PENN, WILLIAMLand grant signed, Philadelphia, 4 May 1684 1 page on vellum (8 x 11 1/2 in.; 203 x 292 mm); matted, glazed on both sides and framed with a portrait of Penn. The founder of Pennsylvania makes one of the earliest land grants of land in downtown Philadelphia. The grant conveys a "Lott of land in Philadelphia, situated between the Third & Fourth Street from Delaware … bounded Northward with the Swamp … Southward with Walnutt street …" to Thomas Minchall, one of the first purchasers of Philadelphia lands after Penn laid out the town. The site was opposite the famed Quaker Alms-house and in the same block with the mansion later built by Bishop William White Minchall, a native of Stoke, England, purchased 625 acres in Philadelphia County in 1684.
PENN, WILLIAMLand grant signed, Philadelphia, 4 May 1684 1 page on vellum (8 x 11 1/2 in.; 203 x 292 mm); matted, glazed on both sides and framed with a portrait of Penn. The founder of Pennsylvania makes one of the earliest land grants of land in downtown Philadelphia. The grant conveys a "Lott of land in Philadelphia, situated between the Third & Fourth Street from Delaware … bounded Northward with the Swamp … Southward with Walnutt street …" to Thomas Minchall, one of the first purchasers of Philadelphia lands after Penn laid out the town. The site was opposite the famed Quaker Alms-house and in the same block with the mansion later built by Bishop William White Minchall, a native of Stoke, England, purchased 625 acres in Philadelphia County in 1684.
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