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Contributor Howell, Reading, 1743-1827, surveyor.
Mifflin, Thomas, 1777-1820.
Mifflin, Elizabeth, 1775-1820.
Cresson, Caleb, 1775-1821, associated name.
Shippen, Edward, 1729-1806, associated name.
Waln, Sarah, 1779-1833, associated name.
Title Deed of release Thomas Mifflin Jr. to Elizabeth Mifflin [cartographic material].
Title This indenture made the [thirteenth] day of [January] in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight between Thomas Mifflin junior of the city of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania merchant of the one part and Elizabeth Mifflin of the same place spinster of the other part...
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1798
Date [ca. 1798]
Physical Description 1 item: ink and watercolor; folded 76 x 76 cm (30 x 30 in.)
Description Indenture for the division of Mifflin Family lots in Southwark containing a manuscript map by Reading Howell showing the Thomas Mifflin Jr. and Elizabeth Mifflin lots (N. 1, N. 4-12) along Shippen Street and Mariott's Lane from Passyunk Road, to Second Street, to Front Street, to Swanson Street, to Delaware River. Also shows Marriot's Lane and the surrounding lots of William Clifton; Paul Beck; Estate of E. Flowers; D. Conry; Shippen; Thomas Penrose; and Joseph Huddels. Elizabeth Mifflin lots are annotated in pencil: "Feby. 15, 1798 sold in G. Rent and Sold on G. Rent by E. Wistar" (N. 6-8); "Sold By E. Wistar to Adam Iseminger Decr 18, 1820" (N.12); "Sold by E. Wistar to John Livezley, July 14, 1819" (N. 9); and "Sold by E. Wister to John Livezley 14 July 1819" (N. 10)
Notes Completed in manuscript on parchment for Thomas Mifflin Jr.; dated February 16, 1798; sealed and delivered in the presence of Sarah Waln and Caleb Cresson, Jr.; witnessed by Edward Shippen and signed by Thomas Mifflin Jr.
Contains annotations in pencil dated 1819 and 1820.
Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
See also Freedman Collection - Maps - Southwark maps [P.2013.87.374]
Subject Mifflin family.
Real property -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Landowners -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Southwark (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Maps.
Genre Deeds -- 1790-1800.
Manuscript maps -- 1790-1800.
Maps -- 1790-1800.
Watercolors -- 1790-1800.
Provenance Cresson, Caleb, 1775-1821, associated name.
Shippen, Edward, 1729-1806, associated name.
Waln, Sarah, 1779-1833, associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors - Maps [P.2017.8.1]
Accession number P.2017.8.1