Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Pennsylvania State Archives
RG-17
Records of the LAND OFFICE
The origins of the Proprietary Land Office
may be traced to 1682 when William Penn appointed Thomas Holme Surveyor General.
Under a constantly evolving set of procedures and relationships, the Surveyor
General cooperated with the Secretary of Proprietary Affairs, a Master of Rolls,
a Receiver General, and Commissioners of Property in conducting the sale of Pennsylvania
lands. Acting collectively, the various officers who comprised the Land Office
were responsible for accepting applications, issuing warrants, surveying tracts,
verifying returns of survey and granting patents for tracts of land in Pennsylvania.
By 1699 the Land Office was operating from Samuel Carpenter's Philadelphia residence,
sometimes called the Slate Roof House, where William Penn and Secretary of Proprietary
Affairs James Logan then resided. The Land Office was moved to Clark's Hall when
Deputy Governor John Evans arrived in Philadelphia in 1704. When William Penn's
heirs, Thomas and John Penn, acted as Commissioners of Property from 1733-1741
they conducted Land Office business from their home. Upon their return to England,
the Penn brothers abolished the positions of Commissioners of Property and delegated
responsibility for signing warrants and patents to the Deputy Governor. The Secretary
of Provincial Affairs began conducting land office business from rooms in the
west wing of the new State House, the present day Independence Hall, during the
early 1740s.
After the outbreak of the Revolutionary War the proprietary
Land Office ceased to function. The Divesting Act of 1779 transferred ownership
of most of the remaining 22 million acres of proprietary lands to the Commonwealth.
In 1781 the Revolutionary Era State Assembly created a new State Land Office consisting
of a Secretary, a Receiver General, and a Surveyor General who were assigned the
records and responsibilities of their proprietary predecessors of the same titles.
A Board of Property, similar to Commissioners of Property under the Penn government,
was also created in 1782 to hear and determine cases of disputes arising from
the transaction of Land Office business. The Board initially consisted of either
the president or vice-president of the Supreme Executive Council, an additional
member of the Council, and the appointed officers of the Land Office.
In
1809, the offices of Receiver General and Master of Rolls were abolished and the
responsibilities of collecting purchase money and enrolling state laws were assigned
to the Secretary of the Land Office and the Secretary of the Commonwealth respectively.
In that year, the patent books and land-title papers of the Master of Rolls were
transferred to the Secretary of the Land Office. In 1843, the functions of the
Secretary of the Land Office were inherited by the Surveyor General. The Constitution
of 1873 transferred the duties of the Surveyor General and the Land Office to
the Secretary of Internal Affairs. The Land Office Bureau, or as it was later
designated, the Bureau of Land Records, remained in the Department of Internal
Affairs until 1968, when it was assigned to the Department of Community Affairs.
In 1981, the Bureau of Land Records and its functions were transferred to the
Historical and Museum Commission where it became the Division of Land Records
in 1986. In 1989 the Division of Land Records was merged into the Division of
Archives and Manuscripts within the Bureau of Archives and History and no longer
existed as an independent entity. In the year 2000, the patenting functions of
the Land Office were placed into the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
The Division of Archives and Manuscripts in the Bureau of Archives and History
of the Historical and Museum Commission remains the depository of original titles
and conveyances and the custodian of deeds and instruments relating to real estate
owned by the Commonwealth.
The Land Office was also custodian of the records
of the Pennsylvania Board of Canal Commissioners which was authorized in 1826
to construct and operate a state canal system. In 1857 and 1858 the waterways
and adjunct railroads of the Pennsylvania Canal were sold by the Commonwealth.
When the Board of Canal Commissioners was abolished in 1859 its records were transferred
first to the Department of Auditor General, and then in 1885 to the Department
of Internal Affairs. With the transfer of the Land Office to the Historical and
Museum Commission in 1981, these records came to reside with the other Land Office
records in the Division of Archives and Manuscripts.
For each series title,
the Land Office digitized (LO) roll number is given where applicable as well as
the page number (PLR) on which the records are described in Donna Munger's Pennsylvania
Land Records, A History and Guide for Research. In order to avoid confusion
among patrons using this published finding aid, to the extent practical series
titles have been made to conform to titles appearing in Donna Munger's guide.
This WEB finding aid contains numerous additions, revisions and corrections to
Donna Munger's guide and in cases of conflicting information this WEB finding
aid should be regarded as the more accurate. The series titles for the records
of the Land Office are here arranged by functional groupings that reflect the
evolving procedures used for granting land in Pennsylvania during the last three
centuries. Occasionally, more than one record series will be found bound within
a single volume and these are therefore listed as separate series. Records relating
to special programs such as islands, Connecticut and Virginia Claims, Donation
and Depreciation lands, Nicholson lands and the graduated land program are grouped
into their respective categories together with a historical explanation of the
special circumstances involved. Correspondence, minute books, ledgers, journals,
and daybooks that represent routine daily or monthly operations of commissions,
boards, or offices continue to be grouped together under the offices by which
they were created and are accompanied by a history of the respective commission,
board, or office.
Patrons researching early land grants and who know the
name of either the original warrantee or patentee may proceed directly to the
warrant and patent indexes to find the volume, book, and page numbers on which
the warrant, survey, and patent are recorded. In cases where such names are not
known, but the location of the tract is known, patrons may wish to first examine
any existing warrantee township maps, connected drafts, or county worksheet folios
in the Land Office Map Collection. There is also an index available if the name
of the tract is known but not the name of the warrantee or patentee. For more
complicated searches, patrons should consult Donna Munger's Pennsylvania
Land Records. A History and Guide for Research.
Outline
of Arrangement
I.Records
of Pre-Penn Settlement
II.Deeds of Lease and Release
III.Warrant
Applications
Loose Warrant Applications
Applications for Warrants Refused, Escheated or Withdrawn Warrant Application
Transcript Books Warrant Application Registers Warrant Application Indexes
IV.Warrants
Loose Original Warrants Warrant Transcript Books Warrant
and Old Rights Registers Warrant Indexes
V.Surveys
Original Surveys Copied Surveys
Indexes of Surveys Maps
VI.Returns of Survey
Loose Returns of Survey Copied
Returns of Survey
VII.Patents
Loose Patents and Papers Related to Patents Patent Transcript Books Patent
Registers
VIII.Records
of Island Programs
IX.Records
of Donation Lands in the Purchase of 1784
X.Records
of Depreciation Land Program
XI.Records
of Connecticut Claims
XII.Records
of Virginia Claims
XIII.Records
Relating to Vacant Land Law of 1792
XIV.Records
of Nicholson Lands
XV.Graduated
Land Certificates
XVI.Records
of Town Lots
Philadelphia Lots Proprietary
Towns Commonwealth Towns
XVII.Rent
Rolls
XVIII.Deeds
Original Deeds Deed Books Deed Registers
XIX.Records of the Secretary
of the Land Office
XX.Records
of the Office of Receiver General
XXI.Records
of the Surveyor General
XXII.Records
of the Board of Property
XXIII.Records
of the Master of Rolls
XXIV.Department
of Internal Affairs Era Records
XXV.
Records of the Board of Canal Commissioners
I.
Records of Pre-Penn Settlement
Patents by Royal Governors of New York,
1667-1682. (1 volume){#17.1} [Description]
[Holdings] Patents by Royal Governors of New
York, 1667-1682. (1 volume, Binding 26){#17.2} [Description]
[Holdings] New Castle County Survey Notes,
1673-1679. (1 volume) {#17.3} [Description]
[Holdings] Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex Surveys,
1675-1735. (1 volume) {#17.4} [Description]
[Holdings]
II.
Deeds of Lease and Release
Leases and Releases, 1684-1706. (4 volumes, Bindings 78, 29, 80, 81) {#17.5}
[Description] [Holdings]
General Index to Leases and Releases, undated. (1 volume, Binding 77) {#17.6}
[Description] [Holdings]
III.
Warrant Applications
A. Loose Warrant
Applications and Lists
Applications for Warrants, 1734-1952 (70 cartons) {#17.7}
[Description] [Holdings]
Application Lists, 1742-1774. (2 folders) {#17.8} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Applications, 1742-1865
(1 carton) {#17.9} [Description]
[Holdings]
Applications, 1802-1951. (1 carton, 1 box) {#17.10} [Description]
[Holdings]
Warrant Applications, A-Z, [ca.
1760s]. (1 box) {#17.11} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications for Warrants, New
Purchase, 1769. (2 cartons) {#17.12} [Description]
[Holdings] Miscellaneous Applications for
Warrants, 1784-1834. (2 cartons) {#17.13} [Description]
[Holdings] Pre-emption Applications, 1785.
(6 folders) {#17.14} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Application Lists, 1785-1865.
(25 folders) {#17.15} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications for Warrants, 1792-1866.
(1 box) {#17.16} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications for Riverbed Warrants,
1803, 1848-1865. (20 folders) {#17.17} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant and Patent Application
Case Files, 1919-1997. (9 cartons) {#17.18} [Description]
[Holdings] (* see also: Blunston Licenses:
A Record of Licenses Granted to Sundry Persons to Settle and Take Up Land on the
West Side of Susquehanna River, [ca. 1736]. (1 folder) {#17.319}[Description]
[Holdings] B.
