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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Society of Friends Know all men by these presents, that in consideration of.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00246.07 Author/Creator: Society of Friends Place Written: s.l. Type: Document Date: circa 1760-1770 Pagination: 1 broadside. 42 x 34 cm. Order a Copy

Printed certificate for conveying property to the Quakers, with entry spaces not filled in. Document formerly was adhered to back of a Penn broadside.

Penn, William, 1644-1718

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