase progressed and more complete geographical information became available, Joseph and Benjamin Ellicott, the Company's surveyors, provided a new manuscript map which was engraved, presumably in Amsterdam, in 1800, for the use of the stockholders in Holland.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /index.cfm?PAGE=1008 (8235 words)

	A History of the Village of Lancaster, New York
		The remaining four, which constituted the "Holland Purchase," were sold in four conveyances, made in 1792 and 1793, to several Americans, acting as trustees for a number of Hollanders, who, being aliens, could not hold the land in their own name.
		One of the townships in the new county was Batavia, which consisted of the entire Holland purchase, and the State reservation along the Niagara River.
		In 1808, there was a reorganization of the counties and townships in the Holland Purchase, which made Lancaster a part of the town of Clarence.
	intotem.buffnet.net /lancasterpast/sesqui/hist1.htm (1395 words)

	Holland ( The Netherlands ) GSM SIM Card
		The Holland prepaid SIM card with a world cell phone is the most convenient and economical solution for staying in touch while in Holland.
		Your Holland SIM card's phone number is printed under the last bar code on the reverse side of the O2 packaging and begins 064...
		They may be purchased in denominations of 10 EUR or 20 EUR and you receive the equivalent in airtime.
	www.telestial.com /view_product.php?PRODUCT_ID=LSIM-NL01 (1105 words)

	New Holland - Australia
		But, impressed by test results from New Holland's Big Baler innovation, and endorsement from company representatives, he waited patiently for the new series baler to be released in Australia.
		Thomas purchased his first New Holland 317 baler for $3700 as a 16-year-old.
		He has kept, and still uses, his original New Holland D1210 baler, but says New Holland's commitment to technology ensures the future lies in the BB series.
	www.newholland.com /au/aol_winter2001/news_4a.htm (583 words)

	Holland & Hart Website Gallery
		Holland and Hart is dedicated to providing superior value by tailoring services to the particular needs of each client.
		Holland & Hart's Health Care Law attorney, Greg Piche, provides information dedicated to health care law issues in, or affecting, the Rocky Mountain West.
		The Holland & Hart Foundation builds community internally, locally and globally through charitable and educational activities and programs with present and former lawyers, staff and their families through service to the communities of which they are a part.
	www.hollandhart.com /hhaffiliates.htm (384 words)

	Holland Railpass - by rail in Holland
		The Holland Railpass entitles the holder to unlimited rail travel on the national rail network of Holland for 3 days in one month or 5 days in one month.
		The Holland Railpass is validated by you writing in the date of travel on the railpass BEFORE boarding the train.
		The Holland Railpass entitles holders to travel on Eurocity services in the Netherlands without the payment of a supplement, however does not entitle you to travel on THALYS services.
	www.railchoice.co.uk /holland_railpass.html?aid=19&prodid=18 (298 words)

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