All and every the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim and demand of the heirs and devisees, grantees or other, claiming as proprietaries of Pennsylvania, whereof they or either of them stood seised, or to which they or any of them were entitled, or which to them were deemed to belong, on the 4th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1776, of, in or to the soil and land contained within the limits of the said late province, now state of Pennsylvania, or any part thereof, together with the royalties, franchises, lordships and all other the hereditaments and premises comprised, mentioned and granted in the same charter or letters patent of the said King Charles the Second, (except as hereinafter is excepted,)¹ shall be and they are hereby vested in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the use and benefit of the citizens thereof, freed and discharged, and absolutely acquitted, exempted and indemnified of, from and against all estates, uses, trusts, entails, reversions, remainders, limitations, charges, incumbrances, titles, claims and demands whatsoever, from, by or under the said charter or letters patent, or otherwise, as fully, clearly and entirely as if the said charter or letters patent, and the estates, interests, hereditaments and premises therein comprised, mentioned and granted, and all other the estate, right and title of the said proprietaries of, in and to the same premises, were herein transcribed and repealed.