[17] Wallace, Conrad Weiser, pp. 362-363. Lydius had gotten the Indians drunk following the settlement at Albany between the Six Nations and the Proprietaries. This boundary line (Albany) "crossed the West Branch below the Big Island," p. 374.
[18] Pennsylvania Archives, First Series, XI, 508.
[19] Meginness, Otzinachson (1889), p. 667.
[20] Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, p. 477. Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, XIX, 711-713.
[21] The ambiguity of the term "New Purchase" becomes apparent once it is recognized that territorial acquisitions of both Stanwix treaties adopted that appellation.
[22] Dunaway, The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania, pp. 28-49.
[23] Northumberland County Courthouse, Sunbury, Pa., Penns & C. 1782-1811 Tax Assessments, Cabinet #1. This book, found in the cellar of the courthouse, also contains the Pine Creek assessment for 1789.
[24] Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, XIX, 618-622.
[25] Pennsylvania Archives, First Series, XII, 286-287. The squatters, apparently warned in advance, had practically all vacated the premises. However, neighbors across the river willingly gave their names.
[26] Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, XIX, 437, 468, 557, 711, 790.