Guide to Records of the Sale of Commonwealth Property in the County of Philadelphia, 1780-1798

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Guide to Records of the Sale of Commonwealth Property in the County of Philadelphia, 1780-1798

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Year: 1996
Pages: 20
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 1422367339

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James M. Duffin (ed); Mark Frazier Lloyd (fr)
Abstracts the names of those whose wartime purchase of previously unsold Phila. County land helped fund the PA troops in the Amer. Revolutionary army. The individ. who paid their private fortunes into the provisional commonwealth gov’t. were taking financial risk & demonstrating real courage in their patriotism, for the land they were purchasing had been confiscated in 1779 from the Penn family proprietors of PA, who objected & asserted their continuing property rights. If the British had defeated the Amer. revolutionaries, the restored proprietary courts would have ruled the sales null & void & perhaps declared them an act of treason. The land would have reverted to the Penn family & the Amer. purchase money lost. Includes street locations. (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1996)

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