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Indiana State Sentinel
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
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A colony of 40-50 emigrants from Brooklyn will soon move to western Virginia, where they purchased several hundred acres of fertile wild land near the Ohio River, about 200 miles from Cincinnati, at $1.12 1/2 per acre from Mr. Clark and Brooklyn gentlemen.
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Western Part Of Virginia, Near The Banks Of The Ohio River
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In A Few Weeks
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purchased several hundred acres of wild land at the price of $1.12 1-2 per acre
Event Details
a colony of emigrants, numbering some forty or fifty, at present residents of Brooklyn, will take up their line of march for the western part of Virginia, where they have purchased several hundred acres of wild land, near the banks of the Ohio river, about two hundred miles from Cincinnati, with which place there is an easy communication by water. These lands, which are represented to be remarkably fertile, were recently in possession of Mr. Clark, and several gentlemen of Brooklyn, and have been disposed of to these actual settlers