Wayne, Anthony:

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[AUTOGRAPH LAND SURVEY, DRAWN AND SIGNED BY ANTHONY WAYNE, BEING A "DRAUGHT OF THE TOWNSHIP OF NEWTOWN TAKEN FROM COLN. HOLMES'S [sic] MAP OF THE PROVINCE OF ... A colonial American land survey of Newtown, Easttown, and Radnor Townships, Pennsylvania, executed and signed by Anthony Wayne during his early career as a land surveyor. Working from Thomas Holme's 1681 map of Pennsylvania, Wayne's map is bordered on the west by Crum Creek, with Darby Creek (unnamed) flowing through the center of the map. Newtown is situated center left and is bordered on the east by Radnor Township, and on the north by Easttown Township and two other properties owned by James Claypoole, William Wood, and William Sharlow. Wayne notes the names of the owners of eight Newtown parcels: Andrew Robinson, Michael Blunston, Luke Han[c]k, Daniel Hough, et al.; five other parcels are numbered. Wayne's bold signature is at the lower right of the leaf.These townships were part of the larger Welsh Tract, a substantial portion of land in Pennsylvania granted by William Penn to Welsh Quakers to be a separate county, where residents could do business in Welsh and whose local government would use Welsh in regular proceedings. Although the boundaries were established in 1687, by the 1690s much of the land had already been partitioned to different counties, despite appeals from the Welsh settlers. The tract never achieved self-government, though many of the original Welsh settlers became quite prominent in the area.

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