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Author Bishop, Abraham, 1763-1844.

Title Georgia speculation unveiled / by Abraham Bishop.

Publication Info. [New York] : Readex Microprint, [1966]
©1966

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  F341 .B65 1797a    Available  ---
Description 39 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Great Americana
Great Americana.
Note Original t.p. has inprint: Hartford, Printed by Elisa Babcock, 1797.
Contents Relates to the second "Yazoo" sale, whereby Georgia disposed of 22 million acres of her western lands to four land companies in Jan. 1795. The sale was annulled Feb. 1796, but not before the Georgia Mississippi Company, one of four, had disposed of a part of its holdings to the New England Mississippi Company.
Local Note Anonynous gift.
Subject Yazoo Fraud, 1795.
South-Carolina Yazoo Company.
Virginia Yazoo Company.
Tennessee Company.
Georgia Company.
Georgia Mississippi Company.
Upper Mississippi Company.
Yazoo Fraud (1795)
Georgia Mississippi Company.
New England Mississippi Land Company.
New England Mississippi Land Company.