Details
Contributor Freytag, Michael, approximately 1765-1838, associated name.
Title [Manuscript map showing lots of land along the Delaware River north of the Gloucester Point Ferry, Philadelphia] [cartographic material].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1830
Date [ca. 1830]
Physical Description 1 map: ink and watercolor; 33 x 27 cm (13 x 10.75 in.)
Description Manuscript map showing landowner's names, lots, creeks, low water marks, and "road made thru the swamp & cripple in 1719 or 1720" in the area near the Point House in Moyamensing. Lot owners include Jones, Bankson, Lisle and Morris, Hockley, Hill and Morris, and Hamilton and Keith. Also contains lots marked: "15 Acres";"Proprietors till 1796 than Marshall"; "Flats not alluvial to low w[ater] m[ark]"; "Swedes in 1664." Low water marks are dated 1765, 1760, 1753. Creeks depicted include Hay Creek and L. Hollander Creek. Michael Freytag received the patent for the depicted lot from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1830. In 1875, the land was at the center of a suit brought against the commonwealth for having granted the patent through a fraudulence act. Freytag had claimed the premises in question were vacant, unimproved, and not previously patented, when older patents had been granted to "the Swedes" and Anthony Morris.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Upper edge trimmed.
Includes key: Yellow is the land patented by M. Freytag/Green is the meadow bank/Pink is the ditch made by Penn in 1741.
Includes partial key: North line to low water 122p/ Hamiltons --- on the road 103p/North line 50p South 1. 70p/Morris--- on the road 37p/North line 56p---South 1. 47p.
Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Subject Point House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Real property -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Landowners -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Moyamensing (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Maps.
Genre Manuscript maps -- 1820-1830.
Maps -- 1820-1830.
Watercolors -- 1820-1830.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Maps [P.2017.8.26]
Accession number P.2017.8.26