Penn, William, Jr. | Witnessing the last will and testament of John Graham

Penn, William, Jr.

Document signed ("WM Penn") as a witness to the last will and testament of John Graham

Manuscript document, 1 page (300 x 191 mm) on a bifolium, written in a neat clerical hand, no place, 14 October 1704, also signed by John Graham (and with his red wax seal) and by witnesses James Reignor and William Glen Cross, verso of the will bears the attestation of Lord Cornbury and the letters of administration granted to Thomas Byerly, docketed on verso of integral leaf; silked, lightly browned, a few minor chips, including to first letter of Penn's signature.

John Graham, who identified himself as a "Merchant at present at the City of New-York, son of Sir Richard Graham of Norton Coyners in Yorkshire," bequeathed to Thomas Byerly, Great Britain's Collector and Receiver-General for the province of New York, all of his goods and estate in America, and to John Willson, Postmaster in Darlington, all of his property in England. This document was executed just ten months after Penn Jr. arrived in his father's eponymous colony.