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that corner, then it became known to a certainty that the grants to 

 William Trent, in trust, and to George Croghan, had both become 

 worthless as to lands within the boundaries of Pennsylvania. 



The southwest corner and the vvestern boundary of Pennsylvania 

 were actually marked out on the ground in 1784-5; and Croghan's 

 grant, which had been fruitlessly relied upon to protect the settlers 

 upon George Washington's lands in what is now Mt. Pleasant Town- 

 ship, Washington County, Pennsylvania, became extinct ; it is still in 

 evidence, however, by marks upon trees occasionally confusing the 

 surveyors of the present day. And by the beneficiaries under the 

 deed to William Trent, in trust, there was formed the Indiana Com- 

 pany, which had quite an interesting history. Pushed out of Penn- 

 sylvania, as it eventually was, Lieutenant Thomas Hutchins, an engi- 

 neer with Bouquet's expedition, made a survey of its lands in what is 

 now West Virginia, about the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania. 

 The company called its immense tract " Indiana," and pressed a 

 recognition of its title successively before the Legislature of Virginia, 

 the Congress of the United States, and the United States Supreme 

 Court, and failed in all its efforts ; so that for a hundred years that 

 celebrated grant, also, has been a matter of ancient history only. 



It is manifest, however, that at the time all these Indian grants 

 were made it was believed that the western boundary of Pennsylvania 

 would fall on a line parallel with the meanders of the Delaware River, 

 and would eventually lie somewhere east of the Monongahela River 

 at Pittsburgh. 



Transcript of the Record of Deeds. 

 (i)' Examined and delivered This indenture 



Bernard Gratz, May 28, 1775. made the tenth 



day of July in 

 the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and seventy two Be- 

 tween George Croghan Esquire on the one part and Bernardus 

 Gratz of the City of Philadelphia Merchant on the other part : 

 Whereas lohonorissa Scaraydia and Cosowantinecea, Cheifs or 

 Sachems of the Six United Nations of Indians, did by their 

 deed duly Executed Bearing date the Second day of August 

 One Thousand Seven Hundred and forty nine for the Con- 

 sideration therein Specified Grant Bargain and Sell unto the 



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