Details
Creator Trent, William, 1715-1787?.
Contributor Croghan, George, d. 1782, correspondent.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, former owner.
Title William Trent Papers, 1763-1789 (inclusive).
Physical Description 1 box .21 linear ft.
Description The William Trent Papers describe some of Trent's land holdings and business dealings in Pennsylvania, upstate New York, Maryland, and the Ohio Valley, with several investors including John Swift, Joseph Morris, George Campbell, George Croghan, Joseph Simon, David Franks, and Thomas Smallman, among others. Among the documents is an undated “List of Books, Papers, &c being the contents of a Black Trunk, belonging to the estate of William Trent deceased” describing fifteen items and bundles of papers (none of which are contained in the McAllister Collection). Another undated document is Trent's copy of a list of twenty-eight parcels sold to Campbell, Mitchell, and Davis, which includes six tracts along Jennings Run in Maryland.
Notes On deposit at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For service, please contact the Historical Society at 215-732-6200 or http://www.hsp.org.
Biographical / historical note William Trent (1715-1787), soldier, Indian trader, and land speculator, was a prominent figure in the development of Western Pennsylvania during the second half of the eighteenth century.
Subject Ohio River Valley -- History.
Land settlement -- New Jersey.
Land settlement -- Pennsylvania.
Land settlement -- New York.
Real estate investment -- Middle Atlantic States.
Land speculation -- Middle Atlantic States.
Genre Bonds (legal records)
Deeds.
Indentures.
Inventories.
Powers of attorney
Legal documents
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| MSS | McA MSS 016
Accession number (McAllister)