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Wharton, Samuel

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Wharton, Samuel (1732–1800)

US merchant and land speculator. A prominent merchant by 1763, he was a central figure in three attempts to gain large land grants west of the Alleghenies: the Grand Illinois Venture (1764–72), Indiana Grant (1768–69), and Vandalia (1770–75). Neither of the first two projects were successful and the start of the American Revolution in 1775 wrecked the Vandalia scheme. Wharton served in the Continental Congress (1782–83) and was a justice of the court of common pleas in Southwark, Pennsylvania (1790–91). Wharton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.



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