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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.

  1. Start with the patent indexes.
  2. 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.
  3. Make note of the series and volume, date of patent, page number, and date to order patent from the Archives.
  4. If the warrant date was before 1733, you need to check the Old Philadelphia Old Rights Register
Number
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.

Images of Survey Bk D Vol 75

Copied Survey Book D Vol 75 page 68

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