FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790), Signer (Pennsylvania) . Manuscript document signed ("B. Franklin" with large flourish) as President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, [Philadelphia], 24 May 1787. 1 page, oblong (13 x 16 in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, large star-shaped papered seal at top left corner, bold heading, text in a neat clerical hand, countersigned by James Trimble. Double-matted with a portrait in a fine giltwood frame. In fine condition. An attractive example of a land grant certified by Pennsylvania's governor, with a fine, large signature by Franklin, acknowledging payment by Robert Rutherford of 10 shillings and ten pence for the Commonwealth's grant of "a certain tract of land called 'The Addition'" The land, situated on "Coal Pitt Run in Washington County," begins "at a white oak," and its bounds are carefully described as per surveys made in 1784 and 1785.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790), Signer (Pennsylvania) . Manuscript document signed ("B. Franklin" with large flourish) as President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, [Philadelphia], 24 May 1787. 1 page, oblong (13 x 16 in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, large star-shaped papered seal at top left corner, bold heading, text in a neat clerical hand, countersigned by James Trimble. Double-matted with a portrait in a fine giltwood frame. In fine condition. An attractive example of a land grant certified by Pennsylvania's governor, with a fine, large signature by Franklin, acknowledging payment by Robert Rutherford of 10 shillings and ten pence for the Commonwealth's grant of "a certain tract of land called 'The Addition'" The land, situated on "Coal Pitt Run in Washington County," begins "at a white oak," and its bounds are carefully described as per surveys made in 1784 and 1785.
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