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

Title

Authors

• Morris, Luke, 1707-1793
• Shippen, Edward, approximately 1703-1781
• Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964458283503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1354237205
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3dv1d94n

Publisher

Origin

Date

1774-1782

Summary

One folded leaf recording payment of yearly ground rent by Philadelphia merchant Edward Shippen for a property on Front Street, also referred to as Society Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Each payment is signed Luke Morris and spans the years from 1774 to 1782. One payment received on September 7, 1782, was for seven years.

Extent

Provenance

• Alexander Historical Auctions (Chesapeake City, Maryland), 2015.
   

Subjects topical

• Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sources

Genres

• Receipts
• Manuscripts, American

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 22 Folder 5 Box 22 Folder 5: Luke Morris record of payments received are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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