Property map showing building lots, streets, and squares between Pensacola Bay, Bayou Texar, and Cervalos Street. Also shows the Pensacola and Blakely Railroad and depot, a cemetery, a park, and Bayou Cadet., Relief shown pictorially., Depth shown by form lines., Facsmile of signed statement of authenticity printed below title: A true copy from the original, George E. Chase, Surveyor; W.H. Chase, Trustee., Includes notes about the size of the lots and about sold lots being bounded by heavy lines., Includes lot numbers., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Price & Graham
Date
[ca. 1836]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **maps [301 M 1], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **maps [301 M 7]
Plate from a Philadelphia ward atlas showing a section of the seventh ward. Map includes area from Pine to South Streets and Eighteenth through Fifteenth Streets. Buildings are labeled with property owner, business, organization, and school names, including the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity, Thomas Durham Public School, Frederick Douglas Memorial Hospital & Training School, and Wesley A.M.E. Church., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Scale statement on map reads, “50 feet to one inch.”, Printed on recto: Plate 19., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.49]
Plate from a Philadelphia ward atlas showing a section of the seventh ward. Map includes area from Pine to South Streets and Nineteenth through Sixteenth Streets. Buildings are labeled with property owner, business, organization, and school names, including Philadelphia Polyclinic & College, St. Marks Church, and the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Scale statement on map reads, “50 feet to one inch.”, Printed on recto: Plate 18., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.48]
Map showing multiple Philadelphia properties belonging to John Earl to be sold at auction on April 14, 1857. Shows seven properties located between Crown Street and Frankford Road and two properties located between Union and Marlborough Streets. The acreage and ground rents are noted on each property., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on recto: To be sold at public sale, in pursuance of an order of the Orphan’s Court, on Tuesday, 14th April, 1857, at 7 ½ o’clock in the evening at the Philada Exhange. M. Thomas & Sons, auctioneers. NB. Other property, same estate, to be sold same evening, including vacant lots on Frankford Turnpike and Shackamaxon St. Also two four story brick stores nos., 172 & 174, North 3rd Street; Lot & buildings in Marshall Street, 9 well secured irredeemable ground rents &c., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1857]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.44]
Manuscript property map with printed illustration showing landowner’s names, land patents, and acreage of properties in Lykens, Pa. Properties listed include: Frederick Lubold, Frederick Harner, Jr., George Hoffman, John Gerger, George Rissinger, George Mayer, and Theodor Gratz. Also contains an illustration engraved by George Gilbert in the top center and depicting a crest with a ship, a plow, and sheaves of wheat. Above the crest is an eagle with outstretched wings and that is flanked by two horses on each side. Illustration also includes a banner reading “Virtue, Liberty, & Independence” that spans the bottom edge of the image., Title and date from item., Manuscript written on recto: Resurveyed and Divided formerly for Frederick Lubold, on the Twentythird Day of November, Anno Domini, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fortythree. The above Described tract of Land, Situate in Lykens Township, in the County of Dauphin, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Containing Fortyeight Acres and Fiftysix Perches of Land, Strictmeasures. Which being part of a larger tract of Land. John Paul, Jun’r., Gift of David Doret.
Creator
Paul, John, Jr., surveyor
Date
[1843]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Manuscripts [P.2019.62.6]
Map showing the Cresson property and including Erie, Venango, Tioga, Ontario, F, G, H, and I Streets. Shows the border lines of the property in red ink. Several rectangles, probably symbolizing buildings, are depicted between G and H Streets and Venango Street. Beneath the map is an American flag on a pole., Title and date from item., Text written on recto: Established Curl heights at corners in red ink. Grade per 100 feet in blue. Surface heights in black., Stamped on the verso: Alfred Fitler, Conveyancer, Phila., Jan. 13, 1869., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2020.
