Handwritten mortgage of tract in Fawn Township, York Co., Pa.
1776. 1 handwritten document of 4 pages (39 x 25 cm.), folded. On 12 Dec. 1776 William Rowan of Fawn Township, York Co., Pa., yeoman mortgaged 245 acres in Fawn Township to Beulah Paschall of the city of Philadelphia, spinster, for 300 pounds of Pennsylvania due by 12 Dec. 1783, with interest paid yearly. Signed by William Rowan; witnesses Peter Miller and Abraham Shoemaker; Philadelphia Supreme Court Justice Thomas Willing; and York County Recorder Samuel Johnston. Embossed paper stamp of Pennsylvania. The mortgagee was Beulah Paschall (1732-1793), a Philadelphia Quaker and owner of Cedar Grove. Thomas Willing (1731-1821) was a highly successful merchant and real estate developer, as well as a Philadelphia Supreme Court Justice from 1767 to 1776. He served as the first president of both the Bank of North America and the Bank of the United States and supported the American Revolution. York County Recorder Samuel Johnston, on the other hand, had come to York County from England as an official representative of the Penn family. He held a variety of county offices at various times in addition to that of recorder of deeds: clerk of courts, prothonotary, and register of wills. When he refused to take the oaths of allegiance to Pennsylvania during the Revolution he had to relinquish all public offices. However, he did not opposed the Revolution. Two of his sons-in-law served as colonels in the American militia, and two of his sons were privates. By 1786 Johnston lived in Maryland and was admitted as an attorny in Baltimore County. In Near Fine- Condition: just starting to separate along folds; minor soiling; otherwise, bright and solid. Near Fine -. Item #008782
Price: $250.00