DIRECTION TO SUCH PERSONS AS ARE INCLINED TO AMERICA, More Especially Those Related to the Province of Pennsylvania.
Attributed to William Penn, 1682 Source: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, volume IV.
The way the Poorer sort may be transported, with advantage to the Rich that help them, is thus;
Say I have 5000 Acres, I will settle Ten Families upon them, in way of Village, and build each an house, an out-house for Cattle, furnish every Family with Stock; as four Cows, two Sows, a couple of Mares, and a yoke of Oxen, with a Town Horse, Bull and Boar; I find them with Tools, and give each their first Ground-seed. They shall continue Seven Years, or more, as we agree, at half encrease, being bound to leave the Houses in repair and a Garden and Orchard, I paying for the Trees, and at least twenty-Acres of Land, within Fence, and improved to corn and grass: The charge will come to about sixty pounds English for each Family: At the seven years end, the Improvement Will be worth, as things go now, £102. besides the value of the encrease of the Stock, which may be near as much more, allowing for casualties; especially, if the People are honest and careful, or a man be upon the spot himself, or have an Overseer sometimes to inspect them. The charge in the whole is £832. And the value of the stock and improvements £2400.
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