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2. Holland Land Company - Wikipedia

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   In 1839, the last land in Western New York was sold off to local investors and settlers, and the Batavia office was closed. [2] Land sales in Pennsylvania were concluded in 1849, [7] and in 1856, the Philadelphia headquarters closed. [2] The company was formally dissolved in 1858. The town of Holland, New York was named after the company. [29]

3. Phelps and Gorham Purchase - Wikipedia

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   Map of Phelps and Gorham Purchase 1802–1806. The Phelps and Gorham Purchase was the sale, in 1788, of a portion of a large tract of land in western New York State owned by the Seneca nation of the Iroquois Confederacy to a syndicate of land developers led by Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham.

4. State cessions - Wikipedia

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   New York: February 19, 1780: October 29, 1782: Ceded claims west of Lake Ontario. New York was allowed to keep the land claimed by it and Massachusetts west of the Preemption Line in 1786, which eventually became Western New York. North Carolina: December 22, 1789: February 25, 1790

5. Western New York - Wikipedia

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   Western New York (WNY) is the ... Western New York's land was acquired from the ... for receiving the profits from its sale to settlers. New York was the only colony ...

6. Land Ordinance of 1785 - Wikipedia

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   The Ordinance of 1785 was a dictatorial intrusion into the western region, which set too high a minimum land sale and price, thus restricting settlement, and also enforced rectangular surveying, thus forcing the purchase of submarginal land within an otherwise good “rectangle,” instead of conforming, as in the Southern methods of surveying ...

7. Conservancy preserves Grand Island forest - AOL

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   Nov. 28—The Western New York Land Conservancy has announced the purchase of an ecologically significant 10.5-acre forest on Staley Road in Grand Island. This purchase is the result of the Land ...