David W Maxey Gladwyne, Pennsylvania December 1 3, 1770
THE HONORABLE PROPRIETARIES V. SAMUEL WALLIS: "A MATTER OF GREAT CONSEQUENCE" IN THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA David W Maxey Gladwyne, Pennsylvania ( Jm December 1 3, 1770, and again two weeks later, an official notice appeared among the advertisements in the Pennsylvania Gazette that, in contrast to the nearby items promoting the sale of miscellaneous merchandise and nostrums, or announcing the dates of departure of vessels bound for abroad, delivered a stinging message: Philadelphia, December to, 1770 WHEREAS we have been lately informed, that a certain Samuel Wallis has given out, that he has obtained grants for lands within the Proprietary Manor, at Muncy, and other Places within the new purchase, upon applications and orders, before that purchase was made; and that he hath sold several of those tracts of land: These are to inform the public, that any such grants must have been obtained by fraudulent practices in making the surveys, and impositions upon the proprietary officers. And there is great probability, that such practices and impositions may have been committed by the same Samuel Wallis, as he has lately been PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY: A JOURNAL OF MW-ATLANTIC STUDIES, VOL. 70, NO. 4, 2003, Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylvania Historical Associaron PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY detected in a fraud, and practice of the like kind, in taking up lands within the Proprietaries Manor of Lowther, .. which he has been obliged to give up. Buyers of the said Wallis are therefore advised to observe the date of the applications, . and if such applications bear date before the 5"bday of November, 1768, they may depend upon it, the grant hath been fraudulently obtained, and that it will not be safe to purchase ...
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