Plantations in Early Pennsylvania
Within five years after settling on the banks of the Schuylkill River on their "patented" lands north of the Manatawny Creek, Mouns Jones and his neighbors petitioned [see record #MJTXT5] the Royal Governor in 1709 for a road for the convenient passage to and from their "plantations", indicating both their individually surveyed farmlands and the agrarian set
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