Land: Indenture Peter Keen and others to Francis Read (1801): Philadelphia County, 
Pennsylvania

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City of Phila.   Deed Book #E.F. 6, pages 146-149   29 Jan 1801
(note:  Peter Young and John Lentz, separately, also bought some of the subdivided Keen 
property on this date -- recorded in the above Deed Book immediately before and after the 
pages for Francis Read’s purchase)

Peter Keen & others to Francis Read
	This Indenture made the twenty-ninth day of January in the year of our Lord 
one-thousand eight-hundred and one, between Peter Keen of Saint Paul’s Parrish in the 
district of Charleston in the state of South Carolina, Doctor of Physick, by his brother and 
attorney, Reynold Keen of Atrium Furnace in the State of New Jersey, merchant, legally 
constituted, the said Reynold Keen, in his right, Charles Evans of Reading in the County 
of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, attorney at law, and Mary, his wife, and Henrietta 
Keen and Sarah Keen, both of the City of Philadelphia, spinsters, of the one part, and 
Francis Read of Southwark in the County of Philadelphia, yeoman, of the other part.
	Whereas William Penn, Esq., by his patent or grant, dated the twenty-first day of 
the fifth month 1684, did inter alia grant and confirm unto Lasse Andreus, William Stiller, 
Andrew Bankson and John Matson a certain tract of land situate in the County of 
Philadelphia, by particular metes and bounds therein described, containing five-hundred 
and twenty-five acres together with the appurtenances, to hold to them, their heirs and 
assigns, forever as in and by the said recited patent, recorded in [Roll’s?] office in Patent 
Book A, vol. 1, page 57 et seq., more fully appears.  And whereas, by sundry mesne 
conveyances, descents or otherwise, part of the said patented tract became legally vested 
in Benjamin Bankson, son and heirs-at-law of Andrew Bankson, who, by his deed 
predated the third day of June 1724, did inter alia grant and confirm unto William Stiller, 
eldest son-at-law of John Stiller, late of Moyamensing in the said county, yeoman, 
deceased, and John Stiller, another of the sons of the said deceased John Stiller, they being 
devisees named in his last Will and Testament, a certain piece of land, by particular metes 
and bounds therein described, containing twenty-eight acres (part of the said patented 
tract) to hold to them, the said William Stiller and John Stiller, their heirs and assigns 
forever, as in and by the said recited deed poll, recorded in Book G, vol. 10, page [3? or 
253?] et seq., more fully appears.  And whereas the said William Stiller afterwards died of 
age, intestate and without issue, whereupon his estate of and in the said premises 
descended unto and legally vested to his brother, the said John Stiller as heirs-at-law.  And 
whereas the said John Stiller and Samuel Wheeler, by force and virtue of sundry good 
conveyances or assurances in the law, became lawfully seized in fee as tenants in common 
of and in, inter alia, a piece of land (also part of the said patented tract) containing 
forty-five acres and one-hundred and thirty-six perches, agreed upon a partition or division 
thereof between themselves, and by a certain indenture or deed of partition dated the 
twenty-third day of July 1741, he, the said Samuel Wheeler, did inter alia grant and 
confirm unto the said John Stiller, his heirs and assigns, a certain piece of land (part of the 
said forty-five acres and one-hundred and thirty-six perches), by particular metes and 
bounds therein described, containing seven acres with the appurtenances, to hold to him, 
the said John Stiller, his heirs and assigns forever, as in the said recited indenture or deed 
of partition more fully appears.  And whereas the said John Stiller, being so seized of the 
same premises, died, having first made and published his Testament and last Will in writing 
dated the seventeenth day of March anno domini 1745, and thereby devised all the rest, 
residue and remainder of his estate whatsoever, in which the said two pieces of land were 
included, to his daughter Christianna and the child wherewith his wife was then insuent, 
and to their heirs and assigns forever, to be equally divided between them, share and share 
alike, but if either of his said children should die under the age of twenty-one years 
without lawful issue, then the share of such so dying of and in the residue of his estate 
aforesaid should go to the survivor, his or her heirs and assigns forever, as in and by the 
said Will, duly proved and recorded in the Register’s Office at Philadelphia, more fully 
appears.  And whereas the said child was born but it soon afterwards died, whereby the 
whole residue of and in the said real estate vested in the said Christianna in fee, as 
survivor, agreeably to the said Will.  And whereas the said Christianna intermarried with 
Reynold Keen, of the said city, Esq., and by him had issue -- to wit the said Peter Keen, 
Reynold Keen, party hereto, Henrietta Keen, Mary Keen (now Mary Evans, wife of the 
said Charles Evans), Christianna Keen and Sarah Keen -- and afterwards died under 
coverture, whereby her estate of and in the said premises descended, according to the then 
existing laws of Pennsylvania made for the distribution of intestate estates, to her said 
children in equal shares, the said Peter, as eldest son, being entitled to two shares thereof.  
