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From: "Kathryn Payne" <>
Subject: Re: [PaOldC] Warrantees of Land for Chester County, Pennsylvania,1733-1858
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:39:33 -0500
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If you go to
http://www.accessible.com/amcnty/images/Pa2/DauphinLebanon/007.jpg

there is a rough map of Lancaster County in 1730. It gives you an idea of
where towns were located. It is from
http://www.accessible.com/amcnty/PA/DauphinLebanon/titlepage.htm
a History of the counties of Dauphin & Lebanon.

Kathryn
----- Original Message -----
From: "joe patterson" <>
To: "Gwen Boyer Bjorkman" <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [PaOldC] Warrantees of Land for Chester County, Pennsylvania,
1733-1858


> Gwen Boyer Bjorkman wrote:
>
>>http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/chester/land/warrantees1.txt
>>Warrantees of Land for Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1733-1858:
>>
>>Boyer, Philip, 50 acres March 3, 1752.
>>
>>How do I find out where this land was located? The Preface says: "For
>>instance it may be stated
>>that Lebanon county was formed in 1813 from a portion of Dauphin, and that
>>Dauphin was formed from a
>>part of Lancaster in 1785; and Lancaster was formed in 1729, from a part
>>of Chester."
>>
>>So could this land have been in present day Lebanon County? Are there
>>survey records somewhere?
>>
>>Gwen Boyer Bjorkman
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/Bah/DAM/rg/di/r17-88WarrantRegisters/r17-88AllCountiesInterface.htm
>
> Gwen, while searching for something Google provided this site as a choice.
>
> The Warrants are abstracted into a list that provides additional info.
>
> On Chester County B's page 5....... Philip appears and the 50 acres are
> in NANTMEAL Twp.
>
> Dates of the patent are shown as well as who patented the land. in this
> case Michael Boyer who also has additional land on page 6.
>
> Joe
>
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