Creator
Shallcross, Isaac, surveyor
Date
1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.20]
Shows Florida including towns, townships, counties, lakes, islands, and railroads. Also shows the Florida Keys, and parts of Alabama and Georgia. Disston, son of Philadelphia saw mill magnate Henry Disston, purchased the Florida land in 1881., Includes inset of middle and southern Florida showing Orange, Sumter, Polk, Hernando, Manatee, Hillsborough and Monroe counties. Includes towns, rivers, lakes, islands, and railroads, Contains promotional text below neat line describing the advantages of the purchasable land including "Orange Groves, Vineyards, Early Vegetables, Tropical Fruits and Farming - Ready Access by Railroad and Steamboat Lines - Below general frost line - Ready market for products - Social advantages" as well as notice of a "Homestead Installment" plan. Also states to apply to the Florida Land & Improvement Co., N. E. cor. Third & Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia for descriptive map and full information., Includes "References" to railways finished and in progress; townships of 36 square miles; the embracing lands of Florida Land & Improvement Co. and Atlantic & Gulf Coast Canal & Okeechobee Land Co.; and route of Atlantic Coast Steamboat Canal & Improvement Co., Uncut informational pamphlet pages for the land company printed on verso including the names of the officers; descriptions of the area's history topography, politics, society, and climate; financial and legal information about purchases of land; farming tips about where, when, how and what to plant and market; and descriptions of the counties.
Creator
Bourquin, F. (Frederick), b. 1808
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***maps -Florida [132 M]
Aerial view showing the area between 46th, 42nd, Walnut streets and Baltimore Avenue. Includes lots for purchase at Satterlee Heights, residences, Mill Creek Culvert (built 1855), ponds, groves of trees and landscaped blocks. Key to 52 property holders printed above and below the image. Properties include Twadell Estate (1), Woodland Presbyterian Church (18), G. C. Fell's Buildings (20), Morton McMichael (25); Clarence H. Clark (i.e., Chestnutwold, later Clark's Park) (29), John McArthur, Jr. (33), William Blasius (38), and Mrs. Josephine Simpson (52). Also shows minimal street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages. The residential development of Satterlee Heights proceeded on land previously occupied by the Civil War hospital Satterlee U.S. General Hospital that operated 1862-1865., Contains pencil annotations of lot numbers on recto., Includes compass pointed to right., Printed on recto: These Lots for Sale by, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 674, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Lower left edge mended.
Creator
Herline & Co.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Hospitals [6537.F]
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), 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]
Date
[ca. 1798]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors - Maps [P.2017.8.1]
Manuscript map showing lots of land near and between Bitner, George, Elizabeth and Water Streets. Also includes the "Road from Columbia to Safe Harbor"; public grounds; a barn; ice house; and dwelling house., Title from item., Manuscript note on verso: Plan of Blue Rock. Filed in the Recorder's Office., Date inferred from reference to "Road from Columbia to Safe Harbor" Columbia was renamed from Wright's Ferry in 1788., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date
[ca. 1800]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors [P.2018.61.21]
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., 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.
Date
[ca. 1830]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Maps [P.2017.8.26]
Manuscript map showing landowner's names, lots, creeks, and lanes near the Delaware River in Kingsessing Township, Philadelphia. Lots include "Other land belonging to the estate of the late Wiliam Bingham, Esquire, deceased"; "Moses Palmer's Land"; "John Serrill's Land"; "Thomas Serill's Land"; "George Gesner's Land"; "Hunter's Land"; "Thomas Bradley's Land"; and "Land belonging to the heirs of Joseph Carson, decd." Also shows River Creek Lane, Martin's Lane, Bow Creek Drain and County line, Church Creek, Church Creek dam, Tinicum I[sland] Road, Martin's Bar in the Delaware River and part of Hog's Island. By 1800, Bow Creek and the Back Channel created boundary lines that separated Philadelphia and Delaware County. Bingham held one of the larger estates in this area., Right edge trimmed., Includes "Table of the Cou: & Dist: of the several Lots." Includes 10 coordinate and distance listings under "D"; 5 under "E"; 15 under "F"; and 9 under "G.", Includes scale: 20 perches to an Inch., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Map mounted on textile backing. Backing includes makers mark: Germantown [illegible] End Works. Power Loom. Mark illustrated with the seal of Pennsylvania.
