Dear Folks, You asked about the land disputes of the land near Muncy, PA that finally caused my ancestor, Ebenezer Green, to leave his home there and move just across the NY line to Chemung, NY in 1788. I will give you what I have learned about this. The King of England granted royal charters to royal followers for land in New England, Virginia and elsewhere. A part of the land west of New England was inadvertantly granted to two groups of founders of PA and of CT. The father of William Penn had loaned a huge sum of money to the royal treasury and the only way the king could repay him was to grant a charter to him and his descendants for thousands of acres with vague boundaries. The whole area was given outright to a single person and to his descendants forever. The PA founders clearly believed they had the right to the territory and so did the ones from CT. The King had overlapped his royal charters and the land in the middle was stubbornly claimed for nearly 50 years by both CT and PA. Some CT speculators (The Susquehanna Company) encouraged settlers to settle this disputed strip of land. The PA authorities were firmly in control so when the CT settlers from Warwick, NY who were CT sympathizers went into Wyoming Valley, PA they were driven out by the PA people. Almost the entire membership of the of the Warwick Baptist Church went to Wyoming valley. They limped back to Warwick. Some other CT sympathizers from Warwick (including my ancestor Ebenezer Green and his family who were also members of that old Baptist Church) moved into the Susquehannah Valley near Muncy. This was during the Rev. War - about 1776/77. This group of CT people claimed land and made improvements. They also defended the settlements during the War and suffered great hardships. The Green family lost three sons to the War. But the settlers still could not get title to their lands even after the war had ended. Finally, in 1788, a group of them moved just across the border into NY and settled along the Chemung River. THE HISTORY OF WYOMING, by Isaac A. Chapman, written in 1818 and updated in 1830 tells this story in great detail -- of course the author was in sympathy with the CT settlers -- so I am rather prejudiced in favor of his account! The dispute continued from about 1753 until about 1800. Betty