Residence Location of Cornelius Bom c.1684 Philadelphia

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1684 map showing the layout of a portion of Philadelphia that includes the residence of our ancestor, Cornelius Bom, whose daughter, Christian, married Edmund Du Chastel. Edmund and Christian then resided on Front St. next to Anthony Morris, who became her step-father after Cornelius died in 1689.

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1684 Map of Philadephia, Pennsylvania

This 1684 map illustrates the planned layout of Philadelphia, 

the first planned town in the county.

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Philadelphia Deed Book Indices

Tracing Philadelphia Property Ownership

Using On-line Deed Records

- an online guide for locating those little treasures found in the Philadelphia Deed Book Indices 

My find for the day:

1692 D E GRANTEE2/070-18/000017

In 1692, Edmund Du Castell purchased a lot from Anthony Morris.

"This lot of ground purchased from Joseph Wood, extended from Front Street to Second Street, being 396 feet in length.  It was disposed of by Anthony Morris in two portions.  The upper (northern) portion, measuring 20 feet in width, he sold to Alexander Beardsley in 1688, and the remainder, 31 feet in width he sold to Edmund Du Castell in 1692.  Edmund Du Castell in the same year, re-conveyed to Anthony Morris the western half of the strip, measuring 30 feet 9 inches in width and 196 feet in length "to run with a straight line cross from the said Morris his back garden fence.""
(The Morris family of Philadelphia, descendants of Anthony Morris, by Robert C. Moon. Published 1898)

Services requested at Christ Church, Philadelphia

Abstract of Wills of Philadelphia County:

(Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

, Volume 3)