PENN, William (1644-1718), Founder of Pennsylvania. Engraved document signed ("WmPenn," with flourish), n.p. [England], 11 April 1682. Very large oblong folio (20¾ x 26 in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, top edge neatly cut in a scallop as usual, large opening text ("This Indenture") finely engraved in an ornate copperplate hand with scolling flourishes, text written in an upright court hand, accomplished in a similar hand, boldly signed by the Proprietor of Pennsylvania on the parchment flap at bottom (a fine signature, clear and dark), two tiny holes along one fold. Verso endorsed by Penn's agents Harbart Springett, Benjamin Griffith and Thomas Coxe.
PENN, William (1644-1718), Founder of Pennsylvania. Engraved document signed ("WmPenn," with flourish), n.p. [England], 11 April 1682. Very large oblong folio (20¾ x 26 in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, top edge neatly cut in a scallop as usual, large opening text ("This Indenture") finely engraved in an ornate copperplate hand with scolling flourishes, text written in an upright court hand, accomplished in a similar hand, boldly signed by the Proprietor of Pennsylvania on the parchment flap at bottom (a fine signature, clear and dark), two tiny holes along one fold. Verso endorsed by Penn's agents Harbart Springett, Benjamin Griffith and Thomas Coxe. AN EARLY SALE OF LAND IN PENN'S NEW PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA, dated just two years after Penn received his official grant of lands in the New World by Charter from King Charles II, allowing him to launch what he called his "holy experiment": a colony "governed in accordance with the highest Christian ethic." The document is also dated just two weeks before before Penn issued his crucial and very influential first Frame of Government for the province (25 April 1682). In this, the largest and most ornate of the standard forms of grant used by Penn to sell land in America, "William Penn of Worminghast in the County of Sussex" certifies that he has sold to one George Wood, for 20 pounds sterling, a tract of 1,000 acres within his proprietorship, "situate lying and being within the Province of Pensilvania." Wood is assessed an annual quitrent of one shilling for each 100 acres in the tract.
PENN, William (1644-1718), Founder of Pennsylvania. Engraved document signed ("WmPenn," with flourish), n.p. [England], 11 April 1682. Very large oblong folio (20¾ x 26 in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, top edge neatly cut in a scallop as usual, large opening text ("This Indenture") finely engraved in an ornate copperplate hand with scolling flourishes, text written in an upright court hand, accomplished in a similar hand, boldly signed by the Proprietor of Pennsylvania on the parchment flap at bottom (a fine signature, clear and dark), two tiny holes along one fold. Verso endorsed by Penn's agents Harbart Springett, Benjamin Griffith and Thomas Coxe.
PENN, William (1644-1718), Founder of Pennsylvania. Engraved document signed ("WmPenn," with flourish), n.p. [England], 11 April 1682. Very large oblong folio (20¾ x 26 in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, top edge neatly cut in a scallop as usual, large opening text ("This Indenture") finely engraved in an ornate copperplate hand with scolling flourishes, text written in an upright court hand, accomplished in a similar hand, boldly signed by the Proprietor of Pennsylvania on the parchment flap at bottom (a fine signature, clear and dark), two tiny holes along one fold. Verso endorsed by Penn's agents Harbart Springett, Benjamin Griffith and Thomas Coxe. AN EARLY SALE OF LAND IN PENN'S NEW PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA, dated just two years after Penn received his official grant of lands in the New World by Charter from King Charles II, allowing him to launch what he called his "holy experiment": a colony "governed in accordance with the highest Christian ethic." The document is also dated just two weeks before before Penn issued his crucial and very influential first Frame of Government for the province (25 April 1682). In this, the largest and most ornate of the standard forms of grant used by Penn to sell land in America, "William Penn of Worminghast in the County of Sussex" certifies that he has sold to one George Wood, for 20 pounds sterling, a tract of 1,000 acres within his proprietorship, "situate lying and being within the Province of Pensilvania." Wood is assessed an annual quitrent of one shilling for each 100 acres in the tract.
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