Phelps and Gorham Purchase
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The Phelps and Gorham Purchase was the 1788 sale by the state of Massachusetts of its preemptive right to a portion of a large tract of land in western New York State owned by the Seneca nation of the
James Clinton and John Sullivan, leaders of the Sullivan Expedition
Holland Land Company
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The Holland Land Company was an unincorporated syndicate of Dutch investors from Amsterdam, headquartered in Philadelphia, which purchased large tracts of American land for development and speculation
Phelps and Gorham Purchase
…William Pulteney's death in 1805, it was known as the Pulteney Estate. Morris sold additional land in December 1792 and in February and July 1793 to the Holland Land Company, an unincorporated syndicate formed by Willem Willink and thirteen other Dutch bankers. The bankers hired American trustees in the United States to…
The Holland Land Co. office in Batavia, New York