Pennsylvania Land Grant

Publication Date: 1789

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Indenture on vellum measuring 28" X 11", Dated March 3, 1789, with one Pennsylvania seal and four red wax seals each signed by Alex Fullerton, Richard Fullerton, Esther Fullerton and Charles Marshall. John Evans was granted a portion of land to be purchased from the Fullerton family; Richard, Alex and Esther Fullerton and Charles Marshall (noted as a druggist as his father had been before him) in exchange for one hundred and twenty-five pounds for a designated strip of ground situated on the West side of Second Street* being bounded on the East by Second Street on the South by Vidells Alley on the West** which Aaron Jenkins by his last will directed to be left open for an alley and which by the present grant and conveyance becomes the absolute property of the said John Evans. Charles Marshall had earlier acquired land in the same area in 1772 (see John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, P. 1028ff. In 1776, the city government was abolished and the city functions were operated buy the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania. The Mayor's Court of the City of Philadelphia was created by act of assembly of March 11, 1789, incorporating the city of Philadelphia. The present indenture was drawn up before the city was incorporated eight days later. This was among the last land transactions before Philadelphia's incorporation. *containing in front three feet and in depth sixty feet, **by other ground of part of eight feet of ground by sixty in depth. Seller Inventory # 019220

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Title: Pennsylvania Land Grant

Publication Date: 1789