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Beaver County Landowner Map, 1860
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Our goal at Ancestor Tracks is to publish maps and land ownership information allowing researchers to place more precisely the locations where our ancestors lived. The state of Pennsylvania began platting the exact metes-and-bounds tracts of the earliest landowners, township-by-township, starting in 1907, but the Land Office only completed about 1/3 of the state before the project ended. Beaver County, fortunately, is one of the counties whose earliest landowners were completely platted. We intend to index all of the townships and publish a book covering Beaver County in 2009. In the meantime, scroll to the bottom of this page for information about how to order the Township Warrantee Maps from the State Archives in Harrisburg. We are posting images from Map of Lawrence and Beaver Counties from Actual Surveys by N.S. Ames which was published in 1860. This map is located in the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. We hope that it will be a useful tool for locating your Beaver County families when coupled with the 1860 census. Once you click on an image and it is on your screen, it can usually be enlarged by clicking on the image, and it may be saved to your computer by right-clicking and selecting "Save Image As..." Beaver County was created in 1800 from Allegheny and Washington Counties. Thus, all of these counties should be checked for deeds and wills, etc. 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 Beaver, Allegheny or Washington County Registers contained on our CD, First Landowners of PA: Colonial and State Warrant Registers in the PA Archives, Harrisburg, 1682-ca 1940. This area was part of the Depreciation Land which was given to Revolutionary War soldiers, so locating an ancestor here definitely warrants further research into Revolutionary War records.
As mentioned above, Ancestor Tracks intends to transcribe the information on the Township Warrantee Maps for this county in the future. In the meantime, the following Township Warrantee Maps may be ordered from:
Pennsylvania State Archives 350 North Street Harrisburg, PA 17120-0090 (717) 783-3281 The current price for each map is shown. Postage and handling is additional: $1.00 for orders up to $5.00; $2.50 for orders from $5.01-$20.00; $5.00 for orders $20.01-$100.00; $10.00 for orders over $100.00. Checks should be made out to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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