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26 July 2024

  • curprev 23:1423:14, 26 July 2024 Migratebot talk contribs 957 bytes +957 Created page with " The largest grant of lands ever made by the State of New York to citizens was that known as Macomb's Purchase, which was granted to '''Alexander Macomb''', June 22, 1791. It embraced 3,693,755 acres of land lying within the present counties of Franklin, St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis, Herkimer, and Oswego. After his first application to the Legislature was rejected, Macomb made a second one, "for the purchase of the waste and unappropriated lands . . .," offering 8 pe..."
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