Washington Co., PA Land Plats

Allen Twp.[1]

WARRANTEE NAME

TRACT NAME

SIZE

WARRANT DATE

SURVEY DATE

PATENT DATE

PATENT BOOK

Coordinates

Allen, Joseph

Allens Delight[2]

354 acres & allowance

1784, 31 Aug

1784, 15 Dec

1785, 29 Aug to Joseph Allen

P3-515

E-6

Allen, Joseph

Burying Ground

49 ¾ acres & allowance

1792, 18 Sep

[no year given], 21 Jun

1795, 8 Jun to Joseph Allen

P25-350

D-5, D-6

ALLEN, Samuel & Joshua

Remnant [#4 on map]

28 acres 1 perch & allowance

1805, 23 Oct

1805, 17 Jun

1806, 3 Oct to Samuel & Joshua ALLEN

P59-90

D-5

BENNETT, Jacob

[no name on tract; #5 on map]

18 acres 104 perches & allowance

1816, 19 Sep

1817, 12 Mar

1830, 21 Dec to Jacob RESINGER

H30-8

C-6

Carrol, Thomas

Gray Forest

307 acres 140 perches & allowance

1797, 16 Jan

1797, 1 Aug

1805, 17 Nov to Thomas Carrol

P55-274

B-2, B-3

Carson, Thomas

Morea

108 acres & allowance

1795, 8 Dec

1796, 11 Feb

1801, 22 Jan to warrantee

P36-183

A-3, B-3

Chalfand, Henry S.

[no name on tract; #3 on map]

4 acres 11 2/5 perches & allowance

1866, 26 Apr

1866, 8 Jun

1868, 2 Apr to Henry S. Chalfand

H62-397

B-4

Chester, Joseph

Chestnut Grove

96 1/8 acres & allowance

1792, 11 Jun

1792, 3 Nov

1852, 24 Apr to Simeon Jackson

P48-652

D-4, E-4

Crow, John

Dear Purchase

382 3/8 acres & allowance

1786, 10 Jul

1787, 9 Jun

1801, 8 Jan to Martha Crow, et. al..

P47-71

C-5

Crow, Lawrence[3]

Crows Egg

295 acres & allowance

1784, 31 Aug

1784, 16 Dec

1786, 9 Jun to Lawrence Crow

P4-543

B-4, B-5

Cruse, Peter

[no name on tract; #7 on map]

18 acres 84 perches & allowance

1874, 14 Jan

1881, 17 & 18 Apr

1882, 11 Jul to C. M. Furnier

H74-348

E-5

 



[1] Allen Twp. was formed in 1852 from parts of Fallowfield and East Pike Run Townships.  Crumrine (pg. 645) states:  “From the assessment-roll of 1788 for Fallowfield are taken the following names of persons taxable in that township, and resident in that part of it which is now included in Allen, viz: Joseph Allen, Eli Allen, John Allen, Joseph Chester, Lawrence Crow, Samuel Dixon, Joshua Dixon, Henry Dixon, Edward Earl, Nathan Ellis, James Ellis, Jesse Ellis, Hezekiah Ellis, David England, John Nixon, John Sprowls, John Finney, William Jackman, John Justice, Jeremiah Riggs, William Riggs, Edmund Riggs, Clement Riggs, Henry Speers.” 

 

[2] According to Crumrine (pg. 645-7), Thomas Stockdale, whose family were English Quakers, purchased 200 acres of this tract in 1800 and 1801. Joseph and Deborah (HILL) ALLEN were in this area far earlier as they first received a patent for “Allenton” on the Monongahela River from Thomas and John Penn on 22 Dec 1774.

 

[3] Crumrine (pg. 645) says Lawrence and John CROW were brothers who settled on adjoining tracts which adjoined “William Jackman, Joseph Allen, William Howe, and Joshua Dixon. The two brothers lived here on these farms and died before 1796, as in that year the lands of William Howe are mentioned as ‘adjoining the lands of the heirs of Lawrence and John Crow and others.’”