Excerpt from A History of the Region of Pennsylvania North of the Ohio and West of the Allegheny River, of the Indian Purchases, and of the Running of the Souther, Northern, and Western State Boundaries: An Account of the Division of the Territory for Public Purposes, and of the Lands, Laws, Titles, Settlements, Controversies, and Litigation Within This Region Probably no part of Pennsylvania is more interesting in its history, settlement, titles, and protracted litigation than that portion lying north of the Ohio and west of the Allegheny River. A century having elapsed since its purchase of the Indians, and the passage of the laws regulating its appropriation and titles, few lawyers are living familiar with these subjects. The legislation peculiar to this region was unfortunate, and gave rise to contests which for many years retarded improvement, and rendered titles uncertain. It was my fortune to begin practice when lapse of time and the Statute of Limitations began to urge a final settlement of the disputes between the "warrantees" and the "settlers." In the winter of 1829-30 accident, or good fortune, threw into my hands the second volume of Charles Smiths edition of the Laws of Pennsylvania, containing his exhaustive note(156 pages) on the Land Laws. The study of this was my preparation for a large practice in land titles. In December, 1818, John B.Wallace, Esq., had conveyed a large body of land, in Beaver County, to the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Philadelphia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.