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Originally Posted by btownboss4
From Boston, living in Rochester.
The Northeast is from the Proclamation line of 1763 (excluding the Champlain valley) to the Mason-Dixon line.
Why? because Western NY has Zero Colonial History, the towns popped up in the 1810s.
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Actually that wedge of territory between the Proclamation line of 1763 and the PA border (aka the Susquehanna River basin within NYS) also lacked Euro-American settlement prior to the Revolution. Binghamton was first "settled" in this sense in 1786; Owego in 1787; Elmira in 1788; Homer in 1791; Bath in 1793.
When Mason and Dixon surveyed their line (1767), Pittsburgh was already settled (1760 date for settlement around the fort
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor...2.80.931763.29 ).
Colonial Pennsylvania had an organized
county prior to the Revolution,
west of the Proclamation Line of 1763 (although within a land purchase of 1768) and north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Westmoreland County, PA dates from 1773.
http://www.krishocker.com/genealogy/...Picture-16.png
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