WellsboroBorough.com
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Wellsboro Borough - Home
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Excerpted from the website:
- Early History of the Borough of Wellsboro
- Opened to white settlers after the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1784 after the Seneca Indians ceded all of Tioga County to the Pennsylvania government. Three years after the end of the American Revolution Thomas Tucker first set foot on the soil of Wellsboro. On September 1, 1786, Tucker, Deputy Surveyor General of PA, and his surveying party surveyed these lands as well as Lawrence, Tioga and Middlebury Townships under a Land Warrant issued to James Stuart, a land speculator, in May of 1785.
