Holland Purchase in Western New York + The Erie Canal ebooks

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Pioneer History of
The Holland Purchase
Of Western New York
Embracing
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT REMAINS;
A BRIEF HISTORY OF
OUR IMMEDIATE PREDECESSORS, THE CONFEDERATED IROQUOIS, THEIR SYSTEM
OF GOVERNMENT, WARS, ETC. A SYNOPSIS OF COLONIAL HISTORY:
SOME NOTICES OF THE BORDER WARS OF THE REVOLUTION:
AND A HISTORY OF
PIONEER SETTLEMENT
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE HOLLAND COMPANY;
INCLUDING
REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OF 18 12;
THE ORIGIN, PROGRESS AND COMPLETION OF THE
ERIE CANAL,
ETC. ETC. ETC.
By Orsamus Turner, 1850
670 pages, Illustrated, Indexed, Searchable
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Bonus Book –
The Erie Canal
And The Settlement of the West
By Lois Kimball Matthews, 1910
305 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
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Bonus Book –
Robert Morris
And The Holland Purchase
By John Kennedy, 1894
305 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
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When Phelps and Gorham defaulted on their 1790 installment, the preemptive right to lands of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase west of the Genesee River, comprising some 3,750,000 acres, reverted back to Massachusetts on March 10, 1791. On March 12, Massachusetts agreed to sell these rights to Robert Morris for 3,333.33. The land was conveyed to Morris in five deeds on May 11, 1791. At the time, Morris was the richest man in America, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a financier of the American Revolution.
Morris sold most of these lands in December 1792 and in February
and July 1793 to the Holland Land Company in a transaction known as the Holland Purchase. Morris kept 500,000 acres in a 12-mile-wide strip along the east side of the lands acquired from Massachusetts, from the Pennsylvania border to Lake Ontario, known as the Morris Reserve. At the north end of the Morris Reserve, an 87,000-acre triangular-shaped tract ("the Triangle Tract") was sold by Morris to Herman Leroy, William Bayard, and John McEvers, while a 100,000-acre tract due west of the Triangle Tract was sold to the State of Connecticut. In September 1797 Morris extinguished the remaining aboriginal title for all the lands west of the Genesee at the Treaty of Big Tree held at Geneseo, New York.
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it became clear to coastal residents that the city or state that succeeded in developing a cheap, reliable route to the West would enjoy economic success, and that the port at the seaward end of such a route would see business increase greatly. In time, projects were devised in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere.
The Erie Canal started construction in 1817 and was completed 8 years later. It was the first commercial link between New York East and the West. The Erie Canal cost million to construct and was acclaimed as one the greatest engineering marvels in the world. It united the country and helped NYC become the financial state it is. In 1809 New York delegation went to Washington DC to propose a funding for the Canal. Thomas Jefferson said to come back in a 100 years because the project would bankrupt the nation let alone the state. Yet, Dewitt who was head of the committee who later became governor did not listen. There was a lot of political opposition, but in 1817 the canal bill was passed.
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