Procurement of Settlers: Page #2 Original title: 1786/ede20_2.jpg Protection: Open to all Expiration: Never Status: Completed Mark this revision as complete Cancel Procurement of Settlers: Page #2 Go full screenExit full screen Layout Reset Philadelphia March 7. 1786. [illegible] It being our determination to form an early settlement on the lands you are serving for [illegible] and our associates, we have concluded to offer the following encouragement to such substantial persons as shall be willing to become settlers thereon. 1. To the person or persons who will undertake to erect a saw mill and grist mill in situations which shall to you or other agent by us appointed appear most suitable for the accommodation of the greatest body of the expected settlers, we will gran[t] two hundred acres of land adjoining to and meet- ing the requisite mill seats for that two mills afore- said at the rate of twenty pounds per hundred [word cut off] to be paid in the [illegible] other settlers are to pay for their lots, as hereafter mentioned. We will also give to such undertakers. One hundred and twenty eight pounds in cash, to assiss him in erecting these Mills. 2. The first of fifty settlers shall be at liberty to choose in what surveys they will fix their residence. Such surveys shall be divided, the four hundred acre lots into the [illegible words] lots in two [illegible] thirds and the one thousand acre lots into fourths or fifths and the parts to be granted to the settlers shall [word cut off] be determined by lot; so that they do not take up more than half of any one survey-- that the quantity taken up by each settler do not exceed two hundred or three hundred acres--and that the whole lie together in one lot. For the land is to be granted the company will accept of twenty Page 2 EDE 20