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Show Penn Liked Solid Houses, Deed Shows SUNBURY, PA. William Penn, Pennsylvania's solid Quaker founder, found-er, apparently was no advocate of temporary emergency housing. A deed for one of the first land grants made by the pioneer Penn family in this community, dated January, ' 1773, specified among its numerous provisions that a "substantial dwelling with brick or stone chim-ey, chim-ey, 25 feet square" must be built within three years of the date the deed was executed. Frederick Nagle of Berks county, who rented the land for from $5 to $10 a year in present money, complied com-plied with the spirit of the deed. He tjuilt a log home so substantial that it lasted and was used as a dwelling dwell-ing piace until this year. Miss Katherine Reed, a school teacher who now owns the property, has the original parchment of the gran- made by Penn's heirs. |