page_title: Line of Property
section_title: Treaty description of the line
hierarchical_section_title: Line of Property / Treaty description of the line
context_page_description: The Line of Property is the name commonly given to the line dividing Indian from British Colonial lands established in the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix between the British officials and the Indian tribes. In western Pennsylvania it is referred to as the Purchase line.
context_section_description: As written with original spellings and place names; (modern names in parentheses):
  "Beginning at the Mouth of the Cherokee or Hogohee River" (Tennessee River) "where it empties into the River Ohio" (at Paducah, Kentucky)
  "& running from thence upwards along the South side of said River to Kittanning, which is above Fort Pitt" (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
  "from thence a direct Line to the nearest Fork of the west branch of Susquehanna
  "thence through the Allegany Mountains along the south side of the said West Branch until it comes opposite to the mouth of a creek called Tiadaghton" (Pine Creek just west of Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania)
  "thence across the West Branch along the South Side of that Creek"
  "and along the North Side of Burnetts Hills to a Creek called Awandae" (Towanda Creek)
  "thence down the same to the East Branch of Sasquehanna" (at Towanda, Pennsylvania)
  "& across the same and up the East side of that River to Oswegy" (Owego, New York)
  "from thence East to Delawar River" (Delaware River)
  "and up that River to opposite where Tianaderha" (Unadilla River) "falls into Sasquehanna" (Susquehanna River)
  "thence to Tianaderha" (New Berlin, New York?) "and up the West side of the West branch" (Beaver Creek) "to the head thereof"
  "& thence by a direct Line to Canada Creek, where it empties into the Wood Creek at the West of the Carrying Place beyond Fort Stanwix" (Rome, New York).
caption: Map showing Pennsylvania and the territory involved in the purchase of 1768.
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