Applications for Warrants Refused, Escheated or Withdrawn
Applications
for Warrants Not Issued, 1802-1951. (41 folders) {#17.19} [Description]
[Holdings] Escheats, 1846-1943. (1 carton)
{#17.20} [Description] [Holdings]
Applications for Warrants Caveated and Without Disposition, 1873-1882. (7
folders) {#17.21} [Description]
[Holdings]
Applications for Warrants Withdrawn,
1874-1912. (45 folders) {#17.22} [Description]
[Holdings] Unassigned Applications Relating
to Warranting and Patenting of Land, 1903-1970. (1 carton) {#17.23} [Description]
[Holdings]
C. Warrant Application Transcript Books, 1732-1774
Applications,
1732-1733. (1 volume, Binding 123) {#17.24} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications, 1741-1746. (1 volume,
Binding 121) {#17.25} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications, 1755-1756. (1 volume,
Binding 125) {#17.26} [Description]
[Holdings] Special Applications, 1760-1765.
(1 volume, Binding 166) {#17.27} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications, 1762-1766. (3 volumes,
Binding 126, 127, 128) {#17.28} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications, March 26 to December
11, 1767. (1 volume, Binding 122) {#17.29} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications for Warrant, 1768-1771.
(1 volume, Binding 124) {#17.30} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications for Survey for Last
Purchase, Nos. 1-3849, 1769-1773. (1 volume, Binding 113) {#17.31} [Description]
[Holdings] D. Warrant
Application Registers, 1765-present.
East Side
Applications Received, 1765-1766. (1 volume, Binding 105) {#17.32} [Description]
[Holdings] East Side Applications, 1765-1766.
(1 volume, Binding 107) {#17.33} [Description]
[Holdings] East Side of Susquehanna Application
Book, 1765-1769. (1 volume, Binding 63) {#17.34} [Description]
[Holdings] East Side Applications (Register),
1765-1769. (1 volume) {#17.35} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
Application Books, East Side, 1765-1769. (2 volumes, Bindings 108, 109) {#17.36}
[Description] [Holdings]
East Side Applications Register, 1765-1769. (2 volumes) {#17.37} [Description]
[Holdings] West Side Applications Register,
1766-1769. (1 volume) {#17.38} [Description]
[Holdings] West Side Applications, 1766-1769.
(1 volume, Binding 64) {#17.39} [Description]
[Holdings] West Side Applications (Register),
1766-1769. (1 volume) {#17.40} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
West Side Application Book, 1767-1769. (1 volume, Binding 110) {#17.41}
[Description] [Holdings]
New Purchase, 1769. (1 volume) {#17.42} [Description]
[Holdings] New Purchase Register, 1769. (1
volume) {#17.43} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
New Purchase Applications, Nos. 1-3683, 1769. (1 volume) {#17.44} [Description]
[Holdings] Applicants, 1784-1785 (1 volume,
Binding 99) {#17.45} [Description]
[Holdings] Record of Land Applicants, 1784-1786.
(3 volumes, Bindings 100, 101, 102) {#17.46} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications, 1794. (1 volume)
{#17.47} [Description] [Holdings]
Applications for Vacant Land Under Acts of Assembly Approved March 28, 1905
and May 3, 1909, 1905-1909. (1 volume) {#17.48} [Description]
[Holdings] E. Warrant
Application Indexes
Alphabetical Index, 1 to 3267 East Side Applications,
1765-1765. (1 volume, Binding 131) {#17.49} [Description]
[Holdings] Index to East Side Applications,
1765-1769. (1 volume, Binding 106) {#17.50} [Description]
[Holdings] Index to New Purchase Applications,
1769. (1 volume, Binding 111) {#17.51} [Description]
[Holdings] Index to New Purchase Register,
undated. (1 item) {#17.52} [Description]
[Holdings]
IV.
Warrants
A. Loose Original Warrants
Original Warrants, [1682-present]. (243 cartons) {#17.53}
[Description] [Holdings]
Miscellaneous Warrant Copies and Related Papers, 1701-1776. (10 folders) {#17.54}
[Description] [Holdings]
Warrants: York County. Springettsbury Manor, [ca. 1738-1813]. {#17.55}
[Description] [Holdings]
Warrants: John Baynton and Samuel Wharton, 1762-1838. (5 folders) {#17.56}
[Description] [Holdings]
Original Warrants: Depreciation Lands, 1785-1819. (1 carton, 1 box) {#17.57}
[Description] [Holdings]
Original Warrants: Northumberland Lottery, 1785. (1 carton) {#17.58}
[Description] [Holdings]
Original Warrants: Last Purchase, 1785-1817. (10 cartons) {#17.59}
[Description] [Holdings]
Warrants Written But Not Issued, Warrants Signed But Not Pursued, and Deputy
Counterparts, and Related Records, 1704-1905. (10 cartons) {#17.527} [Description] [Holdings] [Images]
B. Warrant Transcript Books
Warrant Book No. 3, 1682-1684. (1 volume, Book 15)
{#17.63} [Description] [Holdings]
Warrants, 1682-1684. (1 volume, Book 16) {#17.64} [Description]
[Holdings] Proprietary Warrants, 1682-1686.
(2 volumes, Books 26, 41) {#17.65} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Book, 1685-1691. (1 volume,
Books 14) {#17.66} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Book, 1700-1715. (1 volume,
Book 117) {#17.67} [Description]
[Holdings] Proprietary and Commissioner Warrants,
1700-1715. (2 volumes, Books 36, 37) {#17.68} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Book, 1715-1741. (1 volume,
Book 118) {#17.69} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrants of Property, 1714-1735.
(1 volume, Book 28) {#17.70} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Register, 1716-1739. (1
volume, Book 22) {#17.71} [Description]
[Holdings] Fragments of Warrant Book, 1A-1B,
1729-1741. (1 volume) {#17.72} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrants, 1682-1684. (1 volume,
Book 16) {#17.73} [Description]
[Holdings] Transcripts of Old Rights Warrants
Issued 1682-1732, 1759. (11 volumes) {#17.74} [Description]
[Holdings] Transcripts of New Warrants, 1733-1759.
(12 volumes) {#17.75} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Books, 1775-1776, 1781-1814,
1827-1848, 1863-1888. (16 volumes) {#17.76} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrants Copy Books, 1773-1930.
(175 volumes and 19 packages of 313 booklets) {#17.77} [Description]
[Holdings] C. Warrant
and Old Rights Registers
Old Rights Index
for Bucks and Chester Counties, 1682-1740. (1 volume) {#17.78} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
Philadelphia Old Rights (Index), 1682-1745. (1 volume) {#17.79} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
Warrants for City Lots Book, 1682-1761. (1 volume, Binding 115) {#17.80}
[Description] [Holdings]
Warrant Book, 1682-1761. (1 volume, Binding 116) {#17.81} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Register Book, 1682-1762.
(1 volume, Binding 114) {#17.82} [Description]
[Holdings] Original Purchases Register, 1687-1762.
(1 volume) {#17.83} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
Warrant Register, 1719, 1737, 1741-1744. (1 volume) {#17.84} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Book No. 27, 1733-1734.
(1 volume, Binding 6f) {#17.85} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Book, 1733-1737. (1 volume,
Binding 6e) {#17.86} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Register, 1733-1738. (1
volume, Binding 51) {#17.87} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant
Registers With Green Covers, 1733-1957. (21 volumes) {#17.88} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
Warrant Registers With White Covers, 1733-1957. (10 volumes) {#17.89}
[Description] [Holdings]
Register of Old and New Rights for Bucks, Chester, Philadelphia, Lancaster
Counties, 1734-1759. (2 volumes, Binding 138, 139) {#17.90} [Description]
[Holdings] Fragments of Warrant Register
1A-1B, 1739-1741. (1 volume) {#17.91} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Register, 1741-1744. (1
volume, Binding 119) {#17.92} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Book No. 9, 1741-1748.
(1 volume, Binding 13) {#17.93} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Register, 1741-1752. (1
volume, Binding 57) {#17.94} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Book No. 18, 1745-1746.
