Enlightenment · North America · Politics
1744
Iroquois Treaty of Lancaster
June 22, 1744
Representatives of the Six Nations met Virginia and Pennsylvania negotiators in the small town of Lancaster and signed away their claim to the lands south and west of the Alleghenies, lands they mostly did not actually hold. A young Virginia surveyor named George Washington would shortly ride into those lands to see what Britain had bought.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.