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Excerpt from Philadelphia, Its Founding and Development, 1683-1908: Including the Complete Program of the Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of the City Government, October Fourth to Tenth
As'a result bf the Commission's work there was pre sented to the Mayor on January 15, 1908, a lengthy report embodying all the facts ascertained by the Commission. In this report the Commission stated that it had discovered proof that the year 1683 was the correct year of the founding of the city. It also presented ev'idence that in the same year there was a Seal of Philadelphia, together with a totally different Seal of Philadelphia County, bearing the same date, and the Provincial Seal of William Penn, also of the same year. The report of the Commission stated that as there was a separate Seal for Philadelphia, independent of the County Seal and that both were independent of the Seal of the Province, it indicated that there was a separate government for Philadel phia in 1683. The Commission also quoted in its report a letter of Penn to the'free' Society of Traders, published in London in 1683, and dated at Philadelphia the 16th of the Sixth Moneth call'd August, It was'in this letter that William Penn wrote: Philadelphia, the Expectation of those that are con cerned in this province, is at last laid out to the great Content of those here, that are any wayes Interested therein.
Further proof that Penn, the Founder, recognized the city of Philadelphia as early as 1683 was shown in that same year in a sale of lots within the city. The Commission found many records dated'as early as April 28, 1683, directing the surveyor-general to lay out lots in the city.
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