Procurement of Settlers
Document 1786Instructions to Potter for procuring settlers for the associates' (Pickering, Hodgdon, Coxe, and Fisher) land. Includes the terms for the settlers as to improvement of the land, the number of acres to be alotted to each of the settlers, and the terms of payment.
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[document is a letter wrapper/cover sheet, rotated; address panel reads:]
Col. Henry [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Commanding [undecipherable]
Marion [Court House?]
[marginalia, upper right, columns of figures, largely undecipherable]
[marginalia, left edge:] Jan 11 [undecipherable]
[marginalia, lower left, multiple lines, undecipherable]
[marginalia, right edge, column of figures, undecipherable]
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Instructions to Potter for procuring settlers for the associates' (Pickering, Hodgdon, Coxe, and Fisher) land. Includes the terms for the settlers as to improvement of the land, the number of acres to be alotted to each of the settlers, and the terms of payment.
Date
03/17/1786
Author
Recipient
Collection
Document number
1786031700001
Page start
1
Note
The first page image gives as addressee "Colonel Henry Lee or commanding officer, Macon County" but does not appear to be associated with the other pages.
Notable persons
General James Potter
Timothy Pickering
Samuel Hodgdon
Tench Coxe
M Fisher
agent
settlers
children
Minister of the Gospel
schoolmaster
tenants
Duncan Ingraham
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Simamehonen Creek
Notable items
settlement
lands
surveying
saw mill
grist mill
acres
lots
pounds
cash
surveys
residence
payment
bonds
mortgages
interest
communication
road
wagons
instruction in religion
learning
glebe
school
duties
offices
improvements
propriety
economy
farms
spring
instructions