Name/Title
Benjamin Shaw documentsEntry/Object ID
2013.6.6Scope and Content
One of a series of documents related to Benjamin Shaw's land in Germantown. This is a "formal" deed, with parts of the deed needing no change printed in type as a form, with blanks to be filled in. Deed is between Thomas Carter and George Shaw, for "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 Cross road or lane commonly called Bickus's Lane extending from the Germantown Main Street to Bristol Township line in the County of Philadelphia aforesaid, containig in the whole together, about Seventy Five Acres of Land be the same more or less (being the same premises which the said George Shaw and Mary his Wife by her attorney the said George Shaw by Indenture bearing even date herewith, but executed immediately before the execution of these presents granted and confirmed to the said Thomas Carter's ...? subject to this present Indenture of Mortgage. Dated December 21, 1812.
Sealed with wax.Collection
Deed Collection