Narratives of early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707 . Library. Fold-outPlaceholder This fold-out is being digitized, and will be insert future date. 1683] LETTER TO THE SOCIETY OF TRADERS 243 and because there is not room to express the Purchasers Namesin the Draught, I have therefore drawn Directions of Reference,by way of Numbers, whereby may be known each mans Lotand Place in the City. The City is so ordered now, by the Governours Care andPrudence, that it hath a Front to each River, one half at Dela-ware, the other at Skulkill; and though all this cannot makeway for s
Narratives of early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707 . Library. Fold-outPlaceholder This fold-out is being digitized, and will be insert future date. 1683] LETTER TO THE SOCIETY OF TRADERS 243 and because there is not room to express the Purchasers Namesin the Draught, I have therefore drawn Directions of Reference,by way of Numbers, whereby may be known each mans Lotand Place in the City. The City is so ordered now, by the Governours Care andPrudence, that it hath a Front to each River, one half at Dela-ware, the other at Skulkill; and though all this cannot makeway for small Purchasers to be in the Fronts, yet they areplaced in the next Streets, contiguous to each Front, viz. allPurchasers of One Thousand Acres, and upwards, have theFronts, (and the High-street) and to every five ThousandAcres Purchase, in the Front about an Acre, and the smallerPurchasers about half an Acre in the backward Streets; bywhich means the least hath room enough for House, Gardenand small Orchard, to the great Content and Satisfaction of allhere concerned. The City, (
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