The Pulteney Associationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The Pulteney Association was a purchaser in 1792 of a large portion of the Western New York land tract known as the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The Pulteney Associates were British investors: nine-twelfths was owned by Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet (1729–1805), a Scottish lawyer; two-twelfths by William Hornby, former Governor of Bombay; and one-twelfth by Patrick Colquhoun, a Scottish merchant. Some of their heirs owned land in western New York into the 1920s, with the last parcel of The Pulteney Association property, 10 acres (40,000 m²), being sold in December 1926.