Deed from Israel and Mary Pemberton Discharging
Ground Rent
Copy of abstract: Department of Records, Recorder of Deeds, City of
Philadelphia
<December 13, 1775: Israel Pemberton, merchant of Philadelphia,
and his wife Mary, in consideration of £350 on lawful Pennsylvania
money, release and confirm to Benjamin Franklin the
annual ground rent of fifteen Spanish pistoles, or the equivalent
in Pennsylvania currency, due from James Pearson to Pemberton
by deed of sale of June 6, 1760, for a lot on the south side of
Jones’s Alley, commonly called Pewter Platter Alley, in Philadelphia,
thirty-eight feet in breadth and sixty feet in depth,
bounded on the east by a house and lot of the late Thomas Ryles,
on the south by lots of Thomas Hyne and John Lynn, on the west
by a house lately owned by Robert Grace, and on the north by the
alley. The Pembertons warrant Franklin’s title and their own
power to convey it. Signed by them, witnessed by Jno. Ord and
W.P. Gibbs, and acknowledged the same day before Jno. Ord,
justice of the peace. Recorded May 25, 1776.>
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