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Colonial History, vn, 956.

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

Sundry individuals of Connecticut had, after exploring the Susquehanna valley, determined to locate a settlement at Wyoming. The territory being regarded as the property of the Six Nations, although in the occupation of the Lenapes and their confederated clans, a deputation was sent to Albany to confer with them and effect

its

purchase.

The governor of Pennsylvania promptly

interposed objections to the procedure, that province

were instructed

to

and the delegates from

prevent

The motive was entirely selfish.

possible.

its

consummation if

The proprietaries

of Pennsylvania were also in attendance seeking the purchase of the same lands.

The Connecticut agents succeeded, through The tract purchased extended about

the aid of Colonel Lydius.

seventy miles north and south, and from a parallel line ten miles east of the Susquehanna, westward two degrees of longitude,

and included the whole valley of Wyoming and the country westward to the sources of the Alleghany. Failing to secure this tract for themselves, the proprietaries of Pennsylvania added

to their purchase of 1737, "a tract of land between the Blue mountain and the forks of the Susquehanna river." These

purchases were not made in open council with the representatives of the Iribes, but from a few of the chiefs, several of whom

when they signed the deed of but the purchasers, and especially the Connecticut conveyance;

were

a

in

upon their validity. convention of deputies from the several colonies was

company,

The

state of intoxication

continued

insisted

in session until July