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

Title

Authors

• Pennsylvania
• Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Markham, William, 1635-1704, witness
• Turner, Robert, 1635-1700, witness
• Goodson, John, 1690-1727, witness

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978899722603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1344185041

Publisher

Origin

Date

1694

Place

Philadelphia

Summary

Letter patent on the authority of proprietor William Penn, dated 7 May 1694, confirming the ownership by Ebenezer Langford of 500 acres of land in Chester County by affirming the grant of the land made by William Penn in 1683, witnessed and signed by William Markham, Robert Turner, and John Goodson, Commissioners of Property. On the back are two notes, one a caption title, "Patent for 500 acres of land to Mr. Ebenezer Langford," and the other documenting the recording of the letter patent in the Rolls Office, dated 31 October 1694, signed by Patrick Robinson, Secretary of the Province of Pennsylvania. The proprietary seal in wax is on the upper left corner of the document. The paper is brittle, especially where previously folded, and has an old repair in one section.

Extent

Provenance

• Acquired prior to 1970 (formerly RBM-174, University of Pennsylvania).
   

Subjects topical

• Langford, Ebenezer,--17th century
• Real property--Pennsylvania--Chester County
• Pennsylvania--History--1775-1865--Sources

Genres

• letters patent
• seals (marks)
• Manuscripts, American--17th century
• Manuscripts, English--17th century

Keywords

• Document
• 17th century
• English
• Paper
• Seals
• United States
• Legal

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Misc Mss (Large) Box 3 Folder 15 Box 3 Folder 15: Pennsylvania Commissioners of Property letter patent for land in Chester County : 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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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Pennsylvania Commissioners of Property letter patent for land in Chester County, 1694