They searched through the relevant county Warrant Register, and that of its parent counties, now posted on the Pennsylvania State Archives website where each page of each county’s ledger is a separate pdf file, or download and save to your computer the entire set of 67 county Warrant Registers plus 3 pre-1733 ledgers called First Landowners of PA: Colonial and State Warrant Registers in the PA Archives, Harrisburg, 1682-ca 1940 ($35). The only way to find the date, book and page of the original warrant, survey, and patent for your ancestor is to do what the state draftsmen did to create their warrantee maps of other counties. If your ancestor was actually a first landowner, purchasing his or her property from the colony or state of Pennsylvania, further information about these tracts may be gleaned from the Warrant and Patent Registers. The land office only completed mapping the first landowners of one township in Monroe County, Coolbaugh Township (see links below).

Starting in 1907, the Pennsylvania Land Office began platting the exact metes-and-bounds tracts of the original landowners, township-by-township but the Land Office only completed about 1/3 of the state before the project ended. Our goal is to post landowner maps, or links to other websites with landowner maps, for every county in the state. In addition to publishing our own books, we are posting images of 19th century maps and atlases that we personally took in the Library of Congress. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.Ancestor Tracks is committed to becoming a one-stop resource for researchers of early Pennsylvania landowners.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it.

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