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Cumberland County Warrantee Maps by Eschenmann and Barner

Our goal at Ancestor Tracks is to publish maps and land ownership information allowing genealogy 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. Unfortunately, Pennsylvania only platted one township within Cumberland County.

Researchers are indeed fortunate, however, that Hayes R. Eschenmann began to systematically research and map the tracts of the earliest landowners of the county, aligning their surveys with USGS topographic quadrandle maps. He published volumes for four quadrangles before passing, and his project has been taken up by his editor, Paul Barner, who has completed three additional volumes.

The 7 volumes of First Families of Cumberland County have been published, and they may be ordered for $15 each plus shipping from the Cumberland County Historical Society (click on "Publications") as follows:

Volume I: Shippensburg Quadrangle, including lands in both Cumberland and Franklin Counties.
Volume II: Newburg Quadrangle, which includes land in Cumberland, Perry, and Franklin Counties.
Volume III: Newville Quadrangle
Volume IV: Walnut Bottom Quadrangle, both for land only in Cumberland County
Volume V: Plainfield, with lands in Cumberland County.
Volume VI: Andersonburg (Doubling Gap) & Landisburg (McClure's Gap) showing lands in Cumberland County only.
Volume VII: Dickinson Quadrangle with lands in Cumberland and Adams County

Additionally, the single Township Warrantee Map completed by the Land Office of Pennsylvania may be ordered from:

Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission
Pennsylvania State Archives
350 North Street
Harrisburg, PA 17120-0090
(717) 783-3281

The current price for the 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.

Cumberland Co. Township Warrantee Maps
Township Price
East Pennsboro$10.00