...instant is read, praying in consideration of debts due to him or his father from the Crown to grant him Letters Patents for a Tract of land in America lying...the East bounded with De la Ware River on the west limited as Maryland and northward to extend as far as plantable, Whereupon Mr Penn is called in and...

...possession, that Penn, in 1680 asked from the Crown, in payment of the debt due his father's estate, a tract of land in America, "lying north of Maryland, on the east bounded with the Delaware, on the west limited as Maryland is, and northward to extend as far as plantable, which...