RICHARD PENN (1735 - 1811) Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1771 to 1773 later a member of the British Parliament. He delivered the Olive Branch Petition to George III. Good content D.S. as Lieutenant Governor 1p. folio parchment Aug. 11 1772 a grant of land to Richard Peters a tract of 2 000 acres of land: ""...within our Indian purchase lately made at a General Treaty held at Fort Stanwix..."". Very good signed at bottom where parchment has been folded-over and originally tied with a pink ribbon. In 1768 Fort Stanwix was the site of an important treaty conference between the British and the Iroquois arranged by William Johnson. The treaty pushed the boundary of Indian lands even further west leading to more violence in the coming years. The recipient of the land may have been RICHARD PETERS (1744-1828) American lawyer jurist and politician from Philadelphia a delegate to the Continental Congress.