Proceedings of the General Assembly and the Supreme Executive Council, 1779-1788.

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Proceedings of the General Assembly and the Supreme Executive Council, 1779-1788.

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Copies of minutes and extracts from resolutions of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, 1779-1788, pertaining to the settlement of the Penn estate. Written and certified by Jacob Shallus, assistant clerk of the Assembly. Also copies, taken 1788, of the minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of 1785, pertaining to the monetary settlement of the estate. Also a pamphlet entitled Anno Regni Georgii III..., an act for the settlement of an annuity on the heirs of William Penn (Printed 1790).

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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