Pennsylvania Archives
John Test Warrants Philadelphia Lots
Land Records at Pennsylvania State Archives
Philadelphia Old Rights Book
Wm Penn owned the land.
A settler would apply for land.
A warrant to authorize a survey would be issue.
A survey would be done.
The applicatant would pay for the land.
A patent would be issued transfering the land to the settler.
Record of the transfer, if recorded, would be at the Recorder of Deeds at the county level.
- Start with the patent indexes.
- Each listing includes series and volumne, date of patent, page number, patentee name, area in acres and perches, name of warrantee, name of tract, date of warrant, and county.
- Make note of the series and volume, date of patent, page number, and date to order patent from the Archives.
- If the warrant date was before 1733, you need to check the Old Philadelphia Old Rights Register
Purchaser
Kind of Paper: Warrant Acres: City Lot
Date of Warrant
No Date for survey
Last three columns Survey Records Bk Vol Page
No. 41 John Test Warrant City Lot Date of Warrant: January 29, 1683 Survey Records Bk D Vol 75 p. 63
No. 42 John Test Warrant City Lot Date of Warrant: November 13, 1684 Survey Records Bk D Vol 75 p. 69
Kris,
Thank you for all the work you've done here. You've enabled me to find the warrant and survery listings of a couple of my ancestor's purchases.
My ancestor is listed in the Philadelphia Old Rights Index. That index lists two warrants for a survey recorded in Survey Record Book D, Vol. 75, pages 68 and 69. I found these and discovered them to be copies made in 1909.
Can I assume that if I ordered copies from the State Archives that I would get a copy of the (microfilmed) original record made in 1683 and 1684?
Secondly, I want to find/order a copy of the patents. So, do I need the date of the patent and the Vol. Book an page numbers? I take it that these are not identical to the survey vol bk and page numbers.
