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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 ... of the natives or aborigines ... of the first planters, the Dutch, &c ... to which is added, an account of the city of Philadelphia newly laid out : Its scituation [sic] between two navigable rivers, Delaware and Skulkill
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Penn, William, 1644-1718.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources.
- Pennsylvania.
- Pennsylvania--Description and travel.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Description and travel.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Indians of North America--Pennsylvania.
- Indians of North America.
- Physical Description:
- 24 p., [1] folded leaf : folded plan, facsimile ; 29 cm.
- Other Title:
- Coleman's re-print of William Penn's original proposal and plan for the founding & building of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, America, in 1683
- Place of Publication:
- Tottenham, [England] : James Coleman, 1881.
- Contents:
- 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
- A short advertisement upon the scituation [sic] and extent of the city of Philadelphia and the enduring plat-form thereof / by the Surveyor General
- An appendix to the plan from the Penn library.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : printed and sold by Andrew Sowle, 1863.
- 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.
- Contains:
- To the representatives of the free-men of this province of Pennsilvania [sic] and counties annexed, in assembly conven'd at Philadelphia the 10th of the 3d moneth [sic], 1692.
- OCLC:
- 918504
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