Charter to William Penn, and laws of the province of Pennsylvania, passed between the years 1682 and 1700, preceded by Duke of York's laws in force from the year 1676 to the year 1682, with an Appendix containing laws relating to the organization of the provincial courts and historical matter.
Pub. under the direction of John Blair Linn, secretary of the commonwealth. Comp. and ed. by Staughton George, Benjamin M. Nead, Thomas McCamant.

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Corporate Author

Pennsylvania.

Related Names

McCamant, Thomas, 1840-
Nead, Benjamin Matthias, 1847-1923.
George, Staughton.
Pennsylvania. Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Great Britain.
Pennsylvania.

Language(s)

English

Published

Harrisburg, L.S. Hart, state printer, 1879.

Subjects

Pennsylvania. > Pennsylvania. / Courts.
Law > Law / Pennsylvania.
New Sweden > New Sweden / History.
Pennsylvania > Pennsylvania / History > Pennsylvania / History / Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Note

Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn., Research Publications, [1977]. 1 reel. 35mm. (Published American colonial records, CR 46)
In pocket of volume is a "Fac-simile of the charter granted by Charles the Second to William Penn for the 'province of Pensilvania' engraved from the original on file in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth."

Physical Description

iv, 614 p. front. (port.) illus., facsims. (part fold.) 25 cm.

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