Plain facts : being an examination into the rights of the Indian Nations of America, to their respective countries, and a vindication of the grant, from the Six United Nations of Indians to the proprietors of Indiana, against the decision of the legislature of Virginia : together with authentic documents, proving that the territory, westward of the Allegany Mountain, never belonged to Virginia, &c

Contributor:

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (former owner)

Name:

Wharton, Samuel, 1732-1800; Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809

Timespan:

To 1950; Early works to 1800

Date:

1781

Language:

English

Provenance:

Benezet, Anthony (autograph) (RBC copy 1); Dillryn, George (inscription) (RBC copy 1); Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy); Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Publisher:

Printed and sold by R. Aitken, bookseller, in Market-Street, three doors above the Coffee-House

Relation:

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=darltext;view=toc;idno=31735054850296

Subject:

Six Nations; Iroquois Indians -- Land tenure -- Early works to 1800; Indian land transfers -- West Virginia -- Early works to 1800; Land grants -- West Virginia -- Early works to 1800; Iroquois Indians -- Land tenure; Indian land transfers; Indiana grant; Walpole grant; History; Land grants

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Early works

Physical Description:

164 pages, 2 unnumbered pages (last page blank); 22 cm (8vo).

Geographic Subject:

Virginia -- History -- Sources; West Virginia -- History -- To 1950 -- Sources; West Virginia; Virginia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

This pamphlet, which has been variously attributed to Anthony Benezet, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine, was prepared by Samuel Wharton, as is attested by P.E. du Simitière in his note-books preserved in the Library of Congress. It relates to a large tract of land within the limits of the present state of West Virginia, granted by the Indians in 1768 to certain traders, including Wharton, and called by them "Indiana." The present pamphlet is an enlargement of one published by Wharton in 1776, under title: View of the title to Indiana. Cf. Boston Athenæum, Catalogue of the Washington collection, 1897, p. 223-224; Signatures: [A]⁴ B-U⁴ W² chi1.; Errata: p. [1] at end.; Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.; Kaplan Collection copy imperfect: pages 161-164 and the errata wanting. Replaced with photocopy.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Archives Room, F230 .W5 1781; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, F230 .W5 1781; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, F230 .W5 1781

Collection:

Oliver Wolcott Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress); Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)