Der neue Charter. oder Schrifftliche Versicherung der Freyheiten, welche William Penn. Esq: den Einwohnern von Pennsylvanien und dessen Territorien gegeben. / Aus dem englischen Original übersetzt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pennsylvania.

Contributor:

Penn, William, 1644-1718.

Pennsylvania. Governor (1699-1701 : Penn)

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 5271.

Standardized Title:

Charter (1701). German

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Pennsylvania--Politics and government--To 1775.

Pennsylvania.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (55 id est, 56 pages)

Place of Publication:

Germantown [Pa.] : Gedruckt bey Christoph Saur, 1743[-1744].

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Contains, in addition to the new charter of privileges granted by Penn Oct. 28, 1701: the Royal grant of the province to Penn by Charles II; the first frame of government, 1682; laws agreed upon in England; certain conditions and concessions agreed upon July 11, 1681; the Act of Settlement, 1682; extracts from the charter of Philadelphia; an abstract of the poor laws; and extracts from various laws.

"Given to the subscribers of Saur's paper [Der Hoch-Deutsch Pennsylvanische Geschicht-Schreiber] as a premium in parts of eight pages each. Begun in 1743 but not finished printing till about July 1744."--Evans.

"Charter," "William Penn. Esq.," "Territorien," and "Original" printed in Roman type.

Errors in paging: number 7 repeated; pages 12 misnumbered 15.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 5271).

Cited in:

Evans 5271

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 809

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 860

Bötte and Tannhof. German printing, 56

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