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Benjamin Shaw documentsEntry/Object ID
2013.6.10Scope and Content
One of a series of documents related to Benjamin Shaw's land in Germantown, consisting of a deed between "Benjamin Shaw of Lower Brook Street Grosvenor Square London Gentleman formerly of the City of Philadelphia by Joseph Reed Ingersoll Esquire of the City of Philadelphia Counsellor at Law his Attorney duly constituted by Letter of Attorney... A certain messuage or tenement Plantation and Tract or piece of Land situate on the South East Side of Bristol Street commonly called Bickesses [sic] Lane extending from the Germantown Main Street to Bristol Township line in Germantown Township in the County of Philadelphia Bounded and described as followeth agreeable to a survey lately made thereof by Ennion Williams Survey viz. Beginning at Stone at the aforesaid side of the said Bickesses Lane thence by the same South forty one degrees and a half west two hundred and three perches to Stone thence by Land of Caspar Haines South forty eight degrees and a half East fifty perches and two tenths to a corner thence extending north forty one degrees and a half East sixty eight perches and two tenths to Stone and South forty eight degrees and a half East seven perches thence by land of Theobold Boyer north forty one degrees and a half East ... ...thirty eight perches and eighty five hundredths of a perch thence extending by Abraham Kolps land north forty one degrees west fifty one perches to the place of beginning."Collection
Deed Collection