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PENN, William (1644-1718), Founder of Pennsylvania. Engraved document signed ("WmPenn," with flourish), countersigned at lower left by Penn's agents Harbert Springett, Benjamin Griffith and Thomas Coxe, n.p. [England], 11 April 1682. 1 full page, integral blank with dockets, text finely engraved in an upright Court hand and accomplished in manuscript. WITH A FINE INTACT IMPRESSION OF PENN'S SIGNET SEAL IN RED WAX. In very fine condition.
PENN, William (1644-1718), Founder of Pennsylvania. Engraved document signed ("WmPenn," with flourish), countersigned at lower left by Penn's agents Harbert Springett, Benjamin Griffith and Thomas Coxe, n.p. [England], 11 April 1682. 1 full page, integral blank with dockets, text finely engraved in an upright Court hand and accomplished in manuscript. WITH A FINE INTACT IMPRESSION OF PENN'S SIGNET SEAL IN RED WAX. In very fine condition. DATED TWO WEEKS BEFORE PENN'S FIRST FRAME OF GOVERNMENT FOR PENNSYLVANIA. A fine example of the smaller format paper receipt used at this date by Penn to certify receipt of funds from the sale of lands in his proprietorship in the New World. Both this and the following lot are dated just two weeks before Penn issued his crucial and very influential first Frame of Government for the province (25 April 1682). By this attractively engraved document, Penn confirms receipt from "John Blunston of little Hallam in the County of Derby, husbandman," of 30 pounds sterling for purchase of a tract of 1,500 "Acres of land in Pensylvania."