Name/Title
Benjamin Shaw documentsEntry/Object ID
2013.6.11Scope and Content
One of a series of documents related to Benjamin Shaw's land in Germantown, consisting of a deed between "Edmund Kinsey of the City of Philadelphia Sadler and Samuel Story of the said City Currier of the first part . Jeremiah Johnson of the said City Sign painter of the second part and George Shaw of the said City Merchant of the third part. Witnesseth that the said Edmund Kinsey and Samuel Story at the request and by the direction and appointment of the said George Shaw (testified by his being a party to and sealing and delivering these presents) as well in consideration of the sum of eight thousand Dollars part of a larger Debt or sum' of Money due by the said George Shaw to his Brother Benjamin Shaw of Brook Street Grosvenor Square in the County of Middlesex within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland... All that certain Messuage, plantation, and several contiguous Tracts pieces or parcels of Land situate in the Township of Germantown on the South East and North West sides of the Gross roads or lane commonly called Bickesses Lane extending from the Germantown Main Street to Bristol Township line in the County of philadelphia containing in the whole together about seventy-five Acres of Lands be the same more or less."Collection
Deed Collection