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FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790), Signer, Pennsylvania. Manuscript document signed ("B. Franklin" with flourish) as President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, [Philadelphia], 27 April 1787. 1 page, 340 x 397 mm., ON FINE PARCHMENT, large papered seal at top left corner, bold heading, text in a neat clerical hand, countersigned by James Trimble. In very fine condition.
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FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790), Signer, Pennsylvania. Manuscript document signed ("B. Franklin" with flourish) as President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, [Philadelphia], 27 April 1787. 1 page, 340 x 397 mm., ON FINE PARCHMENT, large papered seal at top left corner, bold heading, text in a neat clerical hand, countersigned by James Trimble. In very fine condition.
A particularly attractive example of a land grant certified by Pennsylvania's governor, with a fine, large signature by Franklin, acknowledging payment by Marcus Young of £13.15.10 for the Commonweath's grant of "a certain tract of land called 'Prospect Hill.'" The land, situated on Montours Ridge in Mahoning Township, of Nothumberland County, begins "at a post in a line of James Wilson's land thence by the same East two hundred and thirty two perches to a post in a line of William Scull's land..." The neighboring landowner is very likely James Wilson (1742-1798) a fellow Pennsylvania signer of the Declaration of Indepndence, who was active as an agent in land speculation on Pennsylvania's western reaches and personally owned large tracts of land there.
A particularly attractive example of a land grant certified by Pennsylvania's governor, with a fine, large signature by Franklin, acknowledging payment by Marcus Young of £13.15.10 for the Commonweath's grant of "a certain tract of land called 'Prospect Hill.'" The land, situated on Montours Ridge in Mahoning Township, of Nothumberland County, begins "at a post in a line of James Wilson's land thence by the same East two hundred and thirty two perches to a post in a line of William Scull's land..." The neighboring landowner is very likely James Wilson (1742-1798) a fellow Pennsylvania signer of the Declaration of Indepndence, who was active as an agent in land speculation on Pennsylvania's western reaches and personally owned large tracts of land there.