(1 volume, Binding 12) {#17.95} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Book, 1747-1748. (1 volume,
Binding 6c) {#17.96} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Register for Bucks, Chester,
Philadelphia, Lancaster and York Counties, 1748-1752. (1 volume, Binding 143)
{#17.97} [Description] [Holdings]
Warrant Book for Cumberland, Lancaster, Philadelphia, Northampton and York
Counties, 1749-1760. (1 volume) {#17.98} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Books 20, 21, 22, and
unnumbered, 1750-1757. (4 volumes, Bindings 8, 9, 10, 11) {#17.99} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Register, 1752-1759. (1
volume, Binding 54) {#17.100} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Books, 1775-76, 1781-1814,
1827-1848, 1863-1888. (16 volumes) {#17.101} [Description]
[Holdings] Incomplete Warrant Register for
Bedford, Blair, Centre, Clinton, and Huntingdon Counties, [ca. 1776-1871]. (1
volume) {#17.102} [Description]
[Holdings] Incomplete Warrant Register for
Armstrong, Elk, Indiana, Montour, Snyder, Washington and Westmoreland Counties,
[ca, 1785-1866] (1 volume) {#17.103} [Description]
[Holdings] Last Purchase Warrant Register,
1784 (1 volume) {#17.528} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
Last Purchase Alphabetical Warrant Register, 1785-1821. (1 volume, Binding
164) {#17.104} [Description]
[Holdings] Last Purchase Warrant Register,
1785-1821. (1 volume) {#17.105} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Books for Bedford, Greene,
Luzerne, Tioga, Lycoming, Northampton, and Somerset Counties, 1792-1816. (2 volumes,
Binding 146, 147) {#17.106} [Description]
[Holdings] List of Land Applicants, March
15, 1794, (1 volume, Binding 103) {# 17.107} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Register 14 for Franklin,
Fulton, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, Snyder, and Union Counties, undated. (1 volume)
{#17.108} [Description] [Holdings]
Baynton and Wharton Warrant Register, undated. (1 volume) {#17.109}
[Description] [Holdings]
D. Warrant Indexes
Proprietary
Rights Index, 1683-1808 & undated. (2 volumes) {#17.110} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant Book Indexes, 1700-1741,
1793-1795, & undated. (15 volumes) {#17.111} [Description]
[Holdings]
V. Surveys
A. Original Surveys
Original (Loose) Surveys, 1662-present. (152 cartons, 1 box) {#17.112}
[Description] [Holdings]
[Select
Images]
Proprietary Manor Surveys, 1717-1776.
(34 folders) {#17.113} [Description]
[Holdings] B.
Copied Surveys
Copied Surveys, 1682-1912.
(477 volumes) {#17.114} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
Copied Surveys, Secretary of Internal Affairs Henry Houck, 1910-1912. (4 volumes)
{#17.115} [Description] [Holdings]
Miscellaneous Copied Surveys, 1872-1874. (1 folder) {#17.543} [Description]
[Holdings]
C. Indexes of Surveys
Proprietary Rights
Index, 1683-1808, & undated. (2 volumes) {#17.116} [Description]
[Holdings]
D. Maps
Land Office Map Collection, 1680-ongoing, & undated. (3,783 maps) {#17.522}
[Description] [Holdings]
[Images
of Connected Drafts] [Images
of Warrantee Township Maps]
Melish-Whiteside
Maps, 1816-1821. (45 maps) {#17.534} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
[Melish Maps - Series #17.343]
VI.
Returns of Survey
A. Loose Returns
of Survey
Returns of Survey (Loose), 1678-1870. (103 cartons and 1
box) {#17.117} [Description]
[Holdings]
Miscellaneous Drafts of Surveys and Returns [ca. 1734-1792,
undated]. (5 folders) {#17.118} [Description]
[Holdings] Returns for the Re-Survey of
Callowhill, 1744-1746. (2 folders) {#17.119} [Description]
[Holdings] Miscellaneous Returns of Survey,
1756-1809. (6 folders) {#17.120} [Description]
[Holdings] B.
Copied Returns of Survey
Returns of Philadelphia City Lots, No. 2, 1681-1684.
(1 volume, Binding 93) {#17.121} [Description]
[Holdings] Returns of Surveys, A-1, 1684-1693.
(1 volume, Binding 68) {#17.122} [Description]
[Holdings] Recorded Surveys, No. 32, 1684-1693.
(1 volume, Binding 6d) {#17.123} [Description]
[Holdings] Register of Surveys, 1684-1700,
1716-1724. (1 volume, Binding 7) {#17.124} [Description]
[Holdings] Returns for Bucks, Berks, Chester,
Cumberland, Lancaster and Philadelphia Counties, 1684-1759. (3 volumes, Bindings
32, 33, 53) {#17.125} [Description]
[Holdings] Philadelphia County and City
Returns and Bucks County Returns, 1684-1759. (3 digitized rolls) {#17.126}
[Description] [Holdings]
Returns for Bucks and Philadelphia Counties, 1719-1738. (1 volume, Binding
149) {#17.127} [Description] [Holdings]
Copies of the Surveyor General's Returns, 1700-1736. (1 volume, Binding 18)
{#17.128} [Description] [Holdings]
Returns of Survey, 1733-1744. (1 volume) {#17.129} [Description]
[Holdings] Returns for Lancaster County,
1733-1759. (3 volumes, Binding 33, 45, 48){#17.130} [Description]
[Holdings] Returns for Berks County, A to
Z, 1733-1759. (1 volume, Binding 53) {#17.131} [Description]
[Holdings] Returns for York County, A to
Z, 1733-1759. (1 volume, Binding 29) {#17.132} [Description]
[Holdings] Returns for Cumberland County,
A to Z, 1733-1759. (1 volume, Binding 53) {#17.133} [Description]
[Holdings] Returns for Northampton County,
A to Z, 1733-1759. (1 volume, Binding 29) {#17.134} [Description]
[Holdings] Returns for Berks, Bucks, Cumberland,
Chester, Lancaster, Northampton, and York Counties, 1734-1760. (1 volume, Binding
27) {#17.135} [Description] [Holdings]
Surveyor General's Returns of Survey, No. 5, 1736-1740. (1 volume, Binding
75) {#17.136} [Description] [Holdings]
Record of Returns of Surveys, 1740-1747. (1 volume, Binding 76) {#17.137}
[Description] [Holdings]
Returns of Survey, 1748-1753. (1 volume, Binding 19) {#17.138} [Description]
[Holdings] Returns of Survey, 1753-1759.
(1 volume) {#17.139} [Description]
[Holdings]
VII.
Patents
A. Loose Patents and Papers
Related to Patents
Miscellaneous Patents and
Canceled Patents, 1700-1942. (6 cartons) {#17.140} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications for Patents, 1870-1953.
(6 cartons) {#17.141} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications for Patents Refused,
1786-1924 (1 box) {#17.530} [Description]
[Holdings]
B.
Patent Transcript Books
Patent Books, A and AA Series, 1684-1781.
(37 volumes, Bindings A1-A20, AA1-AA16) {#17.142} [Description]
[Holdings] Patent Books, P Series with Index,
1781-1809. (70 volumes) {#17.144} [Description]
[Holdings] Patent Books, H Series, 1809-present.
(80 volumes) {#17.145} [Description]
[Holdings] Commission Books, 1733-1809.
(6 volumes) {#17.143} [Description]
[Holdings] C.
Patent Registers
Warrant Book, 1684-1691. (1
volume, Binding 14) {#17.146} [Description]
[Holdings] Patent Index, A and AA Series,
1684-1781. (1 volume) {#17.147} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
Patent Register, 1701-1728. (1 volume) {#17.148} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant and Patent Registers,
1700-1728. (1 volume, Binding 22) {#17.149} [Description]
[Holdings] Patent Book, 1732-1741. (1 volume,
Binding 6) {#17.150} [Description]
[Holdings] Patent Books, 1733-1753. (3 volumes,
Bindings 2, 3, 60){#17.151} [Description]
[Holdings] Indexes to Patent Books, 1768-1775,
1796-1797, 1837-1839, & undated. (8 volumes) {#17.152} [Description]
[Holdings] Patent Register, 1781-1786. (2
volumes, Bindings 129, 148) {#17.153} [Description]
[Holdings] Patent Index, P Series, 1781-1809.
(4 volumes) {#17.154} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
Patent Index, H Series, 1809-present. (5 volumes) {#17.155} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
Patent Register, 1873-1933. (1 volume) {#17.156} [Description]
[Holdings] Patent Book, Lancaster County,
[ca. 1734-1789]. (1 volume) {#17.157} [Description]
[Holdings] Patent Tract Name Index, undated.
(4 volumes) {#17.158} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
VIII.
Records of Island Programs
Islands Applications, 1757-1922.
(3 cartons) {#17.159} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications for Islands, 1791-1811.
(1 volume, Binding 163) {#17.160} [Description]
[Holdings] Islands in the Susquehanna, 1793-1812.
(1 volume) {#17.161} [Description]
[Holdings] Orders for Islands, 1793-1901.
(4 cartons) {#17.162} [Description]
[Holdings] Islands in the Susquehanna River,
1797-1906. (1 volume) {#17.163} [Description]
[Holdings] Islands in the Rivers Delaware,
Ohio, Allegheny, Schuylkill, Etc., 1798-1903. (1 volume) {#17.164}
[Description] [Holdings]
IX.
Records of Donation Lands in the Purchase of 1784
Pennsylvania
Line Entitled to Donation Land, [ca. 1780-1794]. {#17.165} [Description]
[Holdings] Donation Lands Granted to the
Pennsylvania Line, [ca. 1780-1830]. (1 volume){#17.166} [Description]
[Holdings] Muster Rolls (Actually Lists
of Unpaid Militia Fines for Absent Soldiers), 1782-1834. (2 folders) {#17.167}
[Description] [Holdings]
Donation Claimant Papers, [ca. 1785-1810]. (3 cartons) {#17.168} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
Donation Land Patents, [ca. 1785-1810]. (1 carton) {#17.169} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
Register of Donation Land Patenting Fees, 1786-1796. (1 volume) {#17.170}
[Description] [Holdings]
Lists of Donation Land Lots Lying in New York, 1791-1796. (1 volume, Binding
135) {#17.171} [Description]
[Holdings] Donation Land Book, 1791-1808.
