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Author	Topic: Johannis Nys and Cesar Ghiselin
Tad Hale Posts: 120 Registered: Jul 2005	posted 04-17-2009 01:40 PM In John Fanning Watson's original manuscript of the "Annals of Philadelphia" in the collection of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania the following paragraph appears. "To the General Assembly now Sitting the petition of Sundry the Inhabitants of this province most humbly Sheweth WHEREAS your petition's being Inhabitants of this province and being given to understand that there is great Quantities of Leaden and pewter farthings & half pence whereby your petition's are likely to be much Damaged by Reason such great Quantity's are Liable to be Crowded upon us. Now these are to Protest & humbly Interest that you would be pleased to make an act of Assembly That all such farthings and half pence that are made of Lead & pewter may be wholly suppressed & Cryed Down and only those of Copper which are the Kings Coyn may pass the farthings for two a penny & the half pence for a penny....Philadelphia the twenty first of the third month 1698." This petition was signed by fifty-three citizens including two early silversmiths, Johannis Nys and Cesar Ghiselin. Most references of Nys shows him leaving New York in 1698 and appearing in Philadelphia in 1700. This document has him coming from New York to Philadelphia the same year. IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 04-17-2009 05:21 PM Such gaps in the historical record, both small and large, are all too common. Thanks for filling this one in. IP: Logged
Tad Hale Posts: 120 Registered: Jul 2005	posted 04-18-2009 11:16 PM Thanks, Swarter, It appears that we can now add another 17th century silversmith to the Philadelphia area. Tad IP: Logged

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