PARTIALLY PRINTED PENNSYLVANIA LAND PATENT, COMPLETED IN MANUSCRIPT, FOR A TRACT OF LAND CALLED 'HARTFORD' IN NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, CONVEYED BY THE COMMONWEALTH TO DAVID WILLIAMSON. THE COMMONWEALTH HAD PREVIOUSLY CONVEYED THE TRACT TO BENJAMIN HARVEY, WHO BY DEED OF 1791 THEN CONVEYED THE TRACT TO WILLIAMSON. SIGNED BY GOVERNOR THOMAS MIFFLIN, AND BY JAMES TRIMBLE AS DEPUTY SECRETARY, NOVEMBER 26, 1795.
Oblong 20" X 11 1/2". On parchment. In typescript, completed in manuscript. With elaborate typography. Metes and bounds described. Seal in upper left corner of recto, docketed on verso, also with seal. Very attractive. Old folds, Near Fine. During the Revolution, Mifflin had been quartermaster general of the Continental Army..... More