And whereas the said Peter Keen, by his Deed Poll dated the fifth day of December 1800, 
did give, grant and release to his brother, the said Reynold Keen, and sisters Henrietta 
Keen, Mary Evans, Christianna Keen and Sarah Keen, their heirs and assigns forever, as 
tenants in common, all his right of primogeniture or eldership of and in all lands whereof 
his mother, the said Christianna Keen, died seized or possessed of in her own right situate 
in Moyamensing aforesaid, and whereof he, the said Peter Keen, as her eldest son, was by 
law entitled to two shares thereof, so that he, the said Peter, and his said brother and 
sisters and their heirs, as tenants in common, would equally divide and share between them 
the land aforesaid, as in and by the said recited Deed Poll recorded in Deed Book No. 6, 
page 10 et seq., more fully appears.  And whereas the said Christianna Keen, daughter of 
the said Reynold and Christianna, being so seized of her share of and in the said premises, 
lately died, having first made and published her Testament and last Will in writing, dated 
the thirteenth day of November, one-thousand eight-hundred, and thereby all her estate 
whatsoever in the world, in which her part and share of and in the said premises is 
included, to her three sisters, the said Henrietta, Mary and Sarah, in fee as tenants in 
common, as in and by the said Will, duly proved and recorded in the Register’s Office at 
Reading, more fully appears.  And whereas the said Peter Keen,  and by a certain 
indenture of writing or letter of attorney, dated the fifth day of December, one-thousand 
eight-hundred, did constitute and appoint his brother, the said Reynold Keen, his lawful 
attorney for him and in his name, to grant, bargain and sell and absolutely dispose of to 
any person or persons whatsoever, all and every of these messuages, lands, tenements and 
real estate whatsoever situate, lying and being in any part of the state of Pennsylvania for 
the best and greatest price or prices he could get or obtain for the same, and for him and in 
his name to sign, seal, deliver, execute and acknowledge in due form of law all such deed 
or deeds, conveyances and assurances which might be requisite and necessary to vest in 
the purchaser or purchasers thereof a good and sufficient title or titles in fee simple, and 
for him and in his name to receive the consideration monies and to give sufficient receipts 
and discharges for the same, as in and by the said recited letter of attorney, recorded in 
Letter of Attorney Book E.F. No. 2, page 43 et seq., more fully appears
	Now this indenture:  Witnesseth that the said Peter Keen, Reynold Keen, Charles 
Evans and Mary, his wife, Henrietta Keen and Sarah Keen, for and in consideration of the 
sum of one-thousand and seven-hundred and forty-nine dollars and forty-eight cents lawful 
silver money of the United States of America, to them in their respective shares, paid by 
the said Francis Read at the time of the execution hereof, the receipt whereof is hereby 
acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, released and confirmed and by these 
presents do, and each and every of them doth, grant, bargain, sell, release and confirm 
unto the said Francis Read, his heirs and assigns, all that certain tract or piece of land (part 
of the said two above-described tracts) situate in Moyamensing Township aforesaid, 
bounded and described agreeable to a resurvey thereof, now made, as follows.  To wit -- 
beginning at a post standing by the side of the old Moyamensing Road at a corner of land 
sold to Peter Young, thence extending by the said road north fourteen degrees west 
sixty-seven perches to a corner at the intersection of the said road with a lane dividing this 
from land of Joshua Powell, thence extending by the said land north sixty-eight degrees 
and three-quarters east nineteen perches to a corner of land belonging to Hannah Harvey, 
thence partly by the same and partly by land belonging to Samuel Wheeler, Esq., south 
twenty-four degrees and three-quarters east twenty-five perches to a corner, thence by 
