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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.
Where reliable foundation dates exist, articles should be categorised by year for 1500 and later, by decade from the 1200s to the 1490s, by century from the 10th century BC to the 13th century and by millennium for the 2nd millennium BC and earlier.
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.
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 ]
Map of eastern Pennsylvania showing important locations for the history of Joseph Priestley and the area. Following the French and Indian War (1755–63) and the forced migration of Native American tribes westward, German, Scots-Irish, and other European immigrants settled in the central Susquehanna Valley, including in the area that would become Northumberland, Pennsylvania. [1]
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).
French-American culture in Philadelphia (4 P) Pages in category "French-American culture in Pennsylvania" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.