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From: Kimberly Ann Spangrude <>
Subject: Re: [PaOldC] RE: Land patents/grants
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 22:17:39 -0600
References: <IHEFKDALNLOALCDJKCENEELMEJAA.gwenbj@seanet.com>
In-Reply-To: <IHEFKDALNLOALCDJKCENEELMEJAA.gwenbj@seanet.com>


Perfect, Gwen! Eleanor, I can see the Welch Section over on the far
left hand side of the map. Hope you can find your Llewelyn.
Kim
Kim
On Jun 3, 2006, at 10:10 PM, Gwen Boyer Bjorkman wrote:

> http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/atlas/1687.html
>
> This looks like a high resolution copy of the map.
>
> Gwen Boyer Bjorkman
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kimberly Ann Spangrude [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 8:43 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [PaOldC] RE: Land patents/grants
>
>
> 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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