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Thomas
Holme, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania - Irma
Corcoran 1992
317
pages
Holme
was William Penn’s first surveyor general, a young yeoman from
the England,he enrolled in the war against King Charles I. He
was a captain in Cromwell’s
army, an official in the Down Survey of Ireland, a Quaker
minister, author, & administrator, & landholder. It was
from this life that William Penn drafted him to be the first
surveyor general of his province. There he laid out the city of
Philadelphia, superintended the surveying & settlement of
southeastern Pennsylvania, & drafted a map of all of the
then settled part of the province, recording the names of all
purchasers on their surveyed property, & participated in the
formation of the govt. that has been called the prototype of the
govt. of the U.S. Throughout the economic, religious, &
power struggles of the first dozen years of
Pennsylvania he was a partisan & defender of the interests
of William Penn.
Holme
was inducted into the 1st Annual
Northeast Philadelphia Hall of Fame in October 2009
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