Navigation and Mineral Rights

Wee doe alsoe give and grant unto the said William Penn his heires and Assignes The free and undisturbed use and continuance in and passage into and out of all and singular Ports, Harbours, Bayes, Waters, Rivers, Isles and Inletts belonging unto and {or} leading to and from the Country or Islands aforesaid. And all the Soyle, Lands, Feilds, woods underwoods, mountaines, hills, Fenns Isles, Lakes, Rivers, Waters, Rivuletts, Bayes and Inletts scituate or being within or belonging unto the Limitts and bounds aforesaid together with the fishing of all sorts of Fish whales {sturgeons} and all Royall and other Fishes in the Sea Bayes, Inletts, waters or Rivers within the premisses and the Fish therein taken. And alsoe all veines, Mines, and Quarries as well discovered as not discovered, of gold, silver, gemms, and other {pretious} stones and all other whatsoever bee it of stones, mettalls, or of any other thing or matter whatsoever, found or to be found within the Country, Isles, or limitts aforesaid.

(1770)