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1865 Penrose Indenture for Graeme Park

1865 Penrose Indenture for Graeme Park Editor: Kevin Winters Published: January 28, 2013 Updated: January 16, 2026 photo of portion of 1865 Indenture between Abel Penrose and his brother and 3 sisters for Graeme ParkDonated to HPHA by Joseph H (Buck) Penrose Jr The 1865 Penrose Indenture records the sale of portions of Graeme Park by 4 of the children of William and Hannah Penrose to their brother Abel Penrose. Hannah Jarrett Penrose became the owner of Graeme Park (which at that time included what we now call the Penrose Strawbridge Farm) in...

Paul Indenture 1845

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Paul Indenture 1845 By: Kevin Winters Published: April 19, 2013 Updated: January 16, 2026 photo of 1845 Indenture between Paul family and Joseph Brown for land in Bucks County PA. Donated to HPHA by Joseph H (Buck) Penrose Jr This 1845 Indenture records the sale of land in Harrington, Bucks County by Lukens Paul and Hannah his wife and Joseph Paul of Horsham township to Joseph Brown, a Philadelphia merchant. This document was included as part of a generous donation by Mr. Joseph H. (Buck) Penrose Jr. HPHA has the Indenture recording this...

Samuel Carpenter Indenture 1718

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Samuel Carpenter Indenture 1718 By: Kevin Winters Published: April 19, 2013 Updated: January 16, 2026 Carpenter’s Indenture Samuel Carpenter purchased 5,088 acres 15 miles northwest of Philadelphia, Approximately 4300 acres included all that part of Horsham Township lying east of Horsham Road from the Moreland Township Line to Chestnut Land. The remainder lay in Bucks County.The latter portion extended from the county line along Mud Lane to Street Road, northwest on Street Road for about a mile and a quarter , and back to the county line, an area of about...

Establishment of Horsham Township

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The Establishment of Horsham Township Author: Charles Harper Smith Editor: Kevin Winters Published: August 8, 2025 This article is taken from the first chapter of The Settlement of Horsham Township by Charles Harper Smith. You can read about the early settlers here. Text in () by Mr Smith, text in [] by editor. Horsham Township Horsham is one of the original townships laid out, but not named, on the first published map of William Penn’s settlement in Pennsylvania. This map, known as Holmes’...

Holme’s Map of Pennsylvania

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Holm’s Map Author: Kevin Winters Published: November 4, 2025 Horsham is one of the original townships laid out, but not named, on the first published map of William Penn’s settlement in Pennsylvania. This map, commonly known as Holme’s Map, was printed during the year 1687 by Penn’s London land office, from reports submitted before the end of the previous year by his Land Commissioners, resident in Philadelphia, and by Thomas Holme, his Surveyor General for the Colony. Holme used a simple method of blocking out land in the east end of...

Horsham Historic Timeline

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Horsham Historic Timeline This timeline was started based on a timeline that appeared on the website www.Horsham1.com which is no longer available as of June 2014. We do not know who owned this site or who originally created this timeline. c15000? years agoNative Americans – Lenni Lenape – The Grandfathers c15241st Europeans Giovanni da Verrazzano interact with Lenape (Eden, D – 2007) c1600Henry Hudson explores the easr coast of the New World ((Eden, D ) 1600sDutch and Swedes begin to settle along East Coast ((Eden, D ) c1667English control the Lenape homelands...

Citations

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References Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, “Letter from Anthony Wayne”, 14 September 1777, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Unpublished Material Case 14, Box 16, Philadelphia, PA (Gentile p4) Gentile, Nancy Jacquelyn The Penrose Family at Graeme Park 1801-1920 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ©1984 ISBN 0-89271-031-4 (Available at Graeme Park Visitor Center) Ousterhout,Anne M. The Most Learned Woman in America: A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson , Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (November 24, 2003), ISBN-10: 0271023112, ISBN-13: 978-0271023113 (Available at Graeme Park Visitor...