Georgia speculation unveiled; : in two numbers. / By Abraham Bishop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bishop, Abraham, 1763-1844, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31830.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Georgia Mississippi Company.

New England Mississippi Land Company.

State of facts. Shewing the right of certain companies to the lands lately purchased by them from the state of Georgia.

Yazoo Fraud, 1795.

Land grants--Georgia.

Land grants.

Georgia.

Public lands--Georgia.

Public lands.

Georgia--History--1775-1865.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (39 pages, 1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

Hartford: : Printed by Elisha Babcock. (Copy-right secured.), 1797.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

"This pamphlet is an actual, though not a literal answer to the 'State of facts,' published by the Georgia Companies."--p. [2].

Relating to the second Yazoo sale, whereby Georgia disposed of 22 million acres of her western lands to four land companies in January 1795. The sale was annulled February 1796, but not before the Georgia Mississippi Company, one of the four, had disposed of a part of its holdings to the New England Mississippi Company.

First of two parts. Part two, containing numbers three and four (Evans 33425), has imprint: Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin. M,DCC,XCVIII.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 31830).

Cited in:

Evans 31830

Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 362

OCLC:

62825229

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