(1 volume) {#17.172} [Description]
[Holdings] Claimants for Donation Lands
[ca. 1792-1799]. {#17.173} [Description]
[Holdings] Donation Land Register, [ca.
1794]. (1 volume, Binding 34) {#17.174} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
Transmittals of Patents for Donation Lands, 1803-1809. (1 folder) {#17.175}
[Description] [Holdings]
Lists of Donation Lands for the Pennsylvania Line, 1813 {#17.176} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications for Donation Lands
Lots, 1813-1868. (3 folders) {#17.177} [Description]
[Holdings] Lists of Donation Land Claimants,
undated. (1 volume, Binding 136) {#17.178} [Description]
[Holdings] Register of Donation Land Claimants
Reported per John Nicholson, 1781-1795. (1 volume) {#17.531} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
Miscellaneous Donation Land Documents, Lists and Related Files, 1786-1839.
(4 folders) {#17.532} [Description] [Holdings]
[Images]
X.
Records of Depreciation Land Program
Journal for Depreciation Lands and Philadelphia and Beaver
Town Lots,1783-1796. (1 volume) {#17.179} [Description]
[Holdings] Depreciation Land Drafts, 1785-1789.
(15 folders) {#17.180} [Description]
[Holdings] Depreciation Certificates Canceled,
No. 1, undated. (1 volume, Binding 137) {#17.181} [Description]
[Holdings] Depreciation Land Ledger, undated.
(1 volume) {#17.182} [Description]
[Holdings] Depreciation Ticket Book, undated.
(1 volume) {#17.183} [Description]
[Holdings] Depreciation Land Register, undated.
(1 volume) {#17.185} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]
XI.
Records of Connecticut Claims
Letters
of Evidence of Hanover, Newport, Wilkes Barre, Kingston, [ca. 1779-1799]. (1 volume,
Binding 57) {#17.186} [Description]
[Holdings]
Connecticut Settlement File of the Supreme Executive Council, 1782-1819. (1
carton, 1 box) {#17.187} [Description]
[Holdings]
Deeds of Release and Related Records for Connecticut Claims, 1787-1805. (1 carton, 1
box) {#17.188} [Description]
[Holdings]
Copied Deeds of Release-Related Records to Connecticut Claims, 1787-1805.
(2 boxes) {#17.541} [Description]
[Holdings]
Minutes of Evidence Respecting
Titles of Connecticut Claimants, [ca. 1787-1807]. (3 volumes, Bindings 71, 72,
73) {#17.189} [Description] [Holdings]
Book of Fifteen Townships (Connecticut Claimants), [ca. 1793-1807]. (1 volume,
Binding 61) {#17.190} [Description]
[Holdings] Alphabetical List of Returns
for Seventeen Townships, [ca, 1799]. (1 folder) {#17.191} [Description]
[Holdings] Schedule of Returns of Survey,
[ca. 1799]. (1 folder) {#17.192} [Description]
[Holdings] Abstracts of Releases of Connecticut
Claims, 1799-1801. (1 folder) {#17.193} [Description]
[Holdings] Docket and List of Applicants
in Certified Townships, 1799-1803. (1 folder) {#17.194} [Description]
[Holdings] Miscellaneous Drafts of Surveys
for Connecticut Claims, 1799-1819. (1 folder) {#17.195} [Description]
[Holdings] Luzerne County Release Books,1799-1822.
(2 volumes. Bindings 1 and 2) {#17.196} [Description]
[Holdings] Seventeen Townships: Claimant
Papers, [ca. 1799-1810, 1825]. (11 cartons) {#17.197} [Description]
[Holdings] Names of Releasors to John and
Richard Penn By Their Attorney Edmond Physick [ca. 1800]. (2 volumes, Bindings
A and B) {#17.198} [Description]
[Holdings] Abstracts of Deeds of Application
for Connecticut Claims, [ca. 1800]. (1 box) {#17.199} [Description]
[Holdings] Letters of Pennsylvania Claimants,
1800-1804. (2 volumes, Bindings 59 and 62) {#17.200} [Description]
[Holdings] Commissioners' Letters, 1801-1802.
(1 folder) {#17.201} [Description]
[Holdings] Luzerne Certified Townships,
[ca. 1804-1810]. (18 folders) {#17.202} [Description]
[Holdings] Journal of Commissioners, 1810
(1 volume, Binding 23) {#17.203} [Description]
[Holdings]
Seventeen Certified Townships: Original (Loose) Surveys and Certifications,
[ca. 1796-1805]. (9 flat file boxes) {#17.538} [Description]
[Holdings]
Seventeen Certified Townships: Surveys and Certifications, [ca. 1796-1805,
ca. 1895-1912]. (12 volumes) {#17.204} [Description]
[Holdings]
Certified Townships: Luzerne County, undated. (1 volume) {#17.205}
[Description] [Holdings]
[Images]
Lists of Warrantees of Connecticut Claims, undated. (1 folder) {#17.207}
[Description] [Holdings]
Classification and Valuation for the Seventeen Townships, undated. (2 volumes,
Bindings 60 and 70) {#17.208} [Description]
[Holdings]
XII.
Records of Virginia Claims
Virginia Entries, 1779-1780.
(2 volumes) (series #17.209)[Description]
[Holdings] Returns for Virginia Claimants,
1779-1920. (1 folder) {#17.210} [Description]
[Holdings] Lists of Virginia Lands Returned
as Delinquent and Sold, 1816-1820. (1 folder) {#17.211} [Description]
[Holdings]
XIII.
Records Relating to Vacant Land Law of 1792
Title Papers (Including Pre-Patent Deed Polls under 1811 Law),
1695-1836. (6 cartons) {#17.212} [Description]
[Holdings] Population
Land Company Prevention Certificates, [ca. 1792-1798]. (1 carton) {#17.213}
[Description] [Holdings]
Proof of Settlement Certificates, [ca. 1792-1865]. (4 cartons) {#17.214}
[Description] [Holdings]
Certificates of Exoneration, 1765-1856 & undated. (1 carton) {#17.215}
[Description] [Holdings]
Holland Land Company Prevention Certificates, 1798. (1 carton, 1 box) {#17.216}
[Description] [Holdings]
Deputy Surveyor's Certificates, 1756-1841 (bulk 1792-1795). (1 carton) {#17.533}
[Description] [Holdings]
XIV.
Records of Nicholson Lands
John Nicholson Office Expense
and Depreciation Accounts, 1762-1786. (1 folder) {#17.217} [Description]
[Holdings] Articles of Impeachment, 1792.
(1 folder) {#17.218} [Description]
[Holdings] John Nicholson Donation Lands
Warrant Book, 1792-1794. (1 volume) {#17.219} [Description]
[Holdings] John Nicholson Correspondence,
1792-1797. (3 folders) {#17.220} [Description]
[Holdings] Nicholson Promissory Payment
Book, 1793-1794. (1 folder) {#17.221} [Description]
[Holdings] Deed Polls for Nicholson Lands,
1793-1795. (2 folders) {#17.222} [Description]
[Holdings] John Nicholson Papers, 1795-1856.
(2 cartons) {#17.223} [Description]
[Holdings] Nicholson Lands: Commissioners'
Returns of Sale, 1797-[ca. 1845]. (1 volume) {#17.224} [Description]
[Holdings] Bonds to the Treasurer of the
Commonwealth, 1808-1842. (1 folder) {#17.225} [Description]
[Holdings] Minute Book of the Special Board
Appointed by Act of April 11, 1825, 1831-1837. (1 volume) {#17.226} [Description]
[Holdings] Joseph B. Anthony Investigative
Report on Nicholson Case, 1839. (1 folder) {#17.227} [Description]
[Holdings] Minutes of the Board of Commissioners
Constituted Under Act of April 16, 1840, 1840-1843. (1 volume) {#17.228}
[Description] [Holdings]
Deed Book for Nicholson Lands [Sold Under Act of 1840], 1840-1843. (1 volume)
{#17.229} [Description] [Holdings]
Minute Book of Nicholson's Court, 1841-1843. (1 volume) {#17.230} [Description]
[Holdings] Printed List of Warrantee Names
of the Nicholson Court, [ca. 1792-1841]. (5 volumes) {#17.231} [Description]
[Holdings] Correspondence of Nicholson Land
Commissioners, 1842. (1 box) {#17.232} [Description]
[Holdings] Agreements, 1842-1843 (1 folder)
{#17.233} [Description] [Holdings]
Docket Book of Suits in Court, undated. (1 folder) {#17. 234} [Description]
[Holdings]
XV.
Graduated Land Certificates
Commissioners'
Certificates, [ca. 1835]. (7 cartons) {#17.235} [Dsecription]
[Holdings]
Miscellaneous Surveys and Graduated
Land Certificates, 1831-1857. (4 folders) {#17.236} [Description]
[Holdings]
XVI.
Records of Town Lots
A. Philadelphia
Lots
Original Surveys for Philadelphia City
Lots and Proprietary Tracts, 1678-1800. (21 volumes) {#17.237} SERIES HAS BEEN ELIMINATED
Lotts of the 4 Streets, Philadelphia
City Lots, 1682. (1 item) {#17.238} [Description]
[Holdings] Philadelphia City Lots, 1682-1781.
(5 folders) {#17.239} [Description]
[Holdings] Philadelphia City Lots, No. 31,
1683-1740. (1 volume, Binding 65) {#17.240} [Description]
[Holdings] Miscellaneous Survey Papers for
Philadelphia Lots, 1746-1828, undated. (18 folders) {#17.241} [Description]
[Holdings] Regulations for Philadelphia
Lots. 1727-1765. (1 folder) {#17.242} [Description]
[Holdings] Philadelphia Dock Records, 1728-1790.
(1 box) {#17.243} [Description]
[Holdings]
Benjamin Eastburn's Plan of Philadelphia,
[ca. 1737-1741]. (1 item) {#17.244} SERIES HAS BEEN ELIMINATEDPlans of Philadelphia Lots Sold
at Auction, 1781-1782. (1 box) {#17.245} [Description]
[Holdings] List of Sales of Philadelphia
Lots, 1781-1788. (1 volume) {#17.246} [Description]
[Holdings] Philadelphia City Lots: Miscellaneous
Papers and Returns of Survey, 1781-1797. (1 box) {#17.247} [Description]
[Holdings] Journal of Depreciation Lands,
Philadelphia and Beaver Town Lots, November 21, 1783-March 3, 1796. (1 volume)
{#17.248} [Description] [Holdings]
Directions of Reference in the City Draft of Philadelphia Lotts, 1698, undated.
(1 folder and 1 volume, Binding 61) {#17.249} [Description]
[Holdings]
B. Proprietary Towns
Proprietary Town Plans and Surveys, [ca.
1762-1767]. (16 folders) {#17.250)[Description]
[Holdings] Proprietary Town Papers, [ca.
1762-1776 & undated] (9 folders) {#17.251} [Description]
[Holdings] A Ground Plan of Reading
in the 1750s: First Purchasers Lots as Shown by Land Office Records, undated.
(1 item) {#17.252} [Description]
[Holdings]
C. Commonwealth Towns
Sunbury, Franklin, Warren and Beaver Town
Lots and Franklin, Warren and Waterford Reserve Tracts, 1772-1776, 1794-1857.
(1 volume) {#17.253} [Description]
[Holdings] Day Book of Sales by Auction,
1785-1809. (1 volume) {#17.254} [Description]
[Holdings] Journal of Depreciation Lands,
and Philadelphia and Beaver Town Lots, November 21, 1785-March 3, 1896. (1 volume)
{#17.255} [Description] [Holdings]
Ledger Depreciation Lands and Philadelphia and Beaver Lots, 1785-1897.
(1 volume) {#17.256} [Description]
[Holdings]
Miscellaneous Records Relating to Town and Out Lots, [ca. 1752-1864]. (4 cartons)
{#17.257} [Description] [Holdings]
Allegheny Town and Out Lots,
1788-1797, 1806. (1 volume) {#17.258} [Description]
[Holdings] In and Out Lots on the Reserved
Tract Opposite Pittsburgh, 1791. (1 volume) {#17.259} [Description]
[Holdings] Beaver Town Lots, 1793, 1805,
1814, 1834, 1848. (1 volume) {#17.260} [Description]
[Holdings] Miscellaneous Records Relating
to Erie Lots, 1796-1808. (2 folders) {#17.261} [Description]
[Holdings] Erie Lots, Reserve Tracts and
Water Lots, 1796-1815. (1 volume) {#17.262} [Description]
[Holdings] Erie, Franklin, Warren and Waterford
Town and Out Lots, 1797-1809. (1 volume) {#17.263} [Description]
[Holdings] Books of Entries of Patents Issued
For In and Out Lots: Erie, Warren, Waterford and Franklin, 1800-1803. (2 volumes)
{#17.264} [Description] [Holdings]
Erie Lots, 1801-1810. (1 volume) {#17.265} [Description]
[Holdings] Journals for Erie, Franklin,
Warren and Waterford Lots, 1801-1920. (7 volumes) {#17.266} [Description]
[Holdings] Ledgers for Erie, Franklin, Warren
and Waterford Lots, 1801-1923. (4 volumes) {#17.267} [Description]
[Holdings] Irregular Lots in Warren, Franklin,
Erie, [undated]. (1 volume) {#17.268} [Description]
[Holdings]
XVII. Rent
Rolls
Rent Rolls, 1683-1776. (22 volumes in 2 boxes)
{#17.269} [Description] [Holdings]
Philadelphia Rent Roll, 1689. (1 volume) {#17.270} [Description]
[Holdings] Extract of a Rent Roll for Ye
City of Philadelphia, [ca. 1703]. (1 volume) {#17.271} [Description]
[Holdings] Quit Rent Rolls (same as Rent
Rolls, {#17.269}) Steel's Rent Roll for Philadelphia, 1731. (1 volume, Binding
66) {#17.273} [Description] [Holdings]
James Logan's Rent Roll Extracts, 1748. (1 folder) {#17.274} [Description]
[Holdings]
XVIII.
Deeds
A. Original Deeds
Miscellaneous
Deeds, 1694-1782. (4 cartons) {#17.275} [Description]
[Holdings] Unrecorded Deeds, [ca. 1700-1800].
{#17.276} [Description] [Holdings]
Copies of Recorded Deeds, 1714-1794 (3 folders) {#17.277} [Description]
[Holdings] Miscellaneous Deed Polls, 1789-1832.
(4 folders) {#17.278} [Description]
[Holdings] Commonwealth Deeds, 1816-present.
(135 cartons) {#17.279} [Description]
[Holdings] State Forestry Reserve Deeds
and Title Papers,1887-present. (41 cartons) {#17.280} [Description]
[Holdings] Game Commission Deeds, 1887-present.
(39 cartons) {#17.281} [Description]
[Holdings] B.
Deed Books
Release Book B, No. 3, [ca.
1704-1706] (1 volume){#17.282} [Description]
[Holdings] Book of Deeds Recorded, [ca.
1821-1904]. (1 volume) {#17.283} [Description]
[Holdings] Deed Books for State Institutions,
1822-1917. (3 volumes) {#17.284} [Description]
[Holdings] Record of Deeds for Penal and
Charitable Institutions, [ca. 1897]. (3 volumes) {#17.285} [Description]
[Holdings] State Forestry Reserve Deeds,
1900-present. (4 volumes) {#17.286} [Description]
[Holdings] Capitol Park Deed Book A, 1912-1921.
(1 volume) {#17.287} [Description]
[Holdings] C.
Deed Registers
Deed Register for Game
Preserves Under Act of 1919, [ca. 1919-1964]. (31 volumes) {#17.288} [Description]
[Holdings] Deed Register of the State Forestry
Reserve Property in the Department of Internal Affairs Under Act of 1919, 1919-1957.
{#17.289} [Description] [Holdings]
State Forestry Reserve Index, [ca. 1957]. (4 volumes) {#17.290} [Description]
[Holdings] Master Register of Commonwealth
Deeds, 1919-1957. (2 volumes) {#17.291} [Description]
[Holdings] Grantor Name Register for Commonwealth
Deeds, 1957-present. (4 flat boxes) {#17.292} [Description]
[Holdings] Grantor Name Register for General
State Authority Deeds, 1957-present. (1 flat Box) {#17.293} [Description]
[Holdings] Grantor List, undated. (1 volume,
Binding 144) {#17.294} [Description]
[Holdings]
XIX.
Records of the Secretary of the Land Office
An Account of the Land in Pennsylvania Granted by William Penn . . . to Several
Purchasers Within the Kingdom of England, 1681. (1 item) {#17.295} [Description]
[Holdings] An Account of the Land in Pennsylvania
Granted by William Penn . . . to Several Purchasers Within the Kingdom of England,
1682. (1 item) {#17.296} [Description]
[Holdings] Proprietary Papers, [ca. 1682-1788].
(3 boxes) {#17.297} [Description]
[Holdings] List of First Purchasers,1682-1684.
(6 pages) {#17.298} [Description]
[Holdings] Hughes's List #1,1682-1759 (1
volume){#17.299} [Description]
[Holdings] Hughes's List #2, 1682-1759.
(1 volume) {#17.300} [Description]
[Holdings]
Minutes of the Provincial Council, 1683, 1692 and1712. (1 folder) {#17.301}
[Description] [Holdings]
Warrants Peter Grovendike, 1684. (1
volume, Binding 152){#17.302} [Description]
[Holdings] General Correspondence, 1687-1853.
(60 boxes) {#17.303} [Description]
[Holdings] Miscellaneous Records 1689-1699,
1759. (1 volume, Binding 39) {#18.304} [Description]
[Holdings] London Company Papers, 1689,
1783. (1 folder) {#17.305} [Description]
[Holdings] Abstract of Lists of Warrants
for the Province and Counties, 1706-1741,1756. (1 volume){#17.306} [Description]
[Holdings] Bills of Sale, 1709. ( 1 folder){#17.307}
[Description] [Holdings]
James Logan's Correspondence, 1712-1715 & undated. (1 folder) {#17.308}
[Description] [Holdings]
James Logan's Account Papers, 1712-1733. (3 folders) {#17.309} [Description]
[Holdings] Provincial Road Records, 1712-1773.
