Broome county . eEnglish claimed the territory of the Kive Nations, but Francedid not recognize their right to put forward such a claim. In1768 a council was hpld at Fort Stjnwix to establish a line be- which rests in the county of Broome between the Chenango nndSusquehanna Rivers. On Nov. 1. 1683 New York was divided into twelve wilderness ttien an Indian domain comprised whut is nowBroome County, imd not till the year 1791 was this divided upfrom the territory included in Montgomery County and calledTioga (.ounty. Tioga then included what is now Bromie,Chemung and Tioga Counties
Broome county . eEnglish claimed the territory of the Kive Nations, but Francedid not recognize their right to put forward such a claim. In1768 a council was hpld at Fort Stjnwix to establish a line be- which rests in the county of Broome between the Chenango nndSusquehanna Rivers. On Nov. 1. 1683 New York was divided into twelve wilderness ttien an Indian domain comprised whut is nowBroome County, imd not till the year 1791 was this divided upfrom the territory included in Montgomery County and calledTioga (.ounty. Tioga then included what is now Bromie,Chemung and Tioga Counties, Newton now Elmira, ( henaiigoPoint now Binghamton were each, what was then termed lialfshires. The first court in the county was conducted li\ MorganLewis, who was afterwards Governor. William Bingham a wealthy gentlemen of Iliiladf-lphiaobtained a very large patent of land containing tome acres and laying in the present towns of Union VestalBinghamton, Conklin and Kirkwood. It takes very little ex-. STATE STREET LOOKINQ NORTH yondwhich the whites were not to encroach; this line ranabout on the east l)orders of Broome and Chenango Countiesand all lands east of this was by this grant the property ofKing <4eorge III of Great Britain, however, six years later anew treaty was made in which the whites ootainpd possessionto considerable territory lying west of this line, besides UiisMassachusetts set upchiinis to lands farther west in the stiiteand gained a right to preempt it from the Indians, except thatportion known as Boston Ten Towns and also a strip alongthe Niagara River. The Boston Ten Towns became the propertyof a Syndicate of sixty piTsons, known as the Boston land which comprised about L;iO,0()() acres in Broome, Tiogaand Cortland Counties was soon parceled out on speculation tonumerous purchasers. In 1775 Gov. Clinton purchased a largetract of land of the Indians for $11,500, the southern portion of cept the river valleys. Hoopers patent was f
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