William Penn laid out the “Manor of Mount Joy” for his daughter in 1683. The Manor comprised 7,800 acres and included nearly all of present-day Upper Merion Township, whose boundaries it overlapped. The rent for the 7,800 acres was to be one beaver skin a year.
(Courtesy of the King of Prussia Historical Society.)
E-History Fact published 5/29/2015 Upper Merion Township E-Newsletter