Deed Collection

Valley Forge

Deeds for land now part of Valley Forge Park, Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

• • • 1749 – Mary Meredith (executrix to Owen Jones) to Benj. Watkin.  (See Francis Wayne and Henry Pawling)
    • 1761 – Benj. Watkin to L. Davis
    • 1761 – James Inglis to Peter Matson (mentions Manor of Mt. Joy and Wm. Penn)
    • 1764 – L. Davis to James Inglis
    • 1773 – Peter Matson to Henry Pawling
    • 1774 – Henry Pawling to Peter Matson (See title Bring Down)
    • 1744 – Henry Owen to James Davis
    • Dated 1773 – one of 6 consecutive ownerships for 125 acre farm, now part of Valley Forge National Park

Cheltenham

• • • Deed signed by Frederick Augustus Muhlenburg

Lower Merion

• • • 1839 Deed signed by General Winfield Scott of Civil War fame.

• Joseph Galloway the Traitor

• • •  30 Deeds for farm that was part of Brandywine Battlefield
    • 2 Deeds signed by Thomas McKean, signer of the Declaration of Independence

• • • 1674 Deed for Newtown
    • 2 Deeds signed by John Morton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
    • 3 Deeds from 1693 for Newtown Square

•  1838 form printed Deed for Northampton County

• Little Elk River 1746

• William Penn – Sussex County, Delaware 1707

• Thomas Yardley – Burlington County, New Jersey 1797

Including – New York, Connecticut, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, Texas, etc…

• Rhinebeck, New York 1794

• • • 1687 – George Lord Jeofferies (or “Jeffreys” or “Jefferies”) and his brother-in-law Thomas Bloodworth for sale of Manor of Easthampnet.  Bloodworth was Mayor of London when it burned down in 1666.  Jeofferies was famous in his own right as the infamous Chancellor of James II.   This document is unique in that it was signed just before the Glorious Revolution of 1688.  Jeofferies no doubt felt a sense of pending danger.
    • 1751 – Lease between Ann Middleton of Cambridge and William Sauxter of Ely Isle in Cambridge for land in Wentworth.
    • 1862 – Marriage Settlement from Major Henry Thomas Arbuthnot to Anna Jane Molobray.
    • 1803 – Will of Colonial Henry Gordon.
    • 1606 – Latin Document Conveyance of Manor Worthie Pauncefote – issued by Kings Court at Westminster.
    • 1765 Lease, Reverend Thomas Janner, President of College of Mary Magdalene at University of Oxford to Benjamin Whiteer for land in Southhampton City.  Stamp Act Stamp fixed to Document.
    • 1847 – Last Will of Richard Thomas Williams (Surgeon) of City of Bristol.  Great Seal of Archbishop of Canterbury.
    • 1699 – Thomas Browning et al to William Smith for 36 acres in Canterbury, England.
    • 1807 – Reverend Henry Norwich, Bishop of Norwich to Mrs. Sarah Lowden, for land in Norwich.  Great seal.
    • 1807 – John Knowles, Esq. of Painswirk, County of Gloucester to William Drent, agreement for Church Pew.
    • 1814 – Will of George Hatfield of His Majesty’s Treasury Whitehall.
    • 1658 – Deed, Richard Hamden, Esq. et al to Richard Browne.  P.S. – Hamden was in Parliament in 1656 representing Windover, and also, an  Attorney to Oliver Cromwell.
    • 1798- Assignment of land in America signed by General John Read of Read School of Music fame.  Also, signed by Aaron Burr, Walter and John Rutherford.
    • 1792, 1802, 1832 – 3 Agreements relating to and signed by Gillows of Gillows Department Store and Furniture Maker on Oxford Street in London.
    • 20 fragments of early English Deeds.