We have posted many free 19th century maps and atlases showing landowners which can be used with the 1850, 1860 and 1870 censuses. We obtained most of these at the Geography and Map Reading Room of the Library of Congress. They are downloadable from our site—click on the township you want to examine and wait until it loads, click on it again to enlarge it, and then right-click on the image, scroll down to “Save Image As…” and tell it where to save it on your computer. We will continue to post free images as time allows. I have just taken photos of a very large map showing the earliest landowners of Union County by R. F. Brown in 1874, county surveyor, which is on the wall in the courthouse there and I’m stitching the images together and will post them soon. Also, I now have Breou’s 1883 “Farm Maps of Chester County” which I hope to post soon. Adams 1858 http://ancestortracks.com/Adams_Co_Map,1858.html Armstrong 1861 http://ancestortracks.com/Armstrong_Co_Map,1861.html – this is the “Pomeroy Map” Beaver/Lawrence 1860 http://ancestortracks.com/Beaver_County_Map1860.html Bedford 1861 http://ancestortracks.com/Bedford_Co_Map,1861.html Berks 1860 http://ancestortracks.com/Berks_Co_blurb.html Bucks 1850 & 1857 http://ancestortracks.com/Phil_Mont_Bucks_Del_maps.html Butler 1858 http://ancestortracks.com/Butler_Co_Map,1858.html Clearfield http://ancestortracks.com/Clearfield_by_Ed_heary.html - these are maps showing the earliest settlers as platted by surveyor Ed Heary which we purchased from him and are posting with his permission; not indexed, but they give a wealth of info Columbia ?? http://ancestortracks.com/Columbia_Co_blurb.html - these are draft maps by the PA Land Office located in the PA Archives in Harrisburg showing the warrantees; not indexed Crawford ?? http://ancestortracks.com/Crawford_Co_Atlas.html Forest 1881 http://ancestortracks.com/ForestCo1881.html Lawrence/Beaver 1860 (see Beaver above) Lebanon -- http://ancestortracks.com/Lebanon_Co_blurb.html; this is an index to the series of booklets produced by James Wolfson showing the earliest landowners of Lebanon Co. His pamphlets have long been out of print, but the index shows which township a warrantee was living in so that a researcher knows which pages to request from the Library of Congress or a Family History Library. Montgomery 1857, 1868 http://ancestortracks.com/Phil_Mont_Bucks_Del_maps.html Northampton 1860 http://ancestortracks.com/Northampton_Co_Map,1860.html Northumberland 1858 http://ancestortracks.com/Northumberland_Map1858,TWMapsPriceList.htm Venango 1857 http://ancestortracks.com/VenangoCo_resources.html Westmoreland 1857 http://ancestortracks.com/WestmorelandCoMap,1857.html (scroll down the page) We have also posted free, downloadagle images from the following atlases: Clarion 1877 http://ancestortracks.com/Clarion_Co_Atlas,Caldwell,1877.html (Caldwell’s Atlas) Delaware 1880 http://ancestortracks.com/Delaware_Co_Warrantee_Atlas.html (Smith; this is an atlas of the warrantees) Somerset 1930’s http://ancestortracks.com/Somerset_Co_Warrantees.html (Somerset County Atlas of Surveys and Warrants Collected and Plotted as a WPA Project—this shows the earliest landowners of Somerset Co.; not indexed; obtained from the Somerset County Courthouse In addition to the free images above, we have published a series of books called Early Landowners of Pennsylvania: Atlas of Township Warrantee Maps of *** County. We purchased the following warrantee maps from the PA Archives in Harrisburg, transcribed every piece of information on each tract (name of the warrantee and patentee; dates of the warrant, survey, and patent; name and size of the tract; and the patent book and page number where the tract was recorded. Then we superimposed atlas coordinates over the maps, reduced them to fit the 8 ½ X 11” pages, and added the coordinates to the description of each tract for ease of locating them. Each volume is completed with an everyname index. Here is a list of the completed published book which can be seen at http://ancestortracks.com <http://ancestortracks.com/> : Berks The PA Land Office only completed maps for about 50% of the county, but we supplemented those Township Warrantee Maps with others from additional sources; about 75% of the county is complete. No maps are included for the following townships: Colebrookdale, Douglass, Hereford, Ontelaunee, Perry, Pike, and Washington. Partial (sometimes very partial) coverage is given for the following townships: Albany, District, Earl, Greenwich, Longswamp, Maidencreek, Windsor, Rockland and Richmond. Fayette These Township Warrantee Maps were previously published (unindexed) in Horn Papers, Volume 3. We have added copious footnotes, most notably from the New Purchase Resiter in the PA Archives, atlas coordinates, and an everyname index. Greene: These Township Warrantee Maps were previously published (unindexed) in Horn Papers, Volume 3. We have added copious footnotes, most notably from the New Purchase Resiter in the PA Archives, atlas coordinates, and an everyname index. Washington: These Township Warrantee Maps were previously published (unindexed) in Horn Papers, Volume 3. We have added copious footnotes, most notably from the New Purchase Resiter in the PA Archives, atlas coordinates, and an everyname index. Wayne and Pike: Map by Jason Torrey, surveyor (1814; indexed; CD only) Westmoreland: We obtained these Township Patent Maps from the county of Westmoreland since the state did not plat this county. These early landowner maps differ from the state-produced warrantee maps (see a description of Pennsylvania’s land acquisition process at http://ancestortracks.com/warrant_registers_CD.htm). The names of the original warrantees were often omitted from the data on the maps, necessitating more research on our part. Thus, we looked up the original reference to each tract (about 4,000 of them!) in the Warrant Registers and Patent Registers in the PA Archives, as well as the New Purchase Application Register of 1769 if applicable. All of this compiled information is included in this atlas.