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=== Indexes of Colonial and State Records === | === Indexes of Colonial and State Records === | ||
If one of your ancestors could have received a warrant to have land surveyed between 1682 and 1898, but you don't know in what county, see Pennsylvania Archives, 3d series. Volumes 1-4 and 24-26 include land records. The surname indexes are in volumes 27-30 (Family History Library film 824436-38). | If one of your ancestors could have received a warrant to have land surveyed between 1682 and 1898, but you don't know in what county, see Pennsylvania Archives, 3d series. Volumes 1-4 and 24-26 include land records. The surname indexes are in volumes 27-30 (Family History Library film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=824436 824436]-38). | ||
For additional assistance in identifying the county, search Allen Weinberg and Thomas E. Slattery, ''Warrants and Surveys of the Province of Pennsylvania Including the Three Lower Counties, 1759'' (1965, Reprint, Knightstown, Indiana: Bookmark, 1975; Family History Library book 974.8 A1 no. 130; films 982105 item 7 and 1036747 item 2). This source indexes warrants by county. Most warrants listed were issued for the period 1682-1759. This book also indexes ''Pennsylvania, Provincial Assembly, Warrants and Surveys of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1682-1759: Transcribed from the Records of the Surveyor General's and Proprietaries Secretary's Offices'' by John Hughes, Recorder of Warrants and Surveys under the Act of Assembly July 7, 1759, Original manuscripts, 9 vols. (Philadelphia, PA: Department of Records, 1957; Family History Library films 981096-97). These films are difficult to read. | For additional assistance in identifying the county, search Allen Weinberg and Thomas E. Slattery, ''Warrants and Surveys of the Province of Pennsylvania Including the Three Lower Counties, 1759'' (1965, Reprint, Knightstown, Indiana: Bookmark, 1975; Family History Library book 974.8 A1 no. 130; films 982105 item 7 and 1036747 item 2). This source indexes warrants by county. Most warrants listed were issued for the period 1682-1759. This book also indexes ''Pennsylvania, Provincial Assembly, Warrants and Surveys of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1682-1759: Transcribed from the Records of the Surveyor General's and Proprietaries Secretary's Offices'' by John Hughes, Recorder of Warrants and Surveys under the Act of Assembly July 7, 1759, Original manuscripts, 9 vols. (Philadelphia, PA: Department of Records, 1957; Family History Library films 981096-97). These films are difficult to read. | ||
=== County Records === | === County Records === | ||