Although the state draftsmen working on the project to plat all of the earliest surveys on township maps never got around to mapping Delaware County, we are fortunate that Benjamin H. Smith took it upon himself to produce an atlas of the earliest patents in 1880. Many of these patents are dated before 1700. We are posting images of the copy of the atlas which is in the Library of Congress with their permission. Further information about these tracts may be gleaned from the Original Purchases Register and the Old Rights Registers contained on our CD, First Landowners of PA: Colonial and State Warrant Registers in the PA Archives, Harrisburg, 1682-ca 1940.

ALSO, click on the map of Delaware County above to go to the Delaware County PAGenWeb map site, where you will find some excellent maps of Delaware Co.