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From: Kimberly Ann Spangrude <>
Subject: Re: [PaOldC] RE: Land patents/grants
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:43:22 -0600
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Well, as you all know by now, the map that I took a picture of is
really difficult to see without taking it to "PhotoShop" or making it a
PDF so that you can magnify its details. Here are some of the options
I was thinking about:
1. See if there is a PDF of the map online through the Friends
Historical Library of Swarthmore College
2. Ask the Historical Society of Pennsylvania if they have scanned the
original or if they have transposed all the names and where the land is
located for each owner.
3. Use a magnifying glass
4. Ask my husband to fiddle with it using "photoshop" to see if the
detail can be magnified.
I personally opted for number 4; I will let you know how that goes :).
Kim Townsend Spangrude
On Jun 3, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Mal Humes wrote:

> I would appreciate a copy of this if you can email it to me.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Malcolm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kim Spangrude [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 7:39 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [PaOldC] RE: Land patents/grants
>
>
> This may or may not be helpful, but here goes: When I was in
> Philadelphia two weeks ago, I visited the old Quaker Meeting House in
> downtown Philadelphia, just down the street from Independence Hall.
> They had a few relics hanging on the walls from old Quakers, and I
> noticed a reproduction of the map that showed all of the land owners
> and where their property was; the explanation hanging next to this
> reproduction stated that the land owners were assigned their property
> when they were still in England, before they came to Pennsylvania. I
> took a picture of the map, if anyone is interested. I found my early
> Richard Townsend ancestor on the map.
> Kim Townsend Spangrude
> On Jun 3, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Anna B wrote:
>
>> this site has, primarily, documents dated 1820 or after; however,
>> there are
>> some very early ones.
>> Anna
>

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