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Greathouse of Bedford County, PA

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1769, Feb 23 - Announcement: Philadelphia Land Office Open

On 23 Feb 1769 the Penns published an advertisement for the benefit of the public to the effect that the land office in Philadelphia would be opened on 3 Apr 1769 at ten A.M. to received applications from all persons wishing to take up lands in the new purchase. The price of this land was fixed at five pounds sterling per 100 acres and a penny per acre per annum quit-rent. This new purchase was public land west of Allegheny Mountain, located near Fort Bedford, Cumberland County, PA.

The Land Office will be opened on the 3d day of April next, at 10 o'clock in the morning, to receive applications from all persons inclinable to take up lands in the New Purchase, upon terms of five pounds Sterling per hundred acres, and one penny per acre per annum quit-rent. No person will be allowed to take up more than three hundred acres, without a special license from the Proprietaries or Governor. The surveys upon all applications are to be made and returned within six months, and the whole purchase money paid at one payment, and patent taken out within twelve months from the date of the application, with interest and quit rent from six months after the application. If there be a failure on the side of the party applying in either proving his survey and return to be made, or in paying the purchase money and obtaining the patent, the application and survey will be utterly void, and the Proprietaries will be at liberty to dispose of the land to any other person whatever. And as these terms will be strictly adhered to by the Proprietaries, all persons are hereby warned and cautioned not to apply for more land than they will be able to pay for in the time hereby given for that purpose.

By order of the Governor.
JAMES TILGHMAN,
Secretary of the Land Office.
Philadelphia Land Office, February 23, 1769.

Sources:

Lycoming County, PA GenWeb Project. Land Office in Philadelphia to receive applications in the New Purchase, west of Fort Bedford. View @ PA GenWeb: Lycoming County

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