. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. Pretty Residential Section in New Kutztown(Formerly Park Avenue). Handsomic Humes on Uppek Main Street(The stone lionse to the right is the remodeled First House Erected In Freetown) CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF KUTZTOWN 37 DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOWNSHIP Returning to the statement that Maxa-tawny was settled soon after 1732, the dateof sale by the Indians of their lands, andto the evident improbability of that state-ment, as shown by the facts recited andoapers quoted, it becom
. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. Pretty Residential Section in New Kutztown(Formerly Park Avenue). Handsomic Humes on Uppek Main Street(The stone lionse to the right is the remodeled First House Erected In Freetown) CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF KUTZTOWN 37 DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOWNSHIP Returning to the statement that Maxa-tawny was settled soon after 1732, the dateof sale by the Indians of their lands, andto the evident improbability of that state-ment, as shown by the facts recited andoapers quoted, it becomes necessary to ex-plain how it was that the Indians sold theirlands after the settlers had occupied them. The earliest settlers bought their landsfrom the proprietary government withoutany question as to whether the governmenthad secured a clear title from the their deeds or patents they occu-pied the land. The Indians, though friend-ly to the settlers, complained that the landthus bought by the settlers from the pro-prietaries had never been purchased by thelatter from the Indians. D. B. Brunner(The Indians of Berks County, p. 15)says: The settlers spread over the cou
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