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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.”
Posted by: Jason Mazzone | December 14, 2011 at 08:03 PM
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
Posted by: Alfred Brophy | December 14, 2011 at 08:07 PM