Philo Shelton land purchases and sales for
Penn Mining & Smelting Company

From

To

Date

Area

Cost

Reference

David & Ann Kugler

Philo Shelton

4/5/1850

21a 65p

$2,500

L5-542a; see Forge Tracts

Adam & Elizabeth Renard

Philo Shelton

3/20/1850

7a 56p

$1,250

L5-543; see Forge Tracts

Philo Shelton

Penn Mining & Smelting Company

5/1/1850

30a 100p + 7a 56p + 99a 130p - 15a

$16,217

L5-551

Penn Mining & Smelting Company

John Highley

9/1/1855

7a 56p

$650

B6-60

Heirs of Jacob Rennard

Philo Shelton

4/1/1850

99a 130p

$7,000

L5-545; see Thomas Howell Tract

Philo Shelton

Penn Mining & Smelting Company

5/1/1850

30a 100p + 7a 56p + 99a 130p - 15a

$16,217

L5-551

Penn Mining & Smelting Company

Henry Bush

10/20/1855

84a 130p

$4,200

A6-92

Penn Mining & Smelting Company

William Riddington

11/21/1855

21a 65p

$1,400

Z5-535; see Michael Dougherty tract for later history

Barnet Rapp

1799

29a

Tax returns; Log Dwelling house 15' x 20'; Frame Kitchen 15' x 10'; Stone Springhouse 10' x 8'; Log Barn 20' x 30'; Stone Smithshop 16' x 18'

Barnet Rapp

1824

Died; to wife the estate in her lifetime. Son Barnet smith tools & shop. Son Joseph wheelwright shop. After wife's death estate to be split between 9 children.

John & Barnet Rapp, executors of the estate of Barnet Rapp

Henry Kurtz

4/23/1849

30a 100p

$1,715

I5-498

Henry Kurtz of Schuylkill

Philo Shelton of Boston, MA

3/15/1850

30a 100p

L5-548

Catharine & Hannah Gwinn

Philo Shelton

4/5/1850

80.75a

$7,260

L5-549; see David Matthias tract

Philo Shelton

Penn Mining & Smelting Company

5/1/1850

30a 100p + 7a 56p + 99a 130p - 15a

$16,217

L5-551; see above 84a 130p tract sold 1855

Penn Mining & Smelting Company

1883

Acreage not noted

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