A letter from William Penn, proprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the committee of the Free Society of Traders of that province, residing in London : containing a general description of the said province, its soil, air, water, seasons and produce, both natural and artficial, and the good encrease thereof : of the natives or aborigines, their language, customs and manners ... of the first planters, the Dutch, &c ... to which is added, an account of the city of Philadelphia newly laid out, its scituation between two navigable rivers, Delaware and Skulkill ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penn, William, 1644-1718.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Pennsylvania.

Indians of North America.

Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Description and travel.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Pennsylvania--Description and travel.

Physical Description:

24 pages : frontispiece (folded plan) ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Coleman's reprint of William Penn's original proposal and plan for the founding ... of Philadelphia

Place of Publication:

Tottenham : Reprinted by J. Coleman, 1881.

Notes:

Title on wrapper: Coleman's re-print of William Penn's original proposal and plan for the founding & building of Philadelphia ...

Photocopy. Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Photoduplication Dept., 2003. 28 cm.

Includes (p. 10-14) the catalogue of lot-holders in Philadelphia, wanting in many copies of the original.

An appendix (p. [15]-24) added to the Letter by the publisher ... contains an address "To the representatives of the free-men of ... Pennsylvania ... 1692," a list of landholders of the period 1720-30, a list of proprietary tracts or manors in the province (undated), a short description of Philadelphia and a list of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, 1776.

OCLC:

63600065