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In 1793, they aided in the purchase of 1,600 acres (6 km 2) of land in northeastern Pennsylvania, which was then wilderness. An area of 300 acres (1.2 km 2 ) was laid out as a town plot including a 2-acre (8,100 m 2 ) market square, a grid of broad streets and 413 lots, approximately one-half acre each.
Asylum Township is a township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 999 at the 2020 census. [2] The town contains the historic site of French Azilum.
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The map was reprinted several times before 1793. Filson's plan for a second edition, to be endorsed by George Washington, fell through. Filson's 1784 map of Kentucky. The book was almost immediately translated into French and re-published in Paris (1785) and somewhat later a German edition appeared (Leipzig, 1790).
In 1793, the French Catholic settlement of French Azilum was founded on the banks of the Susquehanna River near Standing Stone. It was meant as a refuge for French aristocrats fleeing persecution in the French Revolution and slave uprisings in the French colony of Saint-Domingue . [ 6 ]
The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.
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A survey of the French book trade in Philadelphia in the 1790s. New Kensington, Penn. : Pennsylvania State University, 1985? Welsh, Frank S. 30 Washington Street, ca. 1790s, Easton, Maryland : comparative microscopic paint & color analysis of the interior and exterior to determine the nature and color of the original architectural surface coatings