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Excerpt from The Genesee Tract: Cessions Between New York and Massachusetts, the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, Robert Morris, Captain Charles Williamson and the Pulteney Estate
Bay. Although a meridian or true north and south line it is not the meridian of Washington as some have supposed, that meridian line being some four miles further west.
By the Return of Survey made at Philadelphia, by Major Adam Hoops, it was ascertained that the actual contents of Mr. Morris' purchase was one million two hundred and sixty-seven thousand five hundred and sixty-nine acres, two roods and thirty perches, and from the final settle ment made between the parties, at Philadelphia, February 16, 1793, we learn that the full number of acres as per the Return of Survey, which included the gore between the old and new pre-emption lines, was paid for and that the price paid by Mr. Morris was eight pence half penny per acre, Massachusetts currency, or between eleven and twelve cents per acre in United States money, the settlement paper being signed by Nathaniel Gorham, Oliver Phelps, Robert Morris, and also by Charles William'son to show his privity to the transaction.
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