Mar 26, 2009 - Sale 2174

Sale 2174 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(IMMIGRATION.) At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster . . . An Act for Naturalizing such Foreign Protestants . . . as are Settled, or Shall Settle in any of His Majesty's Colonies in America. Title page and pages 167-171 as issued. Folio, disbound and stapled. London, 1739

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A notable act of Parliament which allowed naturalization to immigrants who had resided 7 years in the colony, with separate provisions which excused Quakers and Jews from taking the sacrament or swearing a Christian oath. Dated 13 George II.