Hi Leon, You have blessed so many with your land warrant research - thank you! Do you know if efforts are ongoing to completely map the few Berks County Townships that are not done? How about Perry Township, in particular? Thanks, Jeff Heckman Penfield, NY ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leon F. Borst" <leon811@verizon.net> To: "PaBerks-L" <PABERKS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 7:12 AM Subject: [PABERKS] PA Land Warrants & Surveys > > > On Friday, 23 May 2008 Les Hill wrote: > > Leon: > > See my e-mail below. Apparently I had an old e-mail address for you. > > Thanks, Les Hill St Louis, MO > > > From: Hope75hill > To: Lobo@enter.net > BCC: Hope75hill > Sent: 5/23/2008 3:19:54 P.M. Central Daylight Time > Subj: Re: Fw: [PABERKS] Re: Jacob Hill's land 1739 > > > Leon: > > Would you know where I could get a copy of the 7/May/1734 land warrant and > connected land draft which you refer to in the attached map you shared > with me? > > Thanks, Les Hill St. Louis MO > > LEON'S ANSWER: > > Les, > You can order Warrants and Patents from the Pennsylvania State Archives. > Instructions and cost can be found at: > http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/Bah/DAM/Land%20Record%20Order%20Form.pdf > > Do your own searching and order by document number. Pay $3.00 instead of > $25.00. You can get the information you want by going to: > http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/Bah/DAM/landrec.htm . When this site opens you > should see a table titled Scanned Land Records, viewable online:" at the > top of the page. > 1.click on "Warrant Registers" in the upper left hand corner of the table. > This will open to a list of Pennsylvania Counties. > 2. scroll down and click on Philadelphia County (why Philadelphia? Because > we know the warrant date is 1734 and Berks County wasn't > incorporated from Phila. until 1752). This will open an index of page > numbers sorted by the first initial of the surname. > 3. scroll down to the "H" section (because you're looking for "Hill, > Jacob") and click on "page 22" (I already did this, so I > know "Jacob Hill" is on this page. If he wasn't, you would have to > search each "H" page until you found him.) > 4.When page 22 opens, it is very small. Click on the small triangle next > to the box containing 25% and select 100% from the menu (you can > select any number - I use 100%). You can move the page with the mouse > using the Hand Tool or the scroll bars (if the hand tool isn't > present, right click on the page and select it from the resulting menu . > You can also use the "direction keys" on the Keyboard > 5. Search down the page until you find "Hill, Jacob". If you did > everything right, you should find him at Warrant No. 18 (be > careful, the numbers are not always sequential). > > Now to find the plat map or "drawing" of the land survey (these you can > copy at no cost). > You have the hardest part done by completing steps 1 thru 5 above. Now > move to the last two columns on the right of the page. > 1. In the last two columns you have the book No. and the page number where > the survey is copied. Copy these numbers. For John Hill these > numbers are Book C97 pages 80 & 81 or written C97-80,81 > 2. Go back to the table titled "Scanned Land Records, viewable online" (3 > or 4 clicks on the "back arrow" should get you there) and > click on "Copied Survey Books". This wll open an index for volumes (read > instructions on page that opens). > 3. For "Jacob Hill" we want Volume C97 (listed in index as C-97). Find and > click on "C-97". A "page number" index for Volume C97 opens. > Since we want page 80 in this volume, find "C-97-80, reverse" and click on > "C-97-80".You can move and change the size of the draft image as > you did the Warrant image. > 4. click on the "back arrow" to go back to "C-97-80, reverse" on the "page > number" index and click on "reverse" to read the back side of the > draft page. > > To copy images. > You'll see that when you open survey images there's a lot of extraneous > material on the screen that you don't want to copy (all that black area on > the screen which takes time to print and uses lots of ink -- also, the > certification on the bottom of the page is probably not needed for your > purpose). Select only what you want to print by using the select tool. Put > the mouse pointer which is probably a hand) on the document and RIGHT > CLICK. On the resulting menu, click on the "Select Tool". The "hand" now > becomes a cross-hair that you can move with the mouse. Position the > cross-hair in the upper right hand corner of the page, slightly above and > to the right of the page number. Depress and hold down the left mouse > button while moving the cross-hair to the left and down (stay on the page) > until you covered the area you want to copy. Release the mouse button and > check that what you want to copy is covered with blue. If your satisfied > with your selection, RIGHT CLICK on the blue ar! > ea then click on the word "copy" that appears. Open your word processor > and select "center alignment". RIGHT CLICK on the empty document and in > the resulting menu, click on "Paste". Print the document. Write "C97-" > (without the quotes) in front of the page number so you now have in the > upper right hand corner C97-80 (you never know if later you'll want to go > back online and check something on this document). Now select copy and > paste the reverse side of the document to your word processor. Insert the > printed copy of the survey into your printer (make sure the copy is > oriented so you print on the blank side of the page) and print the reverse > side of the document from your word processor. > > If you have any problem with these instructions, Phone 610-942-4905. > > Leon F. Borst > Chester County, PA > ==== PABERKS Mailing List ==== > PABERKS@rootsweb.com > > To contact the List Administrator: > Rick Berkheiser, PABERKS-admin@rootsweb.com > > To visit the Berks Message Board: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.berks > > To visit the Berks County, PA website: > http://www.pa-roots.com/~berks/ > Hosted by Nancy Freehafer > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PABERKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >
Jeff, Thanks for the kind words. You know that Perry Township was formed from the lower part of Windsor Township in 1852. This was 100 years after Berks County was formed in 1752, so I would guess that most (if not all) warrant records for land currently in Perry Township would place the land in Windsor Township. As far as I know, the State does not intend to finish compiling connected draft maps for those counties east of the Susquehanna. There are some people working on Albany, Windsor/Perry, Greenwich, and Maxatawny Townships in Berks County (no, I won't give you their names). Are you trying to locate warranted land in what is now Perry Township? If so, what names are of interest to you? Leon F. Borst Chester County, PA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Heckman" <jheckman@frontiernet.net> To: <paberks@rootsweb.com>; "PaBerks-L" <PABERKS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [PABERKS] PA Land Warrants & Surveys Hi Leon, You have blessed so many with your land warrant research - thank you! Do you know if efforts are ongoing to completely map the few Berks County Townships that are not done? How about Perry Township, in particular? Thanks, Jeff Heckman Penfield, NY