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Mouns Jones, Jonas Nilsson will & estate inventory transcript (c.1693)

Archives 1000.01.117

Jonas Nilsson's estate inventory & will

Mouns Jones · 2013 & c.1693

Digital copy of a two-page typewritten transcript of the Jonas Nilsson's (father of Mouns Jones) estate inventory and will (abbreviated), c.1693. Of particular note is the will, in which Jonas leaves 230 acres of land to son Jonathan, 94 acres to son Jonas, 100 acres to Mouns, 70 acres to Nils, and 100 acres to Andrew. Jonas also bequeaths 1 shilling ea

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Morlatton Village, transcript of Amity Township Petition, image #1 (1744)

Archives 1003.01.061

Transcript of 1744 Petition to create Amity Townwship and survey map; also plot plan and survey “draught” of Swedes’ Tract

Morlatton · 03/03/1744; plot plans undated

Series of six digital images: a transcript of the second Petition [the first one was described as “lost”] to establish Amity Township, the accompanying survey drawing. Image #3 and #4 show the original approximately 10,000 acre Penn Grant of the “Swedes Tract” to the Swedish Lutheran Pastor Andreas Rudman, to be divided into parcels for conveyance [by “warra

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