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Title: History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph Henderson, 1854-
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Publisher: New York : The Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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atDenmark, and two others. There were also five manors inBedford County. The tenure here was a kind of feudal tenurecalled socage, or fixed rent, reserving the quit-rent. The quit-rents were the origin of the present ground-rents. They were 1 The warrant for the survey of the Manor of Pittsburg was issued in May, 1769. Thetitle to this manor was in the Penn family, John Penn, the grandson of William Penn, beingthen Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania. During the War of the Revolution the Pennswere Royalists, and in 1779 the Legislature confiscated all their property, except certainmanors, of which surveys had been made and entered in the Land Office prior to July 4,1776. The Manor of Pittsburg, having been surveyed before this date, remained the prop-erty of the Penn family. In 1784, they sold the lands of this manor, the first sale beingmade in January to Isaac Craig and Stephen Bayard, of all the ground between Fort Pittand the Allegheny River, supposed to contain about three acres.
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History of Beaver County 181 very unpopular with the colonists and a source of continualdisagreement between them and the proprietor. One of the first cares of Penn was to extinguish all the titleswhich the Indians possessed to the lands included within hischarter. Through a long term of years treaties were made withthem, for the purchase of their lands.1 Payments were made inblankets and other wearing apparel; in pins, needles, scissors,knives, axes, and guns. For some of their lands they were paidtwice on account of dissatisfaction with the purchase-price, soanxious were the proprietaries to keep on friendly terms withthem. No doubt the intentions of the authorities were honestenough, but when we consider the vast extent of the territory-surrendered by the Indians, and the purchase-price, a few thou-sand dollars worth of goods, merchandize and trinkets, thejustice of the transactions is not striking. And despite theformal acceptance of the terms made in the treaties, the Indianswere

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