| Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 754 pages
...should be void, and the purchasers indicted fcr forcible entry and detainer, according to the laws of England. That in 1730 they appointed an agent to...investigate the facts ; that the agent so appointed was the famonB surveyor, Nicolas ScuU ; that he, J. Lukens, was then N. Scull's apprentice, to carry chain... | |
| Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 766 pages
...informed of the settlement, they passed a law, in 1739, that any such purchases of the Indians should be void, and the purchasers indicted for forcible entry and detainer, according to the laws of England. That in 1730 they appointed an agent to go and investigate the facts ; that the agent... | |
| John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - New Jersey - 1844 - 546 pages
...informed of the settlement, they passed a law in 1729, that any such purchases of the Indians should be void, and the purchasers indicted for " forcible entry and detainer," according to the laws of England. That in 1730, they appointed an agent to go and investigate the facts ; that the agent... | |
| Israel Daniel Rupp - Carbon County (Pa.) - 1845 - 588 pages
...should be void, and the purchasers indicted for forcible entry and detainer, according to the laws of England. That in 1730 they appointed an agent to...that the agent so appointed was the famous surveyor, Nicolas Scull ; that he, J. Lukens, was then N. Scull's apprentice, to carry chain and learn surveying... | |
| Samuel Watkins Eager - Orange County (N.Y.) - 1847 - 672 pages
...informed of the settlement, they passed a law in 1729 that any such purchases of the Indians should be void ; and the purchasers indicted for forcible entry...appointed was the famous Surveyor, Nicholas Scull; that ht>, James Lukens, was N. Scull's apprentice to carry chain and learn surveying. That as they both... | |
| John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - New Jersey - 1844 - 554 pages
...purchaser* indicted for " forcible entry and detainer," according to the laws of England. That in 1 730, they appointed an agent to go and investigate the facts ; that the agent so appointed was the famous survevor Nicholas Scull ; that he, James Lukens, was then N. Scull's apprentice to carry chain and... | |
| John Warner Barber - New Jersey - 1868 - 604 pages
...informed of the settlement, they passed a law in 1729, that any such purchases of the Indians should be void, and the purchasers indicted for " forcible entry and detainer," according to the laws of England. That in 1730, they appointed an agent to go and investigate the facts ; that the agent... | |
| James Eldridge Quinlan - Delaware Indians - 1873 - 726 pages
...informed of the Settlement, they passed a law in 1729 that any such purchases of the Indians should be void; and the purchasers indicted for forcible entry...was the famous Surveyor, Nicholas Scull ; that he, John Lukens, was N. Scull's apprentice to carry chain and learn surveying. That as they both understood... | |
| Charles Biddle - Pennsylvania - 1883 - 444 pages
...of the said settlement, they passed a law in 1729, that any such purchases of the Indians should be void, and the purchasers indicted for forcible entry and detainer, according to the laws of England; that in 1730 they appointed an agent to go and investigate the facts ; that the agent... | |
| Pennsylvania-German Society - German Americans - 1899 - 622 pages
...the settlement, and in 1729 a law was passed that any such purchases made from the Indians should be void, and the purchasers indicted for "forcible entry and detainer," according to the laws of England. Prior to that, in 1727, the famous surveyor, Nicholas Scull, was directed to go and... | |
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