Pennsylvania Land Records: A History and Guide for ResearchThe genealogist trying to locate families, the surveyor or attorney researching old deeds, or the historian seeking data on land settlement will find Pennsylvania Land Records an indispensable aid. The land records of Pennsylvania are among the most complete in the nation, beginning in the 1680s. Pennsylvania Land Records not only catalogs, cross-references, and tells how to use the countless documents in the archive, but also takes readers through a concise history of settlement in the state. The guide explains how to use the many types of records, such as rent-rolls, ledgers of the receiver general's office, mortgage certificates, proof of settlement statements, and reports of the sale of town lots. In addition, the volume includes: cross-references to microfilm copies; maps of settlement; illustrations of typical documents; a glossary of technical terms; and numerous bibliographies on related topics. |
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Contents
IIIF4 Receiver General | 100 |
IIIF5 Master of the Rolls | 102 |
IIIG Records | 104 |
IIIG1 Applications | 105 |
IIIG1b Applications 17651766 | 106 |
IIIG2 Warrants | 107 |
IIIG3 Surveys | 113 |
IIIG4 Returns of Survey | 114 |
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IIIE1b Lottery Land | 71 |
Land | 73 |
IIIE1c1 East Side Applications | 74 |
IIIE1c2 West Side Applications | 77 |
IIIE1d Vancant Unwarrented Land | 78 |
IIIE2 Land within the Purchase of 1768 | 79 |
IIIE2a1 Officers Tracts | 80 |
IIIE2a3 Settlers Tracts | 81 |
Land | 84 |
IIIE3b Proprietary Towns | 88 |
IIIE3C Islands | 90 |
IIIF Land Office | 92 |
Affairs | 95 |
IIIF3a Surveyor General | 97 |
IIIF3b Deputy Surveyors | 99 |
IIIG5 Patents | 117 |
IIIG6 1759 Transcripts Green Books | 119 |
Land Settlement 17761990 The Commonwealth IVA Introduction | 125 |
IVB1 Divesting Law | 126 |
IVB2b Reserved Land | 127 |
IVB4 Applicant Required to Prove the Vacancy | 128 |
IVC2 County Formation 17791792 | 129 |
IVD Categories of Purchasers | 132 |
IVD2 Virginia Claimants | 133 |
IVD3 Connecticut Claimants | 135 |
IVD4 Squatters | 141 |
IVE Categories of Land | 145 |
IVE1 Land within the Purchases of 1768 and Earlier | 146 |
IVE1b Vacant Unwarranted Land | 150 |
IVElc Philadelphia City Lots and Proprietary Towns | 151 |
IVE2 Land within the Purchase of 1784 | 153 |
IVE2a2 Northumberland Lottery | 155 |
IVE2a3 Vacant Unwarranted Land | 157 |
IVE2b West of the Allegheny River and Conewango Creek | 159 |
IVE2b2 Donation Lands | 163 |
IVE2b3 Reserved Land | 167 |
IVE2b4 Vacant Unwarranted Land | 172 |
IVE3a Islands | 174 |
IVE3b Riverbeds | 176 |
IVR Land Office | 179 |
IVF1 The Office | 180 |
IVF2 Board of Property | 183 |
Office | 186 |
IVF4a Surveyor General | 188 |
Surveyors | 191 |
IVF5 Receiver General | 193 |
IVF6 Master of the Rolls | 197 |
IVG Records | 198 |
IVG2 Warrants | 201 |
IVG3 Surveys | 203 |
IVG4 Returns of Survey | 206 |
IVG5 Patents | 207 |
Land Settlement 19051990 Epilogue | 209 |
VC Warrant Tract Maps | 210 |
VD Public Land Law of 1959 | 212 |
VE Commonwealth Owned Land | 213 |
The 1759 Land Office Inventory and Transcripts | 215 |
Miscellaneous Papers | 223 |
Numerical List of Land Office Microfilm | 225 |
Glossary | 233 |
Index | 237 |
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Common terms and phrases
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Page 80 - Map of the Frontiers of the Northern Colonies ; with the Boundary Line established between them and the Indians, at the Treaty held by Sir William Johnson at Fort Stanwix in Nov. 1768 : Corrected and improved from Evans's Map, by Guy Johnson, Deputy agent of Indian affairs.
Page 227 - Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bradford, Bucks, Butler, Cambria, Cameron, Carbon, Centre, Chester, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Crawford, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Elk, Erie, Fayette, Forest, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Huntingdon, Indiana, Jefferson, Juniata...
Page 20 - Sculkil; whereby it hath two fronts upon the water, each a mile; and two from river to river. Delaware is a glorious river; but the...
Page 23 - Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsilvania in America Begun by Wil : Penn Proprietary & Governor thereof Anno 1681.
Page xxiii - Richard S. Dunn and Mary Maples Dunn, eds., The Papers of William Penn, vol. 2, 1680-1684 (Philadelphia: Universiiy of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), 130; Mary Maples Dunn and Richard S. Dunn, "The Founding, 1681-1701," in Philadelphia: A Three-Hundred-Year History, ed.
Page 19 - A Map of the Province of Pennsilvania, Containing the three Countyes of Chester Philadelphia & Bucks as far as yet surveyed and laid out, the divisions or distinctions made by the different coullers respect the settlements by way of townships. By Thos. Holme, Survey?
Page 43 - ... it, if not true let him suffer the law for a forger & if true for an extortioner!' Apparently Lehnman had set up a profitable little business for himself, making people pay for several warrants to have their land surveyed, for later in the letter Penn went back to the subject; he was really angry. "It is an abominable thing to have three warrants for one purchase, tis an oppression that my soul loathes. I do hereby require it that R L. be called to account!
Page xxiv - The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania in the Time of William Penn.
Page 20 - Reed (John) An Explanation of the Map of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia Philadelphia, for the Author, 1774, 4° Twenty-four pp. ' An Alphabetical List of the First Purchasers' Names,' etc. 8 and 23 pp. ' The Date of Surveys,
Bibliographic information
| Title | Pennsylvania Land Records: A History and Guide for Research G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Author | Donna B. Munger |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0842024972, 9780842024976 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / United States / State & Local / General History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) |
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