The Manor of Steyning - PLAQUE

The Manor of Steyning - PLAQUE is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Chester County, dedicated 1926.

Chester County · dedicated 1926 · W Baltimore Pike (SR 3046) southbound, .5 mile W of Kennett Square

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The Manor of Steyning of 15,500 acres patented by William Penn for "fatherly love" and one beaver skin yearly to his daughter Laetitia Penn at Philadelphia, October 23, 1701 is here marked on its western line adjoining a tract of 14,500 acres which the proprietor patented to his son WILLIAM PENN, JUNIOR May 24, 1706

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The Manor of Steyning - PLAQUE

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