Subjects: '; “...Land tenure Pennsylvania Wyoming Valley....”

Contents or Abstract: '; “...Minutes of the Susquehanna Company -- An examination of the Connecticut claim -- Connecticut records examined by Pennsylvania -- The Dutch records of New Netherlands -- Letters from the Pennsylvania claimants -- Letters from the secretary of the land office -- Letters from the commissioners -- Book of fifteen townships -- Journal of the commissioners, 1810 -- Miscellaneous papers relating to the Wyoming controversy -- Index....”

Contents or Abstract: '; “...Introduction : a farmer's revolution -- "Among quarrelsome Yankees, insidious Indians, and lonely wilds" : natives, colonists, and the Wyoming controversy -- "A great many wrangling disputes" : authority, allegiance, property, and the frontier war for independence -- "A dangerous combination of villains" : the social context of agrarian resistance -- "All the difficulties of forming a new settlement" : frontier migration, land speculation, and settler insurgency -- "A perfect union with the people" : cultures of resistance along the revolutionary frontier -- "Poor and ignorant but industrious settlers" : frontier development and the path to accommodation -- "Artful deceivers" : Yankee notables and the resolution of the Wyoming controversy -- Epilogue : closing the revolutionary frontier....”

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