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John Penn ("the American")

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signed an order creating a commission of three or more individuals they appointed that were responsible for "running, marking, and laying out" of any boundary between the Province of Pennsylvania and the colonial
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Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Record of Births, Deaths, and Burials, 1688–1826. (2014) Images of manuscript.
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Penn returned to the Province of Pennsylvania in September 1734 and attended the meetings of the
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Rawle, William Brooke (1899). "The General Title of the Penn Family to Pennsylvania".
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with Maryland. The ultimate resolution of this dispute was the surveying of the
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in which over a million acres of in the colonial areas of present-day
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following American independence obtained in victory in the
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Pennsylvania, Colonial and Federal: A History, 1608–1903
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John Penn was the eldest son of the colony's founder,
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On May 12, 1732, as proprietors of the colonial-era
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John Penn (disambiguation)
2nd Chief Proprietor of Pennsylvania
William Penn
Thomas Penn
Slate Roof House
Philadelphia
Province of Pennsylvania
British America
Hitcham
Buckinghamshire
Province of Pennsylvania
Province of Pennsylvania
U.S. state
Pennsylvania
American Revolutionary War
William Penn
Hannah Callowhill Penn
Slate Roof House
Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Bristol, England
Province of Pennsylvania
Province of Pennsylvania
Province of Pennsylvania
Thirteen Colonies
British America
Thomas Penn
Richard Penn
Province of Maryland
Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore

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