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Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 880

Pennsylvania History; Old Northumberland County; Philadelphia. A quintet of Land Deeds to Samuel Wallis, 1785. All one and one-third pages on folio "Printed By Joseph Crukshank". Each deed is for four hundred acres of land in Northumberland County.; a small diamond-shaped paper seal by the each seller's signature: Samuel White, Paul McFadden, George Coursey, Samuel Scott, and Samuel Craft. Born of Quaker origin in Harford Co., Md., Samuel Wallis moved to Philadelphia when "he was of age." In 1768, he began to acquire more than 7,000 acres of land, becoming one of the area's main land speculators. According to John Meginness, author of "Otzinachsen: A History of the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna" (1889), so vast was Wallis' "business, and so great his speculations that at one time he owned or controlled nearly every acre of ground lying along the [Susquehanna] River except a few tracts…" Wallis married Lydia Hollingsworth of Philadelphia in 1770, and the couple had six children. After a visit to North Carolina in 1798, Wallis fell ill from yellow fever and died in Philadelphia; also Land Deed between Adam Meloher and Thomas Denton, July 9, 1784. For four acres of land in Northumberland County. One and one-third page, folio. Typical folds, and age toning, the Wallis' with minor pencil notation in upper left corner. Fine-Fine+. [6]

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