The Fair Play Men were illegal settlers (squatters) who established their own system of self-rule from 1773 to 1785 in the West Branch Susquehanna River valley of Pennsylvania in what is now the United States. Because they settled in territory claimed by Native Americans, they had no recourse to the Pennsylvania colonial government. Accordingly they established what was known as the Fair Play System, with three elected commissioners who ruled on land claims and other issues for the group. In a remarkable coincidence, the Fair Play Men made their own declaration of independence from Britain on July 4, 1776 beneath the "Tiadaghton Elm" on the banks of Pine Creek.
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| - The Fair Play Men were illegal settlers (squatters) who established their own system of self-rule from 1773 to 1785 in the West Branch Susquehanna River valley of Pennsylvania in what is now the United States. Because they settled in territory claimed by Native Americans, they had no recourse to the Pennsylvania colonial government. Accordingly they established what was known as the Fair Play System, with three elected commissioners who ruled on land claims and other issues for the group. In a remarkable coincidence, the Fair Play Men made their own declaration of independence from Britain on July 4, 1776 beneath the "Tiadaghton Elm" on the banks of Pine Creek. (en)
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- Declaration of independence
- People from Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania
- United Kingdom
- United States
- United States Declaration of Independence
- Continental Army
- Clinton County, Pennsylvania
- Elm
- George Washington
- Muncy, Pennsylvania
- Muncy Creek
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Pre-statehood history of Pennsylvania
- Lycoming Creek
- Avis, Pennsylvania
- Bald Eagle Mountain
- Treaty of Fort Stanwix
- West Branch Susquehanna River
- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
- Williamsport, Pennsylvania
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- Line of Property
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- People from Clinton County, Pennsylvania
- Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania
- Larrys Creek
- Sunbury, Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
- Pine Creek (Pennsylvania)
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- Native Americans in the United States
- New York (state)
- Second Continental Congress
- Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
- Scalping
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- Wyalusing Path
- Sullivan's Expedition
- Ordinal directions
- Muncy Township, Pennsylvania
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| - The Tiadaghton Elm in 1939, site of the Fair Play Men's Declaration of Independence (en)
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| - River Rd. , at Bonner Ln., SE of Avis, Pennsylvania (en)
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| - Location of the Tiadaghton Elm in Pennsylvania (en)
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| - The Fair Play Men were illegal settlers (squatters) who established their own system of self-rule from 1773 to 1785 in the West Branch Susquehanna River valley of Pennsylvania in what is now the United States. Because they settled in territory claimed by Native Americans, they had no recourse to the Pennsylvania colonial government. Accordingly they established what was known as the Fair Play System, with three elected commissioners who ruled on land claims and other issues for the group. In a remarkable coincidence, the Fair Play Men made their own declaration of independence from Britain on July 4, 1776 beneath the "Tiadaghton Elm" on the banks of Pine Creek. (en)
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