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William Johnstone, a friend in youth of Adam Smith and David Hume, married an heiress, changed his name to Pulteney, helped to finance his brothers' careers and, shortly before dying as the wealthiest commoner in England, opposed Wilberforce's 1805 bill for the abolition of the slave trade.
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In 1795, with his fifty thousand debt still outstanding, Pulteney Associates learned that Morris was making sales out of the mortgaged tract, and obtained a court injunction barring further sales.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Pulteney was interested, and combined with William Hornby, a former governor of Bombay, to strike a deal with Franklin.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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After paying a separate, handsome commission to Franklin, and allowing discounts to Pulteney for advance payments, Morris by 1793 cleared $165,000 in the deal.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Everything would take time—the Pulteney Associates would pay in annual installments, beginning that year and running through 1797, while Morris was to clear title to a million acres of land in the Genesee country, “notwithstanding any Law which now exists concerning Alienage or other Disabilities.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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In August 1791, he borrowed one hundred thousand dollars from the Pulteney Associates, mortgaging the Morris Reserve as security.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Pulteney was interested, and combined with William Hornby, a former governor of Bombay, to strike a deal with Franklin.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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In December 1792 he sold to Cazenove and the Holland Land Company one and a half million acres, though not in the clear-cut mode of the Pulteney deal.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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After paying a separate, handsome commission to Franklin, and allowing discounts to Pulteney for advance payments, Morris by 1793 cleared $165,000 in the deal.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Massachusetts accepted his offer of about $350,000 at the same time the Pulteney deal was confirmed.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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