PENN, WILLIAM (1644-1718), Founder of Pennsylvania . Partly printed document signed ("Wm Penn") WITH PENN'S SMALL RED WAX SEAL INTACT, countersigned by Thomas Lloyd, Benjamin Griffith and Thomas Coxe, n.p., 20 March 1681. 1 page, small folio, 255 x 175 mm. (10 x 6.7/8 in.), integral blank . A VERY EARLY SALE OF PENNSYLVANIA LAND., dated only a year after the official Charter granted to Penn by Charles II in March 1680/81, which launched what Penn called his "holy experiment": a colony governed "in accordance with the highest Christian ethic." A rare form of document, engraved in an ornate copperplate script and accomplished in manuscript. "William Penn of Worminghurst" certifies the receipt from David Middlecroft, "husbandman," of 8. for 400 acres of "land in Pennsylvania." At bottom is a clerical note that the transaction was recorded in Philadelphia in February 1683/84. Apparently the earliest form of document recording Penn's many sales of land in the new colony; it appears to predate the more common form of indenture which set out the boundaries of the tract purchased and specified the annual quitrent. Penn's wax seal, displaying his coat-of-arms, is rare.
PENN, WILLIAM (1644-1718), Founder of Pennsylvania . Partly printed document signed ("Wm Penn") WITH PENN'S SMALL RED WAX SEAL INTACT, countersigned by Thomas Lloyd, Benjamin Griffith and Thomas Coxe, n.p., 20 March 1681. 1 page, small folio, 255 x 175 mm. (10 x 6.7/8 in.), integral blank . A VERY EARLY SALE OF PENNSYLVANIA LAND., dated only a year after the official Charter granted to Penn by Charles II in March 1680/81, which launched what Penn called his "holy experiment": a colony governed "in accordance with the highest Christian ethic." A rare form of document, engraved in an ornate copperplate script and accomplished in manuscript. "William Penn of Worminghurst" certifies the receipt from David Middlecroft, "husbandman," of 8. for 400 acres of "land in Pennsylvania." At bottom is a clerical note that the transaction was recorded in Philadelphia in February 1683/84. Apparently the earliest form of document recording Penn's many sales of land in the new colony; it appears to predate the more common form of indenture which set out the boundaries of the tract purchased and specified the annual quitrent. Penn's wax seal, displaying his coat-of-arms, is rare.
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