Old Rights Warrant to First Purchaser Humphrey Morrey

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Old Rights Warrant to First Purchaser Humphrey Morrey William Penn granted Old Rights Warrant D-69-63 on “23 Fifth Month [July] 1683” to Humphrey Morrey (circa 1650–1716), a prominent Quaker slave owner residing in New York, for 250 acres of land in Philadelphia County. As a First Purchaser, Morrey also received three Philadelphia town lots. Within two years, by August 1685, he had acquired several additional town lots and erected a large timber...
read more