land of the said Samuel Wheeler north seventy-one degrees and one-quarter east two 
perches and fifty-five hundredths parts of a perch to a corner, and south eighteen degrees 
and three-quarters east forty-five perches to a corner of land sold to the said Peter Young, 
thence by the same south seventy-six degrees west twenty-nine perches and six-tenths of a 
perch to the place of beginning, containing ten acres and one-hundred and twenty-eight 
perches, together with all and singular the ways, roads, waters, water courses, rights, 
liberties, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever, unto the said 
hereby-granted premises belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion, 
remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof, and also all the estate right, title interest, and 
property claim and demand whatsoever of them, the said Peter Keen, Reynold Keen, 
Charles Evans and Mary, his wife, Henrietta Keen and Sarah Keen and of such and any of 
them in law or equity, of, into, and out of the same, and every part thereof, to have and to 
hold the said last-described tract or piece of land, hereditament and premises hereby 
granted with the appurtenances, unto the said Francis Read, his heirs and assigns, to the 
only proper use and behoof of the said Francis Read, his heirs and assigns forever.  And 
the said party of the first part of this indenture, for himself, his heirs, executors and 
administrators, severally and not jointly, do covenant, promise and agree to and with the 
said Francis Read, his heirs and assigns, by these presents that they, the said parties of the 
first part, and their heirs respectively, each one his and her own part and share of and in all 
and singular the said last-described tract of piece of land, hereditaments and premises 
hereby granted, with the appurtenances, to the said Francis Read, his heirs and assigns, 
against them, the said Peter Keen, Reynold Keen, Charles Evans and Mary, his wife, 
Henrietta Keen and Sarah Keen and their heirs respectively, and against all and every other 
person or persons whatsoever lawfully claiming or [__claim?] by, from, or under him, her, 
them or any or either of them, or by, from or under any of the former owners thereof, shall 
and will warrant and forever defend by these presents.
	In witness whereof, the said parties have hereunto interchangeably set their hands 
and seals, dated the day and year first above written.
/s/ Peter Keen, by his attorney Reynold Keen, and /s/ also in his own right
/s/ Charles Evans
/s/ Mary Evans
/s/ Henrietta Keen
/s/ Sarah Keen
	Sealed and delivered in the presence of us, Abraham Shoemaker and Daniel Addis, 
the twenty-ninth day of January anno domini 1801.

	Before me, Edward Shippen, Esquire, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 
Pennsylvania, came the above-named Reynold Keen and acknowledged the above-written 
indenture to be, as well the act and deed of his constituent, the above-named Peter Keen, 
as his own act and deed and desired the same may be recorded as such.  Also came the 
above-named Charles Evans and Mary, his wife, Henrietta Keen and Sarah Keen and 
severally acknowledged the above indenture to be their, and each of their, act and deed 
and desired the same may be recorded as such.  The said Mary, being of full age and by 
me privately examined, apart from her said husband, declared that she executed the said 
indenture voluntarily and of her own free will and accord, without any coercion or 
compulsion of her said husband, and the full contents thereof by me first made known to 
her.  Witness my hand and seal the day and year aforesaid.
/s/ Edward Shippen

	Received, the day of the date of the written indenture, of the within-named Francis 
Read, the sum of one-thousand seven-hundred and forty-nine dollars and seventy-eight 
cents, being the full consideration money within mentioned. We say received each our own 
parts:  Peter Keen, by his attorney Reynold Keen, and also in his own right, Charles 
Evans, Henrietta Keen, Sarah Keen.
Witnesses at signing:  Abraham Shoemaker, Daniel Addis.