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Collection Scope and Content Summary
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Land grant to William Bingham, Esq., for property in Lycoming County from Thomas Mifflin, Governor of Pennsylvania
Dates: 1796
Collection number: MS-M047
Collection Size:
0.3 linear feet
(1 oversize folder)
Repository:
University of California, Irvine. Library.
Special Collections and Archives.
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Abstract: Collection comprises one land document to William Bingham, Esq., for property in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, dated 17 May
1796, and signed by Thomas Mifflin, Governor of Pennsylvania.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
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Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and University Archives.
Preferred Citation
Land grant to William Bingham, Esq., for property in Lycoming County from Thomas Mifflin, Governor of Pennsylvania. MS-M047.
Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Andrew Kosic, 1995.
Processing Information
Processed by Andre Ambrus and description written by Ryan Hildebrand, 2005.
Biography
William Bingham was born on April 8, 1752 in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1768
and went on to become a founder and director of the Pennsylvania Bank (later known as the Bank of North America). Bingham
was also a trustee of Dickinson College and president of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company. He served in the
Pennsylvania Assembly, and was a United States Senator from 1795 to 1801. He owned land in Maine, New York, and Pennsylvania.
Bingham died February 6, 1804 in Bath, England.
Thomas Mifflin was born in Philadelphia in 1744. He was a member of the first United States Congress in 1774, was appointed
Quartermaster General of the Continental Army in August, 1775, and was also the first governor of Pennsylvania. Mifflin was
a member of the constitutional convention and a signer of the United States Constitution. He died at Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
January 20, 1800.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Collection comprises one land document to William Bingham, Esq., for property in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, dated 17 May
1796, and signed by Thomas Mifflin, Governor of Pennsylvania.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Land grants--Pennsylvania--Archives.
Pennsylvania--History--Archives.
Genres and Forms of Material
Seals--Pennsylvania--18th century.
Index Terms Related to this Collection
Bingham, William, 1752-1804.
Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800.
Kosic, Andrew, former owner.
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