Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Pennsylvania

Other related names

• Hill, Richard, 1673-1729, witness
• Norris, Isaac, 1671-1735, witness
• Logan, James, 1674-1751, witness

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978893418603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1344185069

Publisher

Origin

Date

1716

Place

Philadelphia

Summary

Letter patent on the authority of Pennsylvania proprietor and governor William Penn, dated 20 June 1716, transferring a parcel of land in New Castle County from Matthias Dering to John French, a Scottish-born immigrant in the colony of Delaware who served as high sheriff, a member of Delaware's assembly, colonel in Delaware’s militia, register of wills for New Castle County, justice of the peace, and later Delaware supreme court justice (1726-1727). Witnessed and signed on Penn’s behalf by Richard Hill, Isaac Norris, and James Logan, Commissioners of Property, on the folded lower edge of the document. The proprietary seal in wax is suspended from the lower edge of the document. The first of two notes on the center verso is a caption description, “Patent to Col. John French,” with the date; the second in the upper left corner documents the recording of the document in Philadelphia’s Rolls Office, 11 August 1716, signed by Charles Brockden, Keeper of the Great Seal and Master of the Rolls.

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Acquired prior to 1970 (formerly RBM-173, University of Pennsylvania).
   

Subjects topical

• French, John,--active 1722
• Real property--Delaware--New Castle County
• Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources

Genres

• letters patent
• seals (marks)
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, American--18th century

Licenses

• Text

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