WILLIAM PENN
Letters Patent signed ("WmPenn") of a plot of land in Walnut Street, Philadelphia, to Daniel Jones, being "a Lott of Land in Philadelphia Conteining in breadth Sixty Two Feet & in Length Two Hundred & Fifty Two Feet bounded Northward with back Lotts Eastward with Vacant Lotts Southward with Wallnutt Street Westward with a Vacant Lott Granted by a Warrant from my self bearing date the Twentieth day of the First Month One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty Three & laid out by the Surveyor General's Order the Twenty Seaventh day of the said Month & Year unto Daniel Jones & the said Daniel Jones Purchaser requesting me to consign the same by Patent", and stating the terms of the grant for which the sum of a silver shilling is to be paid each year; docketed by Thomas Lloyd, Master of the Rolls, as recorded in the Office of the Rolls & Public Registry at Philadelphia, 30 [July] 1684; seal tag with traces of Penn's papered armorial seal, vellum, light dust-staining but otherwise in fresh and attractive condition, 230 x 330 mm., Philadelphia, 24 [June] [1684]; together with Letters Patent signed by Penn's nominees, James Claypoole and Robert Turner, granting Jones a further lot in Walnut Street "in the Citty of Philadelphia" for five silver shillings a year; docketed by Patrick Robinson, as Deputy, as recorded in the Patent Office, seal-tag with trace of seal, vellum, light dust-staining but overall in fresh and attractive condition, 197 x 265 mm., Philadelphia, 22 [June] 1685; with later correspondence, transcripts and engravings
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