Well, as you all know by now, the map that I took a picture of is really difficult to see without taking it to "PhotoShop" or making it a PDF so that you can magnify its details. Here are some of the options I was thinking about: 1. See if there is a PDF of the map online through the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 2. Ask the Historical Society of Pennsylvania if they have scanned the original or if they have transposed all the names and where the land is located for each owner. 3. Use a magnifying glass 4. Ask my husband to fiddle with it using "photoshop" to see if the detail can be magnified. I personally opted for number 4; I will let you know how that goes :). Kim Townsend Spangrude On Jun 3, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Mal Humes wrote: > I would appreciate a copy of this if you can email it to me. > > Thanks and regards, > > Malcolm > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kim Spangrude [mailto:kimspangrude@mac.com] > Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 7:39 PM > To: PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PaOldC] RE: Land patents/grants > > > This may or may not be helpful, but here goes: When I was in > Philadelphia two weeks ago, I visited the old Quaker Meeting House in > downtown Philadelphia, just down the street from Independence Hall. > They had a few relics hanging on the walls from old Quakers, and I > noticed a reproduction of the map that showed all of the land owners > and where their property was; the explanation hanging next to this > reproduction stated that the land owners were assigned their property > when they were still in England, before they came to Pennsylvania. I > took a picture of the map, if anyone is interested. I found my early > Richard Townsend ancestor on the map. > Kim Townsend Spangrude > On Jun 3, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Anna B wrote: > >> this site has, primarily, documents dated 1820 or after; however, >> there are >> some very early ones. >> Anna >

http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/atlas/1687.html This looks like a high resolution copy of the map. Gwen Boyer Bjorkman gwenbj@seanet.com -----Original Message----- From: Kimberly Ann Spangrude [mailto:kimspangrude@mac.com] Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 8:43 PM To: PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PaOldC] RE: Land patents/grants Well, as you all know by now, the map that I took a picture of is really difficult to see without taking it to "PhotoShop" or making it a PDF so that you can magnify its details. Here are some of the options I was thinking about: 1. See if there is a PDF of the map online through the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 2. Ask the Historical Society of Pennsylvania if they have scanned the original or if they have transposed all the names and where the land is located for each owner. 3. Use a magnifying glass 4. Ask my husband to fiddle with it using "photoshop" to see if the detail can be magnified. I personally opted for number 4; I will let you know how that goes :). Kim Townsend Spangrude On Jun 3, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Mal Humes wrote: > I would appreciate a copy of this if you can email it to me. > > Thanks and regards, > > Malcolm > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kim Spangrude [mailto:kimspangrude@mac.com] > Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 7:39 PM > To: PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PaOldC] RE: Land patents/grants > > > This may or may not be helpful, but here goes: When I was in > Philadelphia two weeks ago, I visited the old Quaker Meeting House in > downtown Philadelphia, just down the street from Independence Hall. > They had a few relics hanging on the walls from old Quakers, and I > noticed a reproduction of the map that showed all of the land owners > and where their property was; the explanation hanging next to this > reproduction stated that the land owners were assigned their property > when they were still in England, before they came to Pennsylvania. I > took a picture of the map, if anyone is interested. I found my early > Richard Townsend ancestor on the map. > Kim Townsend Spangrude > On Jun 3, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Anna B wrote: > >> this site has, primarily, documents dated 1820 or after; however, >> there are >> some very early ones. >> Anna > ==== PA-OLD-CHESTER Mailing List ==== Unsubscribing.... To leave PA-old-chester-l, send mail to PA-old-chester-l-request@rootsweb.com with the single word unsubscribe in the message or subject slot. NO VIRUS WARNINGS - if you are concerned contact me PERSONALLY ferg@ntelos.net If you have ANY problems, do not send them to the list contact me personally....list manager ferg@ntelos.net ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx

Gwen, the online version is slightly different from the map that is hanging in the old Quaker meeting house in Philadelphia. For example, my Rich Townsend is on the map reproduction in the Quaker Meeting House (the pictures I took) but the same plot of land is blank in the online version that you found. I wonder if one is an earlier version than the other. Kim On Jun 3, 2006, at 10:10 PM, Gwen Boyer Bjorkman wrote: > http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/atlas/1687.html > > This looks like a high resolution copy of the map. > > Gwen Boyer Bjorkman > gwenbj@seanet.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kimberly Ann Spangrude [mailto:kimspangrude@mac.com] > Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 8:43 PM > To: PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PaOldC] RE: Land patents/grants > > > Well, as you all know by now, the map that I took a picture of is > really difficult to see without taking it to "PhotoShop" or making it a > PDF so that you can magnify its details. Here are some of the options > I was thinking about: > 1. See if there is a PDF of the map online through the Friends > Historical Library of Swarthmore College > 2. Ask the Historical Society of Pennsylvania if they have scanned the > original or if they have transposed all the names and where the land is > located for each owner. > 3. Use a magnifying glass > 4. Ask my husband to fiddle with it using "photoshop" to see if the > detail can be magnified. > I personally opted for number 4; I will let you know how that goes :). > Kim Townsend Spangrude > On Jun 3, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Mal Humes wrote: > >> I would appreciate a copy of this if you can email it to me. >> >> Thanks and regards, >> >> Malcolm >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kim Spangrude [mailto:kimspangrude@mac.com] >> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 7:39 PM >> To: PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [PaOldC] RE: Land patents/grants >> >> >> This may or may not be helpful, but here goes: When I was in >> Philadelphia two weeks ago, I visited the old Quaker Meeting House in >> downtown Philadelphia, just down the street from Independence Hall. >> They had a few relics hanging on the walls from old Quakers, and I >> noticed a reproduction of the map that showed all of the land owners >> and where their property was; the explanation hanging next to this >> reproduction stated that the land owners were assigned their property >> when they were still in England, before they came to Pennsylvania. >> I >> took a picture of the map, if anyone is interested. I found my early >> Richard Townsend ancestor on the map. >> Kim Townsend Spangrude >> On Jun 3, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Anna B wrote: >> >>> this site has, primarily, documents dated 1820 or after; however, >>> there are >>> some very early ones. >>> Anna >> > > > ==== PA-OLD-CHESTER Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribing.... To leave PA-old-chester-l, send mail to > PA-old-chester-l-request@rootsweb.com > with the single word unsubscribe in the message or subject slot. > > NO VIRUS WARNINGS - if you are concerned contact me PERSONALLY > ferg@ntelos.net > > If you have ANY problems, do not send them to the list > contact me personally....list manager ferg@ntelos.net > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > > > > > ==== PA-OLD-CHESTER Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribing. To leave PA-old-chester-l, send mail to > PA-old-chester-l-request@rootsweb.com > with the single word unsubscribe in the message or subject slot." > > > NO VIRUS WARNINGS - if you are concerned contact me PERSONALLY > ferg@ntelos.net > > please visit the Chester Co rootsweb site...it is full of area photos, > helpful URLs and lots of county information > http://www.pa-roots.com/~chester/ > > Visit the archives for this list to view old postings > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PA-OLD- > CHESTER > If you have ANY problems, do not send them to the list > contact me personally....list manager ferg@ntelos.net > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >