From:
Roger L Walter <rlwalter@mail.eclipse.net>
To:
TRIPP-L@rootsweb.com
Subject:
ISAAC TRIPP & SUSQUEHANNA COMPANY
Resent-Date:
Sun, 07 Jun 1998 06:18:14 -0700 (PDT)
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TRIPP-L@rootsweb.com
The
following is from MINUTES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA COMPANY,
published
in Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Wm. H. Engle, editor,
(E.K.
Meyers, State Printer, Harrisburg, 1890); Vol. XVIII, pp 58-61
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At a
meeting of the Susquehanna Company duly
warned and convened at Hartford
on the
29th day of December 1768.
John Smith, Esq, Moderator Ebenezer Gray,
clerk
....
Whereupon,
it is now voted by said company, to proceed and settle said land,
lying
on, and adjacent to said Susq'a river, purchased from the Indians by said
Comp'y,
lying within the line settled with the Indians as aforesaid, at the
late
Congress at Fort Stanwix; as soon as conveniently may be, And that 40
persons,
upwards of the age of 21 years proprietors in
said purchase, and
approved
by the committee hereafter nominated and appointed, proceed to enter
upon,
and take possession of said land, for, and in behalf of said Comp'y by
the 1st
day of Feb. next --
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Voted
that a committee be appointed in each County in
this
Colony, as also some meet person or persons in the neighboring Colonies,
to
admit and approve such persons who may offer themselves for the first
settlers,
according to the foregoing votes; and that,
for the
County of Hartford for the County of New Haven
Col.
Sam'l Talcott Dan'l Lyman Esq
Major
Elizar Talcott Mr. Mich'l Baldwin
Jon'n
Pettibone Capt. Macook Ward
Jon'n
Root Esqr
for the
County of New London for the County of Fairfield
Sam'l
Ely Esq Mr. Cornelius Hall
Mr.
Gershom Reed Mr. Nathan Birdseye
Capt.
Obadiah Gore Mr. Benjamin Sealy
for the
county of Windham for the County of Litchfield
John
Smith Increase Mosely
S. Gray
Esq. Sam'l Canfield Esq
Mr.
John Jenkins Benj. Stevens
for the
Province of New York for the Province of Massachusetts Bay
Mr. Wm.
Buck Timothy Woodbridge Esq
John
Wadsworth
for the
Colony of Rhode Island
Isaac
Tripp
Job
Randall Esq
Mr.
Ezra Dean
be, and
they hereby are appointed a committee, jointly, and severally to
approve
and admit the aforesaid 200 persons proposed as first settlers on said
land,
in such manner and proportion as they shall agree, so as not to exceed
the
number proposed And that Isaac Tripp Esq, Mr. Benjamin Follet, Mr. John
Jenkins,
Mr. William Buck and Mr. Benjamin Shoemaker, be and they are hereby
appointed
a committee, to approve, admit, oversee, superintend, Manage, and
order
the affairs and proceedings of the
first forty settlers. ......
Roger L
Walter
rlwalter@eclipse.net
Amateur
Genealogist -- ALT; LUCE; KNAPP; TRIPP;
SOUTHWORTH;
WEBSTER; Susquehanna Co.; Schoharie Co.
, NY;
Connecticut; + more