1776 Edmund Physick Signed Pennsylvania Quit-Rent Receipt — Penn Proprietary Land
Exceptional Revolutionary-Era Pennsylvania Land Document — Signed by Edmund Physick
An important and highly desirable March 13, 1776 Pennsylvania land receipt, documenting the payment of four years of quit-rent on 83½ acres of land in Providence Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
The receipt records payment by George Miller in the current money of Pennsylvania and states that the quit-rent was paid in full through March 1, 1776. The document is personally signed by Edmund Physick, one of Pennsylvania's important colonial-era officials and agents associated with the Penn family proprietors.
Physick was a prominent Philadelphia businessman who served as Receiver-General and quit-rent collector for Pennsylvania's proprietary government. He later became a confidential estate agent for the Penn family, managing their extensive Pennsylvania properties. Contemporary archival collections contain numerous Physick land receipts, warrants, and financial records from this period.
This document is especially desirable because of its March 1776 date, placing it just months before the Declaration of Independence and the end of Pennsylvania's proprietary colonial government. It provides a tangible record of the land and financial system that existed in Pennsylvania on the eve of American independence.
The receipt is printed on period paper with extensive manuscript additions and bears the bold original signature of Edmund Physick. The reverse retains additional manuscript impressions and notations.
Document: Pennsylvania quit-rent receipt
Date: March 13, 1776
Place: Chester, Pennsylvania
Land: 83½ acres
Location: Providence Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Payer: George Miller
Signed by: Edmund Physick
Subject: Quit-rent paid to the Pennsylvania proprietors
Period: Revolutionary War / Colonial America
Condition: Very good overall for an 18th-century financial document, with expected folds, toning, edge wear, and manuscript aging.
An exceptional piece of Revolutionary-era Pennsylvania Americana, combining an original 1776 land transaction with the autograph of an important official connected to the Penn proprietary estate.
Suggested Retail Price: $895
Exceptional Revolutionary-Era Pennsylvania Land Document — Signed by Edmund Physick
An important and highly desirable March 13, 1776 Pennsylvania land receipt, documenting the payment of four years of quit-rent on 83½ acres of land in Providence Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
The receipt records payment by George Miller in the current money of Pennsylvania and states that the quit-rent was paid in full through March 1, 1776. The document is personally signed by Edmund Physick, one of Pennsylvania's important colonial-era officials and agents associated with the Penn family proprietors.
Physick was a prominent Philadelphia businessman who served as Receiver-General and quit-rent collector for Pennsylvania's proprietary government. He later became a confidential estate agent for the Penn family, managing their extensive Pennsylvania properties. Contemporary archival collections contain numerous Physick land receipts, warrants, and financial records from this period.
This document is especially desirable because of its March 1776 date, placing it just months before the Declaration of Independence and the end of Pennsylvania's proprietary colonial government. It provides a tangible record of the land and financial system that existed in Pennsylvania on the eve of American independence.
The receipt is printed on period paper with extensive manuscript additions and bears the bold original signature of Edmund Physick. The reverse retains additional manuscript impressions and notations.
Document: Pennsylvania quit-rent receipt
Date: March 13, 1776
Place: Chester, Pennsylvania
Land: 83½ acres
Location: Providence Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Payer: George Miller
Signed by: Edmund Physick
Subject: Quit-rent paid to the Pennsylvania proprietors
Period: Revolutionary War / Colonial America
Condition: Very good overall for an 18th-century financial document, with expected folds, toning, edge wear, and manuscript aging.
An exceptional piece of Revolutionary-era Pennsylvania Americana, combining an original 1776 land transaction with the autograph of an important official connected to the Penn proprietary estate.
Suggested Retail Price: $895
