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    The Phelps and Gorham Purchase was the sale, in 1788, of a portion of a large tract of land in western New York State owned by the Seneca nation of the...
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    Line"), and all the way to the Niagara River and Lake Erie (the "Phelps and Gorham Purchase"). In order to obtain title to such land, Phelps and Gorham would...
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  • The Pulteney Association (category Former regions and territories of the United States)
    British investors who in 1792 purchased a large portion of the Western New York land tract known as the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The Pulteney Associates...
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    Franklin sold 12,000,000 acres (49,000 km2; 19,000 sq mi) of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase east of the Genesee River in New York state to The Pulteney Association...
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    the Phelps and Gorham Purchase in 1792 and 1793, an area that afterward was known as the Holland Purchase. Additional lands were purchased in northwest...
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    Robert Morris (financier) (category American prisoners and detainees)
    Morris used the money from this sale to purchase the remainder of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, then turned around and sold much of that land to the Holland...
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    Field Notes of Col. Hugh Maxwell's Pre-emption Line Survey in the Phelps and Gorham Purchase transcribed by John M. Robortella For Animations of these Land...
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  • Fulton County, Ohio Gorham's Bluff, Alabama Gorham's Cave, sea cave and prehistoric settlement site in Gibraltar Phelps and Gorham Purchase, a 1788 land deal...
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    include the area of the Holland Purchase and the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The area is primarily served by Buffalo and Rochester media markets, although...
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    Title of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. Rochester Historical Society. p. 33. Archived from the original on March 25, 2015. "Oliver Phelps". Ohio Historical...
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