 | Australia. Parliament. Joint Library Committee - Australia - 1923 - 976 pages
...attract adventurers to the new colony. It was agreed that " a quantity of laud or ground plot should be laid out for a large town or city in the most convenient...place upon the river for health and navigation," and that every purchaser of five hundred acres in the country should be granted t«n acres in such town.... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - Pennsylvania - 1926 - 614 pages
...soon as it pleaseth God that the above persons arrive there, a certain quantity of land or ground plat shall be laid out for a large town or city, in the...convenient place upon the river for health and navigation," etc. On October 19, 1681, Penn appointed three commissioners, who were to go to Pennsylvania, where... | |
 | Jean R. Soderlund - History - 1983 - 436 pages
...as it pleases God that the abovesaid persons arrive there, a certain quantity of land or ground plot shall be laid out for a large town or city in the...much land therein, as will answer to the proportion he has bought or taken up upon rent.2 But it is to be noted that the surveyors shall consider what... | |
 | John William Reps - Architecture - 1965 - 590 pages
...God ... a certain quantity of land or ground plat shall be laid out for a large town or city . . . and every purchaser and adventurer shall, by lot,...the proportion which he hath bought or taken up upon rent."7 With these words, published in July 1681, William Penn announced the beginning of English settlement... | |
 | John L. Cotter, Daniel G. Roberts, Michael Parrington - Archaeology and history - 1992 - 563 pages
...dreams offered a sharp contrast to the typical, crowded English city. It was to occupv 10.000 acres "in the most convenient place upon the river for health and navigation" (Soderlund et al. 1983:72), and large house lots, some with 800 feet of river frontage and 100 acres... | |
 | John Smith Futhey, J. Smith Futhey, Gilbert Cope - Chester County (Pa.) - 1995 - 463 pages
...pleaseth God, that the above said persons arrive there, a certain quantity of land, or ground plat, shall be laid out for a large town or city, in the...the surveyors shall consider what roads or highways will be necessary to the cities, towns or through the lands. Great roads from city to city, not to... | |
 | 108 pages
...terms of land purchase, "The Conditions and Concessions of July 1681," the proprietor would lay out "a large town or city, in the most convenient place upon the [Delaware] River for health and navigation." The city, which was advertised as a future entrepot of... | |
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That so soon as it pleaseth'God that the abovesaid persons arrive there, a certain quantity of land, or ground plat, shall be laid out, for a large town or city, in the most convenient place, upon the river, for health and navigation; and every purchaser... 
