Penn, William, 1644-1718. Records of the proprietary government, 1629-1828.
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Records of the proprietary government, 1629-1828.
Papers relating to the three lower counties, 1629-1774; Penn's deeds, 1639-1759, 1760-1801; leases and mortgages, 1670-1771; governor's proclamations, 1670-1775; county court records, town and county of Deale, 1681-1709; autograph petitions, 1681-1716; receipts for beaver skins for tenure, etc., 1752-1780; addresses to William Penn by Trade Society; petition to Lord Baltimore; petitions from Berks, Bucks, and Chester counties in favor of proprietary government, etc.; Pennsylvania land grants, 1681-1806; Assembly of Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, 1682-1874; the laws of Pennsylvania, 1682-1688; Pennsylvania charters, Frame of Government, with revised forms, 1683-1696, and marriage settlement and will of Thomas Penn, 1751-1774. Official correspondence, 1683-1817: letters from James Logan to John Penn and Hannah Penn, Lord Baltimore, William Penn, Governor Andrew Hamilton, Isaac Norris, W. Popple, Colonel Benjamin Fletcher, on Pennsylvania boundaries, acts for regulating trade, efforts to make Pennsylvania a crown colony, piracy and smuggling, decline in public morals, copper mine beyond Susquehanna, Keith-Logan controversy, Indian treaties, Conrad Weiser's address to the Germans, factions in politics, paper money, yellow fever, Ohio Company, Nicholas Scull, Edward Shippen, George Croghan, Connecticut intrusion, battle of Lexington, etc. Philadelphia land grants, Episcopal Church, Society of Friends, University Island in Delaware, 1684-1772; warrants and surveys, 1684-1776; Connecticut claims, 1684-1799; Planter's Speech to his Neighbors and Countrymen of Pennsylvania, East and West Jersey; Indian affairs, 1687-1801, contain information to Thomas Dongan, governor and vice admiral of New York, on invasion of Indians of the Five Nations, 1787; Governor Logan's speech to Sassoonan, 1731; negotiations with Six Nations; data on German Palatines, Conrad Weiser, Richard Peters, Sir William Johnson, Albany Congress, Connecticut purchase, Delaware controversy; George Croghan's account of Indian affairs, 1748-1749, to Braddock's defeat; maps and documents relating to Indian Walk, etc.; Governor John Blackwell manuscripts, 1689-1690; and acts of assembly, 1700-1763. Pennsylvania cash accounts, 1701-1778; Pennsylvania journals, 1701-1779, contain accounts of lands, quitrents, etc.; James Logan receipt book, 1702-1709, papers relating to iron, peltries, trade, etc., 1712-1817; bonds and powers of attorney, 1714-1828; "Supplementary Saunders Coates," 1720-1766, chiefly Thomas Penn letters to Richard Peters, on administrative affairs; Pennsylvania Assembly messages, 1727-1771; Wyoming controversy papers, 1731-1775, and William Smith and William Moore vs. Assembly, 1758-1759; account of quitrents, 1742; accounts of land in Chester County called "William Penn's Manor," 1747-1750; warrants to affix the great seal, 1749-1775; accounts, provincial tax for Philadelphia, 1759-1768; William Baker letterbook, 1769-1789; John Mifflin letterbook, 1788-1802; receipt book (of Philip Syng), provincial tax, 1759-1770; proprietary manors and lands in Pennsylvania, n.d.
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