(2 folders) {#17.311} [Description]
[Holdings]
Mortgages, Indentures and Releases, 1716-1873. (1 folder) {#17.312}
[Description] [Holdings]
Mortgages, 1703-1893. (4 boxes) {#17.539} [Description]
[Holdings]
Leases, 1722-1734. (2 folders)
{#17.313} [Description] [Holdings]
Indentures to William Penn's Heirs, 1732-1760. (5 folders) {#17.314}
[Description] [Holdings]
William Allen's Papers, 1733-1753 & undated. (1 folder) {#17.315}
[Description] [Holdings]
Richard Peter's Charge on Lands, 1734-1741. (1 volume) {#17.316} [Description]
[Holdings]
Miscellaneous Conveyances, Bonds,
Leases, and Deed Polls [ca. 1734-1818]. (1 box) {#17.318} [Description]
[Holdings] Blunston Licenses: A Record of
Licenses Granted to Sundry Persons to Settle and Take Up Land on the West Side
of Susquehanna River, [ca. 1736]. (1 folder) {#17.319} [Description]
[Holdings] Correspondence Relating to Conestoga
Manor Land, 1737-1765. (1 folder) {#17.320} [Description]
[Holdings] Records of 1761 Land Lottery,
1737-1767. (1 folder) {#17.321} [Description]
[Holdings] William Peters Family Papers,
1739-1754. (1 box) {#17.322} [Description]
[Holdings] Tickets Issued by Richard Peters,
1740-1756. (1 box) {#17.323} [Description]
[Holdings]
List of Surveys in the Rejected File,[ca.1742-1812]. (1 volume, Binding 87).
{#17.324} [Description] [Holdings]
[Images]
Miscellaneous Tickets, 1783-1818. (1 carton) {#17.325} [Description]
[Holdings] Provincial Secretary's Record
of Receipts, 1750-1756. (3 folders) {#17.326} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrants to Affix Great Seal
to Patents, 1753-1776. (1 folder) {#17.327} [Description]
[Holdings] Baynton and Wharton Papers, [ca.1757].
(1 folder) {#17.328} [Description]
[Holdings]
Transcripts of Markham's Papers
Received and Account for the Period [ca. 1700], [ca. 1759]. (1 volume, Binding
61) {#17.329} [Description] [Holdings]
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1774-1850. (1 box) {#17.330} [Description]
[Holdings]
Miscellaneous Loose Records and Related Index, 1681-1839, undated. (1 carton,
2 boxes, 5 folders) {#17.317} [Description]
[Holdings]
Miscellaneous Northumberland
Warrants, 1775-1870. (1 folder) {#17.331} [Description]
[Holdings] Transmittals of Warrants, 1781-1809.
(5 boxes) {#17.332} [Description]
[Holdings] Abraham Coates Estate Papers,
1782. (1 volume, Binding 142) {#17.333} [Description]
[Holdings] Waste Book Containing Sales by
Auction of Depreciation Lands, City Lots, Reserved Tracts, Islands, 1785-1809.
(1 volume) {#17.334} [Description]
[Holdings] Fee Books of the Secretary of
the Land Office, 1785-1838. (2 boxes) {#17.335} [Description]
[Holdings] Papers Relating to Roads and
Rivers, 1791-1800. (1 carton) {#17.336} [Description]
[Holdings] Register of the Lands of the
Asylum Company, 1793-1795 (1 volume) {#17.337} [Description]
[Holdings] Westmoreland County Conveyances,
1794-1795. (2 folders) {#17.338} [Description]
[Holdings]
Reports of the Secretary of the Land Office, 1789-1824. (1 box, 1 folder)
{#17.339} [Description] [Holdings]
Secretary of the Land Office
Letter Books, 1800-1811, 1838-1839 and ca. 1855 (2 volumes) {#17.340} [Description]
[Holdings] Transmittals of Patents, 1803-1809.
(1 folder) {#17.341} [Description]
[Holdings] Mortgage Books, 1805-1834 (2
volumes) {#17.342} [Description]
[Holdings] Papers
Relating to the Melish Maps, 1817-1826. (2 Boxes) {#17.343} [Description]
[Holdings] [Melish-Whiteside
Maps - Series #17.534] Unpatented Land Lists, 1820-1887. (5 boxes) {#17.344}
[Description] [Holdings]
Unpatented Land Tickets, 1822-1827. (3 boxes) {#17. 345)[Description]
[Holdings]
Indexes to Volumes in the Secretary's Office, [ca. 1837-1838 & undated]
(5 volumes) {#17.346} [Description]
[Holdings]
Land Office Resolutions and Procedures, 1765-1864. (1 folder) {#17.542}
[Description] [Holdings]
List of Papers Transferred to
the State of Delaware, 1801 (1 volume, Binding 141) {#17.536} [Description]
[Holdings]
List of Lands Transferred to the State of Delaware, 1801 (1 volume, Binding
170) {#17.537} [Description]
[Holdings]
XX.
Records of the Office of Receiver General
Abstracts of Lists of Warrants, 1706-1741. (1 volume) {#17.347} [Description]
[Holdings] Day Books, 1720-1779, 1781-1809.
(6 cartons) {#17.348} [Description]
[Holdings] Receiver General Certificates,
[ca. 1744-1853 & undated]. (1 box) {#17.349} [Description]
[Holdings] Receiver General Receipts, 1745-1790.
(4 folders) {#17.350} [Description]
[Holdings] List of Goods Sold or Cash Received,
March 15-June 29, 1774. (1 volume) {#17.351} [Description]
[Holdings] Certificates of Indebtedness,
1780. (1 box) {#17.352} [Description]
[Holdings] Miscellaneous Records of Depreciation
and Nicholson Lands, 1781-1807. (9 folders) {#17.353} [Description]
[Holdings] Land Warrant and Patent Receipts,
1781-1809. (8 cartons) {#17.354} [Description]
[Holdings]
Miscellaneous Receiver General
and Treasurer Receipts, 1784-1853. (9 folders) {#17.355} [Description]
[Holdings] New Loan Book of David Rittenhouse,
1783, 1787. (1 volume, Binding 130) {#17.356} [Description]
[Holdings] Fee Book Blotters of the Receiver
General, 1784-1955. (13 volumes) {#17.357} [Description]
[Holdings] Certificates of Receipt of Purchase
Money, 1786-1809. (5 cartons) {#17.358} [Description]
[Holdings] List of Monies Received by Francis
Johnston, Esq., Late Receiver General, 1790-1794. (2 volumes) {#17.359}
[Description] [Holdings]
Warrant Receipts for Settlement with John Penn, 1791-1792. (1 folder) {#17.360}
[Description] [Holdings]
Copies of Receiver General Reports, 1793. (1 folder) {#17.361} [Description]
[Holdings] Receiver General Certificate
Book, 1796-1805. (1 folder) {#17.362} [Description]
[Holdings]
XXI.
Records of the Surveyor General
William
Markham's Book, 1682-1689. (1 volume, Binding 17) {#17.363} [Description]
[Holdings] Deputy Surveyors' Order Book,
1682-1693. (1 volume) {#17.364} [Description]
[Holdings] General Correspondence, 1682-1873
& undated. (2 boxes) {#17.365} [Description]
[Holdings] Surveyor General's Dossier, [ca.
1689-1830]. (1 carton, 1 box) {#17.366} [Description]
[Holdings] Orders to Survey for Proprietors
and Related Papers, [ca. 1690-1774]. (2 folders) {#17.367} [Description]
[Holdings] Journals, 1701-1710, 1712-1733,
1781-1955. (46 volumes) {#17.368} [Description]
[Holdings] Ledgers, 1701-1710, 1712-1732,
1781-1955. (54 volumes) {#17.369} [Description]
[Holdings] Surveyor General's Copies of
Warrants, 1702-1772. (1 folder) {#17.370} [Description]
[Holdings]
Deputy Surveyors' Duplicate Commissions and Instructions, 1713-1848. (3 cartons,
1 box) {#17.371} [Description]
[Holdings]
Lists of Deputy Surveyors, 1713-1850. (2 volumes, 2 folders) {#17.372}
[Description] [Holdings]
Oaths of Office for County Surveyors,
1850-1916. (2 cartons, 1 box) {#17.529}[Description]
[Holdings]
Deputy Surveyors' Index,
1713-1850. (1 box) {#17.373} [Description]
[Holdings]
Miscellaneous Survey Drafts,
1720-1810. (1 box) {#17.374} [Description]
[Holdings]
Disputed Land Papers, 1730-1792.
