Reference
WY808-810
Title
Conveyance. Lease and two Releases.
Date free text
1, 2 Jul 1734
Production date
From: 1734 To: 1734
Scope and Content
(i) William Penn of Kingston Bysea, Sussex, esquire, grandson and heir of William Penn deceased.
(ii) Thomas Penn of Philadelphia esquire, Richard Penn of Stanwell, Middlesex, esquire, and Thomas Freame of London merchant and wife Margaret.
(iii) John Penn of Feens, Berkshire, esquire.
Recites that John Penn was on 25 October 1701 seized of an estate of 5,000 acres in Pennsylvania, granted by William Penn senior to Thomas Callowhill.
By Letters Patent of William Penn senior, 12,000 acres land was laid out for John, 5,000 in lieu of his estate, formerly of Callowhill, and 7,000 acres more which were granted to Samuel Carpenter, Isaac Norris and Edward Pennington, in trust.
-- “certain tract of land on the river Schuylkill and on Mahanatany Creek beginning at a corner marked Hickery standing at the mouth of a small gutt or branch running into the said river Schuylkill to the eastward of the said creek dividing it from a tract of land of Daniel Falkner and company of German purchasers, from thence running by the said tract of German land by a line of marked trees north fifty degrees westerly 3200 perches to a corner post in the said line from thence northwest by a line of marked trees 600 perches to a stake set in the ground thence south 40° westerly by a line of marked trees by vacant land 3,600 perches to a post set in the ground upon the bank of the river Schuylkill from thence by several courses of the said river 800 perches to the place of beginning, containing 12,000 acres.
Witnesses: Thomas Hoare, George Ellice, George Ashton.
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