Charter incorporating the Trustees of the Academy and Charitable School in the Province of Pennsylvania

Creator:

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (College, Academy and Charitable School) (creator)

Description:

Charter incorporating the Trustees of the Academy and Charitable School in the province of Pa. Recites a brief history of the school beginning with the subscriptions of “several benevolent and charitable persons” for “erecting, establishing, and maintaining an academy…as well to instruct youth for reward, as poor children whose indigent and helpless circumstances demand the charity of the opulent part of mankind.” Signed by James Hamilton, Lieutenant-Governor, as witness. PENN, THOMAS and RICHARD PENN. July 13, 1753. Trustees of the Academy and Charitable School in the province of Pa. (Thomas Lawrence, William Allen, John Inglis, Tench Francis, William Masters, Lloyd Zachary, Samuel McCall, Jr., Joseph Turner, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Leech, William Shippen, Robert Strettell, Philip Syng, Charles Willing, Phineas Bond, Richard Peters, Abraham Taylor, Thomas Bond, Joshua Maddox, William Plumsted, Thomas White, William Coleman, Isaac Norris, and Thomas Cadwalader.) DS, paper seal with Penn arms.

Language:

English

Geographic Subject:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

UPA 3. Archives General Collection of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1820. Constitutions and Charter. Document/item number: 1117. See full finding at: https://archives.upenn.edu/collections/finding-aid/upa3pre1820

Physical Location:

UPA3 D1117

Collection:

William Smith Papers (University Archives); Penn in the Age of Franklin (University of Pennsylvania)