(4 folders) {#17.375} [Description]
[Holdings]
Surveyor General Certificates,
1734-1872. (1 box) {#17.376} [Description]
[Holdings]
Miscellaneous Deputy Surveyor Records, 1735-1848. (1 box, 2 cartons, 2 folders)
{#17.377} [Description] [Holdings]
Orders to Survey for Use of Proprietaries,
1746. (1 volume, Binding 120) {#17.378} [Description]
[Holdings] Letter Books of the Surveyor
General, 1762-1764, 1810-1821. (2 volumes) {#17.379} [Description]
[Holdings] Deputy and County Surveyors'
Lists of Returns, 1762-1887. (9 volumes) {#17.380} [Description]
[Holdings] Rough Drafts of Proprietary Surveys,
1767, undated. (3 folders) {#17.381} [Description]
[Holdings] Depositions, 1767-1823. (1 folder)
{#17.382} [Description] [Holdings]
Certificates of Acceptance of Surveys, 1770, 1774. (6 folders) {#17.383}
[Description] [Holdings]
Job Chillaway Papers for Wyalusing, 1772-1774. (1 folder) {#17.384}
[Description] [Holdings]
Purchase Vouchers, 1784-1949. (59 cartons) {#17.385} [Description]
[Holdings] Surveyor General's Fee Books,
1789-1855, 1860-1870. (16 volumes) {#17.386} [Description]
[Holdings] Surveyor General's Letter Book,
1790-1808. (1 volume) {#17.387} [Description]
[Holdings] Deputy Surveyors' Assigned to
Districts, 1791-1799. (1 volume, Binding 167) {#17.388} [Description]
[Holdings] Deputy Surveyors' Account Ledger,
1799-1827. (1 volume) {#17.389} [Description]
[Holdings]
Petitions for Appointment of Deputy Surveyors, [ca. 1752-ca. 1848]. (3 cartons,
1 box) {#17.390} [Description]
[Holdings]
Field Notes, [ca. 1825]. (3 folders)
{#17.391} [Description] [Holdings]
County Surveyors Election Returns and Oaths, 1850-[ca.1896]. (124 folders)
{#17.392} [Description] [Holdings]
Lists of County Surveyors, 1850-1957. (2 volumes) {#17.393} [Description]
[Holdings] Records Relating to Commonwealth
Boundaries, 1850-1987. (13 cartons){#17.394} [Description]
[Holdings] Oaths of Commissioners, 1853-1859.
(1 box) {#17.395} [Description]
[Holdings] List of Returns Returned to the
County Surveyors for Correction, 1860-1926. (1 volume) {#17.396} [Description]
[Holdings] Minute Book of Agricultural Land,
[ca. 1862]. (1 volume) {#17.397} [Description]
[Holdings] Proof of Settlement Certificates,
1863-1864. (1 folder) {#17.398} [Description]
[Holdings] Applications for and Releases
of Liens, [ca. 1864]. (44 folders) {#17.399} [Description]
[Holdings] Lien Dockets, 1864-1868. (4 volumes)
{#17.400} [Description] [Holdings]
Releases Under Act of 15 April 1869,1869-1875. (2 volumes, Bindings 82
and 83) {#17.401} [Description]
[Holdings]
Surveyor General's Letter Press Books, 1870-1875. (6 volumes) {#17.402}
[Description] [Holdings]
XXII.
Records of the Board of Property
Appointments for Recovery of Unpaid Money Acts, 1820-1825. (4 folders) {#17.540}
[Description] [Holdings]
Board of Property Petitions, 1682-1903 & undated. (4 cartons) {#17.403} [Description]
[Holdings] Board of Property Papers, 1682-1957.
(18 cartons, 2 folios) {#17.404} [Description]
[Holdings] Minutes of the Commissioners
of Property, Books C, D, E, F, G, H and I, 1685-1691. (5 volumes, Bindings 14,
20, 21, 22, 23) {#17.405} [Description]
[Holdings] Caveats, 1700-1910. (7 cartons)
{#17.406} [Description] [Holdings]
Board of Property Depositions, 1717-1867. (5 cartons) {#17.407} [Description]
[Holdings] Index to Caveat Books, 1748-1792.
(2 volumes, Bindings 1 and 8) {#17.408} [Description]
[Holdings] Caveat Books No. 5-18, 1769-1940.
(13 volumes) {#17.409} [Description]
[Holdings] Caveat Book, 1771-1784. (1 volume,
Binding 4) {#17.410} [Description]
[Holdings]
Miscellaneous Loose Minutes and Related Papers, 1774-1838. (1 carton, 1 box,
2 folders) {#17.411} [Description]
[Holdings]
Minute Books, 1765-1980. (14
volumes) {#17.412} [Description]
[Holdings] Court Summons and Miscellaneous
Ejectment Records, 1783-1846. (1 folder) {#17.413} [Description]
[Holdings] Board of Property Docket, 1808-1952.
(2 volumes) {#17.414} [Description]
[Holdings] Board of Property Register, 1809-1821.
(1 volume) {#17.415} [Description]
[Holdings] Case Files,
1947-1988. [*it continues in RG-71] (13 cartons) {#17.535}
[unprocessed accessions #1931, #3422] [Description]
[Holdings]
XXIII.
Records of the Master of Rolls
Letters
of Attorney, D-2, 1684-1691 (1 volume, Binding 4) {#17.416} [Description]
[Holdings] Minute Book F No. 6, 1693-1695
(1 volume) {#17.417} [Description]
[Holdings] Letters of Attorney, Bills, Bonds,
Releases, D-2 (No. 4), 1697-1702 (2 volumes) {#17.418} [Description]
[Holdings] Letters of Attorney, 1698-1812
(19 volumes) {#17.419} [Description]
[Holdings] Commission Books, 1733-1809.
(6 volumes) {#17.143} [Description]
[Holdings] Index to Treason Proclamations
in Commission Book No. 1, 1785 (1 volume) {#17.420} [Description]
[Holdings]
XXIV.
Department of Internal Affairs Era Records
Day Book, 1874-1877. (1 volume) {#17.421} [Description]
[Holdings] Record Book of Magnetic Declination,
1887-1888. (1 volume) {#17.422} [Description]
[Holdings] Cash Book. 1887-1899. (1 volume)
{#17.423} [Description] [Holdings]
Record Book of Surveys Removed for Copying, 1895-1897. (3 volumes) {#17.424}
[Description] [Holdings]
Returns of Receipts for Purchase Money and Fees, 1900-1923. (4 folders) {#17.425}
[Description] [Holdings]
Log of Drafts of Surveys Removed from File for Copying, 1903. (1 volume)
{#17.426} [Description] [Holdings]
Applications for Patents for Erie Water Lots, 1905. (1 folder) {#17.427}
[Description] [Holdings]
Logs of Applications for Patents, 1909-1962. (7 volumes) {#17.428}
[Description] [Holdings]
Applications for Release of Liens and Mortgages, 1911-1946. (1 folder) {#17.429}
[Description] [Holdings]
Orders for Patent Copies, 1919-1934. (2 volumes) {#17.430} [Description]
[Holdings] Field Notebooks, [ca. 1920-1945.
Undated]. (2 boxes) {#17.523} [Description]
[Holdings] Copies of Surveys of Tracts Purchased
by Game Commission, 1921-1935. (1 folder) {#17.431} [Description]
[Holdings] Copies of Surveys of Tracts Purchased
by Department of Forests and Waters, 1931-1932. (1 folder) {#17.432} [Description]
[Holdings] Records Inventory of the Land
Office Bureau, 1932-1934. (1 folio) {#17.433} [Description]
[Holdings] Water and Power Resources Board
Permits, 1932-1937) {#17.434} [Description]
[Holdings] Public Service Commission Permits,
1934. (1 folder) {#17.435} [Description]
[Holdings] Department of Internal Affairs
Bulletins and Publications, 1936-1968. (3 boxes) {#17.436} [Description]
[Holdings] R.J. Houpt Reference File. [ca.
1950-1968, undated]. (2 cartons) {#17.437} [Description]
[Holdings] Manuscript Material for Mason
and Dixon Booklet, 1960-1962, undated. (1 carton) {#17.438} [Description]
[Holdings] Hubertis Cummings' Biographical
File on Surveyor Generals, [ca. 1961, undated]. {#17.439} [Description]
[Holdings] Evidence of Land Acquisition
or Disposition, 1965-1968. (5 folders) {#17.524} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrant and Survey Search Sheets,
[undated]. (2 cartons) {#17.525} [Holdings]
Land Office Historical Data Index Cards, undated (2 card boxes) {#17.526}
[Description] [Holdings]
Lamination Project Photographs and Related Material, circa 1960s (1 box) {#17.544} [Description] [Holdings]
XXV.
Records of the Board of Canal Commissioners [Images
of Published Guide]
Accounts
and Receipts of the Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Railroad Company, 1840-1842, 1845.
(1 box) {#17.440} [Description]
[Holdings] Canal Survey Accounts, 1816-1818,
1823-1830. (1 box) {#17.441} [Description]
[Holdings] Collectors' and Supervisor' Reports,
1830-1850. (5 boxes) {#17.442} [Description]
[Holdings] Collector's Register of Allegheny
Portage Railroad Cargo and Passengers, 1836. (1 volume) {#17.443} [Description]
[Holdings] Collector's Register of Columbia
and Philadelphia Railroad Cargo and Passengers, 1838. (1 volume) {#17.444}
[Description] [Holdings]
Composite Map of the Old Allegheny Portage Railroad, New Allegheny Portage
Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad, 1854, 1902. (1 folder) {#17.445} [Description]
[Holdings] Damage Claim Records, 1826-1861.
