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A letter from William Penn poprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that province, residing in London. : containing a general description of the said province, its soil, air, water, seasons and produce, both natural and artificial, and the good encrease thereof. Of the natives or aborigines, their language, customs and manners, diet, houses or wigwams, liberality, easie way of living, physick, burial, religion, sacrifices and cantico, festivals, government, and their order in council upon treaties for land, &c. their justice upon evil doers. Of the first planters, the Dutch, &c. and the present condition and settlement of the said province, and courts of justice, &c. To which is added, an account of the city of Philadelphia newly laid out. Its scituation between two navigable rivers, Delaware and Skulkill, with a portraiture or plat-form thereof, wherein the purchasers lots are distinguished by certain numbers inserted, directing to a catalogue of the said purchasors names and the prosperous and advantagious settlements of the Society aforesaid, within the said city and country, &c.

Title
A letter from William Penn poprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that province, residing in London. : containing a general description of the said province, its soil, air, water, seasons and produce, both natural and artificial, and the good encrease thereof. Of the natives or aborigines, their language, customs and manners, diet, houses or wigwams, liberality, easie way of living, physick, burial, religion, sacrifices and cantico, festivals, government, and their order in council upon treaties for land, &c. their justice upon evil doers. Of the first planters, the Dutch, &c. and the present condition and settlement of the said province, and courts of justice, &c. To which is added, an account of the city of Philadelphia newly laid out. Its scituation between two navigable rivers, Delaware and Skulkill, with a portraiture or plat-form thereof, wherein the purchasers lots are distinguished by certain numbers inserted, directing to a catalogue of the said purchasors names and the prosperous and advantagious settlements of the Society aforesaid, within the said city and country, &c.
Physical Description
1 online resource (14 pages) : plan.
Local Notes
LLMC Digital Library Collection
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (LLMC Digital, viewed March 29, 2019).
Other formats
Print version: Penn, William, 1644-1718. Letter from William Penn proprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America. [London] : Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle, at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch, and at several stationers in London, 1683
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 08, 2019
References
Wing P1319.
Genre/Form
Early works.
Early works.
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