Chester Co. Township Warrantee Maps | |
Township | Price |
East Coventry (original surveys, with errors, by Samuel Lightfoot; email Tri-County Historic Research Associates at tchra@ptd.net for copies) | $10.00 (lovely map printed on parchment) |
North Coventry (original surveys, with errors, by Samuel Lightfoot; email Tri-County Historic Research Associates at tchra@ptd.net for copies) | $10.00 (lovely map printed on parchment) |
South Coventry (original surveys, with errors, by Samuel Lightfoot; email Tri-County Historic Research Associates at tchra@ptd.net for copies) | $10.00 (lovely map printed on parchment) |
East Pikeland | $10.00 |
West Pikeland | $10.00 |
East Vincent | $10.00 |
West Vincent | $10.00 |
Warwick (overlaps into Berks and Lancaster Counties) | $10.00 |
Upper Uwchlan | $10.00 |
Chester Co. Early Landowner Books | |
Township | Price |
30,000 acres, History of the Vincents and the Pikelands | $20.00 (warrantee maps must be ordered separately, but maps of leases 1744-1747 are included) |
Reading Furnace, 1736 | $15.00 (small warrantee map of this area is included) |
Treasures of the Upper French Creek, Warwick Township | $20.00 (small warrantee maps are included) |
Coventry the Skool Kill District. Basic History of the Three Coventry Townships, 1700-1850 | $30.00 (small, corrected Lightfoot warrantee maps of the three Coventrys are included in the book) |
The Upper Uwchlan, A Place Betwixt and Between | $25.00 (available from the Upper Uwchlan Township Historic Commission) |
Additional warrantee maps may appear in the Churchman Papers at the society. Also scroll down on the Chester County Historical Society's site to its "Museum Shop" to find other county resources that may be of interest.
Another possible source of maps for Chester Co. is Tri-County Heritage Society at maintains a library (open on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.) at 4979 Twin Valley Rd., Elverson, PA 19520 (mailing address: P.O. Box 352, Morgantown, PA 19543; 610/286-7477). Pamela Shenk, proprietor, and Barbara Rutz, mapping designer, will provide copies of maps made for previous clients, as well as trace property profiles for any land in southeast Pennsylvania from the current owner to the earliest patentee. They can be reached by email at tchs@dejazzd.com.
The final source for maps and land documents is Chester County Archives & Records Services , 601 Westtown Rd., Suite 080, P.O. Box 2747, West Chester, PA 19380-0990 (Phone: 610/344-6760).