This land indenture, or deed, from David Wilkins and his wife Anne is granted to Jonathan Germain, all eighteenth-century residents of Newark, White Clay Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. Jonathan Germain was a blacksmith, though David Wilkin’s occupation remains unknown.
This indenture also traces the ownership of this parcel of land back through the owners back to the original grant held by John Guest, a wealthy jurist from Philadelphia, in 1702. Guest held many positions of power in Pennsylvania, including being a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Council.
"Guest, John." In Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, vol. 3: 11. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887. Additional historical information derived from the document.
From the guide to the Land indenture between David Wilkin, his wife Ann, and Jonathan Germain, Blacksmith, of Newark in White Clay Creek Hundred and County of Newcastle on Delaware, 1763 May 17, (University of Delaware Library - Special Collections)
