The photograph was sent to me by one of my friends. Who is it? What is he doing? Where is it? (Note the cemetery in the background, on the right!)
Monument Trivia
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New Castle, DE. William Penn stepped onto American soil and performed livery of seisin. "He took the key, thereof,…we did deliver unto him 1 turf with a twig upon it, a porringer with river water and soyle, in part of all.”
Jason! You got it. Very, very nice.
I mentioned a little bit about New Castle last summer, including a sign put up back in the 1930s about Penn's livery of seisin:
http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2011/08/property-law-in-monuments.html