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(Pennsylvania 18th Century Newspaper.) General Aurora Advertiser. Bristol, Pennsylvania: Heirs of Benj. Franklin Bache, Friday, October 4, 1799. 4pp., folio; slightly browned. Includes advert. for sale of Richland Farm, Pennsbury Manor, Bucks County. The 290 acres offered had been part of William Penn's 8,431 acre estate on which his official residence was constructed. Penn's heirs gradually sold all of the estate, its last original building was destroyed in 1864. Because of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, the Aurora was published at Bristol from Aug. 30 to Oct. 19, 1799.
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