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Map of Phelps and Gorham Purchase 1802–1806. 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 Iroquois Confederacy to a syndicate of land developers led by Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham.
1788 Apr 1 – Massachusetts agrees to sell all of its preemptive rights to Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham of Massachusetts. 1788 Jul 8 – Phelps and Gorham purchase from the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) tribes land amounting to some 2,600,000 acres. 1788 Jul 25 – Colonel Hugh Maxwell begins survey of the first (false) preemption line.
Phelps and Gorham were to pay $1,000,000 in three equal annual installments for this land, payable in certain Massachusetts securities that were then valued at 20 cents on the dollar. Under the terms of the purchase agreement, they took title only when they had extinguished the Indian title.
His purchase from Massachusetts was for some 3,750,000 acres (15,200 km 2), divided into five parcels, [14] which contained all lands west of the Genesee River [1] [15] except for the 185,000 acres (750 km 2) of the Mill Yard Tract, which Phelps and Gorham retained along with their other lands east of the Genesee.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Phelps is a town in Ontario County, ... The town was part of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The region was first settled ...
Iroquois lands circa 1720 A map showing the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, the Morris Reserve, and the Holland Purchase. Aboriginal title in New York refers to treaties, purchases, laws and litigation associated with land titles of aboriginal peoples of New York, in particular, to dispossession of those lands by actions of European Americans.
Phelps and Gorham wanted to buy 2,600,000-acre (11,000 km 2), but the Indians refused to sell the rights to any land west of the Genesee River. Phelps suggested that the Indians could take advantage of a grist mill to grind their maize which would relieve the women of the grinding work.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... 1788 Phelps and Gorham purchased title to lands east from the Genesee River in New York to the ...