Thomas Holme, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 200)

by Irma Corcoran

The odyssey of Thomas Holme, William Penn's first surveyor general, began when Holme enrolled in the war against Charles I and proceeded through England, and, finally, to William Penn's Province of PA. He was a captain in Cromwell's army, a Quaker minister, author, and administrator, and landholder and merchant. It was from this life that William Penn drafted him to be the first surveyor general of his province. There he laid out the city of Phila.,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871692007
• ISBN13: 9780871692009
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 317 Pages