This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... fore leaving Wales, that this desire should be gratified. The survey of the Welsh Tract was authorized by the following warrant from the Proprietary: "Whereas divers considerable persons among ye Welsh Friends have requested me y' all ye Lands Purchased of me by those of North Wales and South Wales, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... fore leaving Wales, that this desire should be gratified. The survey of the Welsh Tract was authorized by the following warrant from the Proprietary: "Whereas divers considerable persons among ye Welsh Friends have requested me y' all ye Lands Purchased of me by those of North Wales and South Wales, together with y adjacent counties to ym, as Haverfordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire, about fourty thousand acres, may be lay"1 out contiguously as one Braony, alledging yl ye number allready come and suddenly to come, are such as will be capable of planting ye same much wthin yc proportion allowed by ye custom of ye country, & so not lye in large and useless vacancies. And because I am inclined and determined to agree and favour ym wth any reasonable Conveniency & priviledge: I do hereby charge thee & strictly require thee to lay out ye sd tract of Land in as uniform a manner, as conveniently may be, upon y8 West side of Skoolkill river, running three miles upon ye same, & two miles backward, & then extend ye parallell w ye river six miles and to run westwardly so far as till ye sd quantity of land be Compleately surveyed unto ym -- Given at Pennsbury, y i3> i* mo. 1684." Will: Penn." "To Tho: Holmes, Surveyor-General." In pursuance of this warrant, the surveyor-general, on the 4th of the 2d month (April), 1684, issued an order to his deputy, David Powell, and after reciting it he directs him "to survey and sett out unto the said purchasers the said quantity of land, there, in manner as before expressed, and in method of townshipps lately appointed by the Governor att five thousand acres for a townshipp and to be directed (for placing the villages of each township and division of the purchasors) by Thomas...
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