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===18th century=== {{Further|Pennsylvania in the American Revolution}} The [[Iroquois]] claimed ownership of present-day Erie. On January 9, 1789, a conference was arranged during which representatives from the Iroquois signed a deed relinquishing their ownership of the land<ref>{{cite book |last1=Miller |first1=John |title=A Twentieth Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania |url=https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury01mill_0 |date=1909 |publisher=Lewis Publishing Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury01mill_0/page/n81 60]}}</ref> in exchange for $2,000 from Pennsylvania and $1,200 from the [[Federal government of the United States|federal government]]. [[Seneca Nation]] separately settled land claims against Pennsylvania in February 1791 for the sum of $800. It became a part of Pennsylvania on March 3, 1792, after Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York relinquished their rights to the land and sold the land to Pennsylvania for 75 cents per acre or a total of $151,640.25 in continental certificates.<ref name="nelson 103-104">Nelson, pp. 103β104.</ref> The [[General Assembly of Pennsylvania]] commissioned the surveying of land near Presque Isle through an act passed on April 18, 1795. [[Andrew Ellicott]], who completed [[Pierre Charles L'Enfant]]'s survey of [[Washington, D.C.]], and helped resolve the boundary between Pennsylvania and New York, arrived to begin the survey and lay out the plan for the city in June 1795. The initial settlement of the area began that year.<ref name="nelson 103-104"/><ref name="warner-beers 505-506">''History of Erie County'', pp 505β506.</ref> Lt. [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] [[Seth Reed]] and his family moved to the Erie area from [[Geneva, New York]]; they were Yankees from [[Uxbridge, Massachusetts]]. They became the first European-American settlers of Erie in present-day Presque Isle.
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