Three Documents

Three Documents 

A group of material pertaining to New Castle and Berks Counties, Pennsylvania, dated between 1714 and 1787

Lot includes:

Isaac Taylor. New Castle County Land Survey, 1714. 1 page (12 1/2 x 8 in.; 318 x 208 mm). Manuscript land survey, pen and ink on paper, period hand-coloring in outline, laid on linen; old folds, splits to folds, some browning, offsetting, and staining. By order of James Logan, Attorney for William Penn, a 100 acre tract on White Clay Creek "within the land of William Penn Mannor" is laid out.

Thomas Lee and Mary Boone. Quaker marriage certificate. Oblong folio (12 1/4 x 15 1/2 in.; 313 x 390 mm). Manuscript document, pen and ink on paper, dated 14 May 1778, issued in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and witnessed by the Boone family; browning and staining, old folds with some loss costing a few letters, apparently backed with old paper Framed and glazed; not examined out of frame. 

John Lee and Elizabeth Ellis. Quaker marriage certificate. Folio (15 1/2 x 12 3/8 in.; 390 x 320 mm). Manuscript document, pen and ink on paper, dated 7 June 1787, issued in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and witnessed by the Boone family; staining and foxing, splits to folds with paper reinforcements. Framed and glazed; not examined out of frame.