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From: Judy Ardine <>
Subject: [PACHESTE] Orignal Purchasers from PENN
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:33:33 -0500

This should be of interest to early county researchers.

Yahoo search on "William Penn" AND grants AND land
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http://www.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Historical_Museum/DAM/rg/sd/r17sdc.htm

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Bureau of Archives and History
Pennsylvania State Archives
RG-17
RECORDS OF THE LAND OFFICE
A. Papers and Correspondence
Series Descriptions
An Account of the Land in Pennsylvania Granted by William Penn . . . To
Several Purchasers
Within the Kingdom of England,
1681.
(1 item)
LO 23.1 PLR PLR 12
{series #17.295}
Grouped by purchaser group and unarranged thereunder.
An eleven-page original draft or copy of a catalog (filed with Proprietary
Papers, [ca. 1682-1788] {series #17.297}, folder 2, item 4) containing the
names from fifty-three original purchaser groups and accounting for the
sale of all of the original one hundred shares Penn planned to sell in
Pennsylvania. This document skips section XXXIII in numbering the purchaser
groups and section XLIV is blank. The Free Society of Pennsylvania accounts
for two purchaser groups who acquired ten thousand acres each. This catalog
also contains Penn's re-authorization of the Commissioners of Property to
supervise the layout
of town lots according to three sets of instructions.
An Account of the Land in Pennsylvania Granted by William Penn . . . To
Several Purchasers
Within the Kingdom of England,
1682.
(1 item)
LO 12. P. 11-12
{series #17.296}
Grouped by purchaser group and unarranged thereunder.
A catalog containing the names of 259 purchaser groups divided into
thirty-two sections and accounting for sixty-four of the original one
hundred shares Penn planned to sell. This catalog is filed with Proprietary
Papers, [ca. 1682-1788] {series #17.297} and apparently arrived with the
first shipload of passengers to Pennsylvania. Included are Penn's
announcement of the appointment of the original Commissioners of Property
and his instructions to allot 10,000 acres for a town in which the
purchasers of every 5,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania were to be entitled
to 100 acres in town lots. The catalog was copied into Patent Book AA-5
{series #17.142}, pp. 130-139 in 1763 from the original three pieces of
parchment.
A copy of the third catalog of purchasers in England dated May 22, 1682 and
entitled "Sales in England by William Penn of Lands in Pennsylvania"
contains fifty-seven purchaser groups. This list will be found in RG-21,
Records of the Proprietary Government, Miscellaneous Papers, 1664-1775
{series #21.9} (item 15, Reel 600, PLR 12). Some purchaser's names appear
more than once on the latter list because they acquired additional shares.
William Penn's business manager, Philip Ford, hand carried this copy to
Surveyor General Thomas Holme in Pennsylvania. The handwritten notation on
the manuscript reading "Left by Isaac Brown" refers to Isaac B. Brown,
Secretary of Internal Affairs in 1895 and 1903-7. The
catalog has been published in Pennsylvania Annals, 637-642 and Pennsylvania
Archives, (1) 1:39-46.
1682-1684.
(6 pages)
LO 25.3 PLR 12
{series #17.298}
Grouped by purchaser group.
The first six pages of Warrant Book No. 3 {series #17.63}(Binding 15)
contain this official alphabetical list entitled "An Account of Lands in
Pennsylvania Granted by William Penn to Several Purchasers in England,
Scotland, Ireland." Information given is the purchaser&rsquo;s name, the
amount of land purchased, and sometimes the general location of the
purchase. The 1759 transcript will be found in Proprietary Warrants {series
#17.65}(Binding 26) LO 25.5.
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