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

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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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Thomas Holmes’ map of Pennsylvania (c.1688)

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Thomas Holme’s “Map of the Improved Part of Pennsylvania in America”, showing the land of “Mouns Johnson” west of the Schuylkill River

Mouns Jones · 1687

c. 1688 Thomas Holme’s map of Pennsylvania, showing the land of “Mouns Johnson” (Mouns Jones) west of the Schuylkill River, in Kingsessing, near Cobb’s Creek. Under his father Jonas Nilsson’s Will of 1693, Mouns inherited an additional 100 acres [see record MJTX1]. This map is held in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, a

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