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Colonial Delaware
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Advertisement 1736
Petition to obtain a
charter of incorporation for the city of Willingtown (Wilmington)
Delaware and a list of those who signed it for your Delaware ancestors
genealogy search.
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"The market house on Fourth street
being completed, the parties concerned in its support published the
following advertisement in manuscript hand bills:
Advertisement
Whereas, it is thought very necessary that
there should be particular days appointed and agreed to, on which days the
country people may bring to town their victualing, which they are minded
to sell, and when the inhabitants of this town may furnish themseves with
what they think convenient,
Public Notice therefore is hereby given to
all concerned, that it is agreed, that for the future, after the
seventeenth day of this instant July, there may be a public sale of all
sorts of vitualing kept at the Market-house built in Willingtown on the
fourth and seventh days, commonly called Wednesday and Saturday, in every
week, hereafter, to begin about eight of the clock in the morning on the
said days, to which publication we the inhabitants of Willingtown have set
our hands.
Willingtown the 16th of July, Anno.Dom.
1736
Signed,
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Andrew Justus,
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Edward Tatnall,
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Samuel Milner,
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William Shipley,
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Samuel Pennock,
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Dan Beeby,
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Cha. Empson,
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Griffith Minshall,
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James Milner,
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Tho. Broom,
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Tho. Peters,
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Joshua Way,
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John Pearce,
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Thos. Webb,
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Tho. Willing.
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Samuel Hooton,
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Jas. Milner,
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Thos. Downing,
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Robert Read,
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Daniel Calvert,
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William Levis,
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John Leeds,
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James Garrett,
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Robert Lewis.
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William Atherton,
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Joseph Way,
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David Ferris.
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Gouldsmith E. Folwell,
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John Smith,
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Source: A History of
the Original Settlements on The Delaware, Benjamin Ferris, Wilson &
Herald, 107 Market Street, Wilmington, 1846, page 208.
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