Manuscript document signed : South Carolina, 12 May 1735.

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Manuscript document signed : South Carolina, 12 May 1735.

Land grant on parchment allocating 12,000 acres of land to Jean Pierre Purry, from a total of 48,000 reserved for him along the north shore of the Savannah River, for the purpose of settling a colony of Swiss emigrants. The grant includes a survey of the land. It is signed by James St. John, surveyor general, as well as Thomas Broughton, lieutenant governor of South Carolina.

broadside ; 62 x 69 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7816118

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Purry, Jean Pierre, active 1718-1731

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Broughton, Thomas Harris

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