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Report of the Case of The Commonwealth, vs. Tench Coxe, Esq. On a Motion of Mandamus, in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania: Taken from the Manuscript of the Fourth Volume of Mr. Dallas's Reports.
Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken, 1803
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first edition, octavo, 137 pp., folding table, removed from bound volume, some tanning to text, small nick to foredge of title-page, ex-library, small old library hand-stamp, else very good.
"...In 1792, the Holland Company, formed by four large Dutch banking houses, purchased large amounts of land in the Genessee Country and Pennsylvania. In 1795, the stock of the Hollandsche Land Compagnie was divided into shares representing ownership of 1, 300,000 acres in the Genesee, 900,000 east of the Allegheny and 499,660 west of that river. Colonization was conducted by Theophile Cazanove, Paul Busti, and Joseph Ellicott." - Eberstadt 167:434. Complete with the folding summary of expenditures of the Holland Company for lands west of the Allegeheny. The individual opinions of members of the Court; depositions; and statements by Tench Coxe, Andrew Ellicott, James Buchanan, et al; render this a matchless detailed history of the Holland Company. American Imprints 4026; Sabin 60471
