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Fair Play Men

People from Clinton County, PennsylvaniaPeople from Lycoming County, PennsylvaniaPre-statehood history of Pennsylvania
Tiadaghton Elm 1939
Tiadaghton Elm 1939

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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Fair Play Men
T436, Pine Creek Township

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17721 Pine Creek Township
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Tiadaghton Elm 1939
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