Nearly all of the individual loose surveys were gathered together and copied into ledgers early in the 20th century, and we are indeed fortunate that the Pennsylvania State Archives has posted these “ Copied Survey Books” online. (Free images are also posted on the Pennsylvania State Archives website where each page of each county’s ledger is a separate pdf file). They searched each county and parent county, then each alphabetical section chronologically, in the set of 67 county Warrant Registers plus 3 pre-1733 ledgers called First Landowners of PA: Colonial and State Warrant Registers in the PA Archives, Harrisburg, 1682-ca 1940 ($35) which can now be downloaded and saved to your computer. The draftsmen at the Pennsylvania Land Office painstakingly platted the metes-and-bounds of each original tract into current township boundaries using the Warrant and Patent Registers to create the Warrantee Maps.
To learn about the Pennsylvania Land Acquisition process that England set up to distribute colonial land (which basically continues today), as well as the boundary disputes (between Pennsylvania and Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and Pennsylvania and Connecticut), Revolutionary War Donation and Depreciation land, and land opened through treaties with Indians, see our Land Acquisition page. It was also part of the “New Purchase,” land opened after an Indian treaty at Fort Stanwix in 1768. Washington County was included in the area disputed between Virginia and Pennsylvania until 1780. It contains all of the Township Warrantee Maps drafted by the Pennsylvania Land Office in the 1920s when they worked on a project to research the original surveys and locate them once and for all on maps of current townships. On this page you will find a newly revised (2020) edition of our Washington County atlas for sale, first published in 2004. Our goal is to post landowner maps, or links to other websites with landowner maps, for every county in the state. In addition to publishing our own books, we are posting images of 19th century maps and atlases that we personally took in the Library of Congress. Ancestor Tracks is committed to becoming a one-stop resource for researchers of early Pennsylvania landowners.
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