Date
[1825]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors - Maps [P.2017.8.33]
Manuscript map showing landowner's names and lots southwest of Point House in Moyamensing. Lot owners include Eve Graffrey, "T. Walter & others," "T. Walter &c," and John Hunter. Lots to the north of those inscribed with names of landowners are marked (l-r): "C. No. 10"; "D. No. 11"; "B. No. 9"; "A. No. 8"; "No. 4"; "No. 5"; "No. 6.", Title supplied by cataloger., Includes compass., Includes "30 Ft Lane.", Includes "Ditch" lane., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date
[ca. 1830]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Maps [P.2017.8.27]
Map showing the estate of Sarah Emlen Cresson including Erie, Venango, Tioga, Ontario, Westmoreland, F, G, H, I, and J Streets. Shows the property divided into plots numbered 1 through 7 and labeled with the acreage. Depicts the mansion located in plot 5 and the tenant house and two barns located in plot 7., Title and date from item., Scale statement on map reads, “scale-80 feet to an inch.", Text on recto: Note-All areas extend to middle of streets. Blue figures represents confirmed curb elevation. Red [figures represents] present surface [elevation]., Table in the lower right depcited as a scroll and listing the seven plots with monetary valuations on the acreage., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2020.
Creator
Webster, George S., surveyor
Date
Nov. 1883
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.21]
Map showing the Cresson estate (likely Sarah Emlen Cresson) including Erie, Venango, Tioga, Ontario, G, H, and I Streets. Shows the property bordered and shaded in red. Several rectangles, probably symbolizing buildings, are depicted between G and H Streets and Venango Street. Shows the total acreage and railroad acreage., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text on recto: Note-copy of a survey and plan made by Isaac E. Shallcross with location and area of rail road added., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2020.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.22]
A land patent form., Second line of text, last word: Know., Printed on vellum; printed area measures 27.0 x 29.5 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Library Company copy completed in MS. for John Wallace, Jan. 28, 1754, granting him land in Somerset County; signed by Horatio Sharpe; with a MS. docket title., signed: Thos. Jennings clk., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731-1771
Date
[not after 1754]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1754 Balti 10210.F (Zinman)
A land patent form., Second line of text, last word: Know., Printed on vellum; printed area measures 27.0 x 29.5 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Library Company copy completed in MS. for John Wallace, Jan. 28, 1754, granting him land in Somerset County; signed by Horatio Sharpe; with a MS. docket title., signed: Thos. Jennings clk., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731-1771
Date
[not after 1754]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1754 Balti 10210.F (Zinman)
The Thomas FitzSimons Papers spans the period from 1784 to 1811, covering the years when he was closely involved in the bankruptcy proceedings of Robert Morris (1734-1806). The collection mainly holds documents relating to Morris's assets, particularly his land holdings, and their management., 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., Thomas FitzSimons, a merchant and a prominent member of Philadelphia's Irish-Catholic community, was born in Ireland in 1741, and immigrated to the United States with his family in the 1750s. FitzSimons entered politics after the American Revolution, representing Pennsylvania in the Continental Congresses of 1782 and 1783, and as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. After serving three terms in the Pennsylvania legislature, he was elected to the United States Congress in 1789 and remained there through 1795.
Creator
FitzSimons, Thomas, 1741-1811
Date
1793
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 020, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A64544#page/1/mode/1up
The Thomas Leiper family business records include “Letterbooks;” “Estate records;” “Paper, lumber and wood business records;” “Quarry business records;” “Tobacco business records;” and “Miscellaneous and household accounts and receipts,” dating from 1771 to 1947. These volumes document the business efforts of Thomas Leiper and his descendants, including the businesses of Thomas Leiper and Sons, Tobacconists; several quarries; a lumber yard and stable; and the Caldwell and Crosby estates. In addition to his other businesses, Leiper bought and sold real estate.
This collection documents John Dickinson's roles in politics, business, law, nation building, and the American Revolution. The collection is arranged in two series: "John Dickinson" and "Mary Norris Dickinson," with the bulk of the collection contained within the "John Dickinson" series. This collection was organized into its current arrangement, probably in 1978. Prior to that, the collection was described to an item level in a calendar created by John H. Powell. While the 1978 re-arrangement has resulted in the physical order of the calendar being unusable, the information contained therein is of the utmost value and a pdf version of the calendar is attached to this finding aid.
