Colonial Records (Volume 12) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1853. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... corner of Melehior Mengs' land; thenc? by the said Melehior Mengs' land, forty degrees east forty perches and one-half of a perch to Germantown Main street, aforesaid; thence by the same north twenty-eight degrees west four perches and twenty-four links, to the place of beginning; containing about one acre and forty perches, be the same more or less: Seized and sold agreeable to law, (as the estate late of Holton Jones, an attainted traytor, ) to the eaid Joseph Dean, for the sum of eleven thousand one hundred pounds, Continental money, subject to a yearly ground rent, payable to the Trustees of the University of this State, of five bushells and eleven-twentieth parta of a bushell, of good merchantable wheat, three-fourths of which sum he hath paid into the hands of the Agents of Confiscated Estates in the city of Philadelphia; the remaining one-fourth reserved for the purpose aforesaid. Deed dated the thirty-first day of January last. In Council. Philad'a, Monday, February 26th, 1781. Present: His Excellency JOSEPH REED, Esquire, President. Honourable the Vice President. Mr. Read, Mr. Piper, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Cunningham, and Mr. Van Campen, Mr. Hayes. Mr. Potter, An order was drawn on tte Treasurer m favour of Colonel Lewis Nichola, for the sum of one hundred and twelve pounds ten shillings, amonnt of six months' pay due to him as Town Major, from the nineteenth of August, 1780, to the nineteenth instant. An order was drawn on the Treasurer in favour of Messrs. Joseph Dean and Jacob Morris, Auditors of Accounts, for the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, State money, for the purpose of paying in part the depreciation allowed by act of Assembly to the officers and soldiers of the Pensylvania line, for which the said Auditors are to account. On considerat...