1794 JAMES ROSE TO ROBERT H. ROSE INDENTURE
An indenture handwritten on woven paper and dated 1794. "This Indenture made this 25th of January 1794 between James Rose of Chester County on the one part and Robert H. Rose of the said place on the other part witnesseth that the said James Rose for and in consideration of the sum of seventy five pounds lawfull money to him in hand well truly paid by the said Robert, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged hath granted bargained sold and by these present do grant bargain sell assign release and confirm unto the said Robert H. Rose his heirs and assigns for ever all my right title interest claim or demand of in and to a certain tract of parcel of land situate on Pine Creek in the County of Numberland (sic) surveyed by warrant to Andrew Forsyth dated 23rd of February 1773 containing one hundred and four acres and allowed together with the appurtenances. To have and to hold to him the said Robert H. Rose his heirs executors administrators and assigns to the only proper use of him the said Robert H. Rose his heirs, executors and assigns for ever. In witness whereof I the said James Rose have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and date above."
"Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for the city and county of Philadelphia, the above named James Rose and acknowledge the foregoing to be his act and deed, and as such desires it may be recorded as witness my hand and seal this 25th day of January 1794. Jacob Servoss"
James Rose, Chester County, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, had a son, James Rose (w/Isabella Hall) of Northumberland and Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Robert H. Rose (with Jane Hodge) of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. [There was a James Rose who petitioned the Chester County, PA Court in 1738 for a license to engage in the Indian trade. (Hanna, Vol. 1, p. 179).]
Dr. Robert H. Rose was a successful landowner from nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. Dr. Rose, of Philadelphia, was very prominently identified with the early history of Susquehanna County, buying from the Francis estate 100,000 acres of land, and building a beautiful residence on the banks of Silver Lake, where he finally took up his abode. Dr. Rose became well known for his black farming communities in Silver Lake Township, Pennsylvania, in which escaped slaves would work as common laborers in return for land and equipment.
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