. Life and times of Conrad Weiser : the first representative man of Berks County . 3, and was part of an ex-tensive tract containing 5165 acres which was originallygranted by the Penns to one John Page in 1735, andby the Letters Patent erected into a manor, called the Manor of Pluraton. Several other manors of thiskind were set apart by the Penns in the territory nowincluded in Berks County, as the Manor of Tulpe-hocken, the Manor of Ruscomb, and the Manorof Penns Mount, but they were not granted as suchto any private individual. The Manor of Plumton was the only one in BerksCounty which was s
. Life and times of Conrad Weiser : the first representative man of Berks County . 3, and was part of an ex-tensive tract containing 5165 acres which was originallygranted by the Penns to one John Page in 1735, andby the Letters Patent erected into a manor, called the Manor of Pluraton. Several other manors of thiskind were set apart by the Penns in the territory nowincluded in Berks County, as the Manor of Tulpe-hocken, the Manor of Ruscomb, and the Manorof Penns Mount, but they were not granted as suchto any private individual. The Manor of Plumton was the only one in BerksCounty which was sold with the right and power ofconstituting a Court Baron; but the manor was notheld together and the Court was not established. Aspecial power of this kind was contrary to the principlesof Conrad Weiser. He had seen, heard and felt enoughof a kindred power in the Palatinate; hence, we mayinfer, he would not assume and exercise the judicialrights with which he had been duly invested. -ESTABLISHED IN 1844. -^ -«H- Sellers, Medlar & Bacliinan ^ > ^iXTHandpEWMdLOTHKjflOU^E. T/ir Largest Variety of^ • • Mens, Boys m -Shildi^bns Slothing • • • • ^ ^ /lasten/ Pennsylvaiua. ALL GOODS SOLI) AT A MODERATE PRICE. 1 %mB^, MEDLAl^ \ BfidjlMAW,^^ N. E. Corner Sixth and Penn Sts. WEISER LECTURE. i^o First Store-Stand at Reading.—The town of Readingwas laid out by Thomas and Richard Penn, sons ofWilliam Penn, in 1748, and the next year they ap-pointed Conrad Weiser as the first-named of three com-missioners to dispose of the lots by public sale. Amonsi;those sold, Weiser himself purchased several promi-nent lots on Penn Square. In 1749 he took possession
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