View of the title to Indiana, a tract of country on the river Ohio. Containing Indian conferences at Johnson-Hall, in May, 1765---the deed of the Six Nations to the proprietors of Indiana---the minutes of the congress at Fort Stanwix, in October and November, 1768---the deed of the Indians, settling the boundary line between the English and Indians lands---and the opinion of counsel on the title of the proprietors of Indiana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wharton, Samuel, 1732-1800 14841

Contributor:

Bancroft, Edward, 1744-1821

Language:

English

Physical Description:

46,[2]p. ; 4°.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Styner and Cist, in Second-Street, near Arch-Street, M DCC LXXVI. [1776]

Notes:

Referring to a tract of land now in the northwestern part of West Virginia and not to the present state of Indiana.

In a letter to Benjamin Franklin, August 7, 1775, Edward Bancroft states that he and Samuel Wharton wrote this pamphlet . Cf. Alvord, C.W. The Mississippi Valley in British politics, v. 2. p. 317.

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Cited in:

Evans 15219