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2 unusual facts about Preemption Line


Preemption

Preemption Line, the line that divided the Indian lands of western New York State, that had been awarded to New York, from those that had been awarded to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by the Treaty of Hartford of 1786

Preemption Line

1792 Nov - Benjamin Ellicott begins survey of the second (true) preemption line



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