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PRINTED AND HANDWRITTEN LAND-OFFICE-OF-PENNSYLVANIA TRANSFER OF PROPERTY FROM STEPHEN HOLLINGSWORTH TO SAMUEL WALLIS, 1794

Author Name    Hollingsworth, Stephen

Title   PRINTED AND HANDWRITTEN LAND-OFFICE-OF-PENNSYLVANIA TRANSFER OF PROPERTY FROM STEPHEN HOLLINGSWORTH TO SAMUEL WALLIS, 1794

Binding   not bound

Book Condition   Very Good

Publisher   Northumberland County, PA 1794

Inscription   Signed

Seller ID   BOOKS011175I

One-page letterpress form, printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank. Details filled in and signatures executed in sepia ink. 13.25" x 8.25" In part: "Know all Men by these Presents, that whereas application hath been made by me Stephen Hollingsworth on the 5th July 1792 to the Land-Office of Pennsylvania, for a grant of a tract of land, containing four hundred Acres, Situate on a Stream which leads into the North Westerly side of Loyalsock creek above a large Hill called the Allegany Mountain to Include a Spring at an old Indian incampment in the County of Northumberland." For the sum of five shillings, Hollingsworth conveys the tract to "Samuel Wallis of Muncy Township in Northumberland County and State aforesaid, Esquire.," his heirs, &c., &c. Signed on June 21, 1794, by Stephen Hollingsworth and Henry Jones. Nice item for display. [Northumberland, the tenth Pennsylvania county, created on 21 March 1772 with the county seat at Sunbury, was once the largest American Indian community in the East, where the great chief Shikellimy resided.]

Price = 125.00 USD

 


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