(4 boxes) {#17.446} [Description]
[Holdings] Engineering Records, 1825-1852.
(2 boxes) {#17.447} [Description]
[Holdings] Erie Extension Canal Map, undated.
(1 folder) {#17.448} [Description]
[Holdings] General Correspondence, Reports,
and Surveys, and Related Records, 1816-1860. (4 boxes) {#17.449} [Description]
[Holdings] General File, 1823-1854. (2 boxes)
{#17.450} [Description] [Holdings]
Indenture for the Sale of the Schuylkill Bridge and Inclined Plane to the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, 1850. (1 folder) {#17.451} [Description]
[Holdings]
Map Books, 1810-1881, undated.
(52 folders) {#17.452} [Description]
[Holdings] [Images]Minute Books of the Board of
Canal Commissioners, 1825-1859. (7 boxes) {#17.453} [Description]
[Holdings] Minute Books and Minutes (Rough
Copies), 1844-1858. (2 boxes) {#17.454} [Description]
[Holdings] Miscellaneous Accounts, 1826-1858.
(7 Boxes) {#17.455} [Description]
[Holdings] Ohio River Survey Book, 1882.
(1 volume) {#17.456} [Description]
[Holdings] Pennsylvania Canal and Railroad
Valuation Book, 1827-1859. (1 volume) {#17.457} [Description]
[Holdings] Pennsylvania Railroad Maps for
the Western, Juniata, Eastern, Susquehanna and West Branch Divisions, undated.
(3 folders) {#17.458} [Description]
[Holdings] Record of Costs for the West
Branch Division, Tangascootack Extension, 1836-1838. (1 volume) {#17.459}
[Description] [Holdings]
Record of the Amount of Repairs and Damages on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
1836-1838. (1 volume) {#17.460} [Description]
[Holdings] Record of the Amount of Repairs
and Damages on the Pennsylvania Canal, 1836-1838. (1 volume) {#17.461}
[Description] [Holdings]
Reports and Field Notes of the Pennsylvania Canal Company, 1867-1912.
(2 boxes) {#17.462} [Description]
[Holdings] Reports and Miscellaneous Records
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Canal Department, 1857, 1863, 1865-1867.
(1 folder) {#17.463} [Description]
[Holdings] Reports and Resolutions, 1819-1858.
(2 boxes) {#17.464} [Description]
[Holdings] Research and Statistical Reports,
1826-1827, 1835. (2 boxes) {#17.465} [Description]
[Holdings] Warrants, 1826-1839. (1 box)
{#17.466} [Description] [Holdings]
Allegheny Portage Railroad
Check
Rolls, Work Estimates, Receipts and Miscellaneous Accounts, 1830-1860. (35 boxes)
{#17.467} [Description] [Holdings]
Contracts, 1851-1855. (6 volumes) {#17.468} [Description]
[Holdings] Damage Claims, 1831-1868. (10
volumes) {#17.469} [Description]
[Holdings] Reports and Miscellaneous Documents,
1829-1857. (7 volumes) {#17.470} [Description]
[Holdings] Beaver Division
Check Rolls, Work Estimates, Receipts and Miscellaneous Accounts,
1831-1846. (4 boxes) {#17.471} [Description]
[Holdings] Contracts, 1831-1834. (2 volumes)
{#17.472} [Description] [Holdings]
Damage Claims, 1829-1843. (2 volumes) {#17.473} [Description]
[Holdings] Reports and Miscellaneous Documents,
1829-1843. (2 volumes) {#17.474} [Description]
[Holdings] Columbia
and Philadelphia Railroad
Check Rolls, Work Estimates, Receipts and
Miscellaneous Accounts, 1827-1860. (84 boxes) {#17.475} [Description]
[Holdings] Contracts, 1829-1851. (7 volumes)
{#17.476} [Description] [Holdings]
Damage Claims, 1832-1857. (18 volumes) {#17.477} [Description]
[Holdings] Reports and Miscellaneous Documents,
1827-1858. (11 volumes) {#17.478} [Description]
[Holdings] Delaware Division
Check Rolls, Work Estimates, Receipts and Miscellaneous Accounts,
1826-1860. (24 boxes) {#17.479} [Description]
[Holdings] Contracts, 1828-1855. (2 volumes)
{#17.480} [Description] [Holdings]
Damage Claims, 1827-1856. (4 volumes) {#17.481} [Description]
[Holdings] Minute Books, 1826-1858. (2 volumes)
{#17.482} [Description] [Holdings]
Proceedings Regarding Connection to Lehigh Canal, 1829-1856. (2 volumes) {#17.483}
[Description] [Holdings]
Reports and Miscellaneous Documents, 1827-1856. (7 volumes) {#17.484}
[Description] [Holdings]
Eastern Division
Check Rolls, Work Estimates,
Receipts and Miscellaneous Accounts, 1827-1859. (22 boxes) {#17.485} [Description]
[Holdings] Contracts, 1826-1858. (5 volumes)
{#17.486} [Description] [Holdings]
Damage Claims, 1826-1858. (4 volumes) {#17.487} [Description]
[Holdings] Reports and Miscellaneous Documents,
1826-1858. (5 volumes) {#17.488} [Description]
[Holdings] Erie Extension
Canal
Check Rolls, Work Estimates, Receipts and Miscellaneous Accounts,
1836-1844. (5 boxes) {#17.489} [Description]
[Holdings] Contracts, 1836-1847. (7 volumes)
{#17.490} [Description] [Holdings]
Damage Claims, 1836-1847. (2 volumes) {#17.491} [Description]
[Holdings] Reports and Miscellaneous Documents,
1836-1847. (2 volumes) {#17.492} [Description]
[Holdings] French Creek Division
Check Rolls, Work Estimates, Receipts and Miscellaneous Accounts,
1826-1846. (9 boxes) {#17.493} [Description]
[Holdings] Contracts, 1833-1848. (3 volumes)
{#17.494} [Description] [Holdings]
Damage Claims, 1833-1848. (5 volumes) {#17.495} [Description]
[Holdings] Reports and Miscellaneous Documents,
1826-1848. (3 volumes) {#17.496} [Description]
[Holdings] Gettysburg
Railroad
Contracts, 1833-1838. (1 volume) {#17.497} [Description]
[Holdings] Damage Claims, 1833-1836. (1
volume) {#17.498} [Description]
[Holdings] Work Estimates, Receipts and
Miscellaneous Accounts, 1836-1847. (2 boxes) {#17.499} [Description]
[Holdings] Juniata Division
Check Rolls, Work Estimates, Receipts and Miscellaneous Accounts,
1827-1857. (48 boxes) {#17.500} [Description]
[Holdings] Contracts, 1828-1860. (8 volumes)
{#17.501} [Description] [Holdings]
Damage Claims, 1828-1860. (10 volumes) {#17.502} [Description]
[Holdings] Reports and Miscellaneous Documents,
1824-1858. (7 volumes) {#17.503} [Description]
[Holdings] North Branch Division
Check Rolls, Work Estimates, Receipts and Miscellaneous Accounts,
1828-1854. (18 boxes) {#17.504} [Description]
[Holdings] Contracts, 1828-1858. (12 volumes)
{#17.505} [Description] [Holdings]
Damage Claims, 1828-1858. (6 volumes) {#17.506} [Description]
[Holdings] Reports and Miscellaneous Documents,
1828-1858. (9 volumes) {#17.507} [Description]
[Holdings] Susquehanna Division
Check Rolls, Work Estimates, Receipts and Miscellaneous Accounts,
1827-1858. (21 boxes) {#17.508} [Description]
[Holdings] Contracts, 1827-1858. (4 volumes)
{#17.509} [Description] [Holdings]
Damage Claims, 1829-1855. (2 volumes) {#17.510} [Description]
[Holdings] Reports and Miscellaneous Documents,
1828-1858. (4 volumes) {#17.511} [Description]
[Holdings] West Branch Division
Check Rolls, Work Estimates, Receipts and Miscellaneous Accounts,
1829-1858. (21 boxes) {#17.512} [Description]
[Holdings] Contracts, 1828-1857. (7 volumes)
{#17.513} [Description] [Holdings]
Damage Claims, 1829-1857. (7 volumes) {#17.514} [Description]
[Holdings] Reports and Miscellaneous Documents,
1829-1857. (4 volumes) {#17.515} [Description]
[Holdings] Western Division
Check Rolls, Work Estimates, Receipts and Miscellaneous Accounts,
1826-1857. (24 boxes) {#17.516} [Descripiton]
[Holdings] Contracts, 1826-1859. (7 volumes)
{#17.517} [Description] [Holdings]
Damage Claims, 1826-1859. (7 volumes) {#17.518} [Description]
[Holdings] Reports and Miscellaneous Documents,
1825-1859. (7 volumes) {#17.519} [Description]
[Holdings] Wiconisco Canal
Engineers Accounts, Check Rolls, Daybook, Correspondence and Damage
Claims, 1837-1841. (3 folders & 1 volume) {#17.520} [Description]
[Holdings] Work Estimates, Receipts and
Miscellaneous Accounts, 1838-1846. (3 folders) {#17.521} [Description]
[Holdings]