Franklin, Benjamin, printerPennsylvania General Loan Office. Know All Men by these Presents. … [Philadelphia: Printed by Benjamin Franklin 1729] Printed document form (320 x 204 mm), being a mortgage bond, accomplished in a clerical hand, 15 October 1729, signed and sealed by Joseph Drinker, countersigned by witnesses Charles Brockden and William Parker, docketed on verso; lightly browned, marginal dampstain. This mortgage bond—the usual form signed by Pennsylvanians borrowing mortgage money from the General Loan Office—is a very early Franklin imprint, produced within the first year of the establishment of his Philadelphia printing office. This example of the form records that Joseph Drinker has borrowed £160 at 5% from the trustees of the Pennsylvania General Loan Office. The mortgage was printed with a conjugate warrant by attorney form, but the two documents are most frequently met with individually, as noted by Miller. The two witnesses were both associated with Franklin. Charles Brockden was the Recorder of Deed for Philadelphia County and Clerk of the General Loan Office; he likely dealt with Franklin about the printing of these forms. William Parsons was Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania and was a member of the "Junto," a discussion club founded by Franklin. Parsons was a signer of the original charter of the Library Company of Philadelphia. REFERENCEMiller 10; World of Benjamin Franklin 9
Franklin, Benjamin, printerPennsylvania General Loan Office. Know All Men by these Presents. … [Philadelphia: Printed by Benjamin Franklin 1729] Printed document form (320 x 204 mm), being a mortgage bond, accomplished in a clerical hand, 15 October 1729, signed and sealed by Joseph Drinker, countersigned by witnesses Charles Brockden and William Parker, docketed on verso; lightly browned, marginal dampstain. This mortgage bond—the usual form signed by Pennsylvanians borrowing mortgage money from the General Loan Office—is a very early Franklin imprint, produced within the first year of the establishment of his Philadelphia printing office. This example of the form records that Joseph Drinker has borrowed £160 at 5% from the trustees of the Pennsylvania General Loan Office. The mortgage was printed with a conjugate warrant by attorney form, but the two documents are most frequently met with individually, as noted by Miller. The two witnesses were both associated with Franklin. Charles Brockden was the Recorder of Deed for Philadelphia County and Clerk of the General Loan Office; he likely dealt with Franklin about the printing of these forms. William Parsons was Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania and was a member of the "Junto," a discussion club founded by Franklin. Parsons was a signer of the original charter of the Library Company of Philadelphia. REFERENCEMiller 10; World of Benjamin Franklin 9
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