Those interested in names of settlers who applied for warrants in what is now Westmoreland Co., and other southwestern PA counties, should look for this book, available for $40 from the Genealogical Soc. of PA -- "Pennsylvania Land Applications Vol. 2: New Purchase Applications, 1769-1773" by Kenneth D. McCrea, 2003, 418 pages. The question of price of the land is shown in Figure 1, 'Original Advertisement for New Purchase Application Program' , page iv. It reads: "ADVERTISEMENT. The Land-Office will be opened on the Third Day of April next, at Ten o'Clock in the Morning, to receive Applications from all Persons inclinable to take up Lands in the New Purchase, upon the Terms of Five Pounds Sterling per Hundred Acres, and One Penny per Acre per Annum Quit-Rent. No Person will be allowed to take up more than Three Hundred Acres, with the Special Licence of the Proprietaries or the Governor. The Surveys upon all Applications are to be made and returned within Six Months, and the whole Purchase-Money paid at One Payment, and Patent taken out within Twelve Months from the Date of Application, with Interest and Quit-Rent from Six Months after the Application. If there be a Failure on the Side of the Party applying, in either procuring his Survey and Return to be made, or in paying the Purchase-Money and obtaining the Patent, the Application and Survey will be utterly void, and the Proprietaries will be at Liberty to dispose of the Land ! to any other Person whatever. And as these Terms will be strictly adhered to by the Proprietaries, all Persons are hereby warned and cautioned not to apply for more Land than they will be able to pay for in the Time hereby given for that Purpose. By Order of the Governor, Janes Tilghman, Secretary of the Land Office. PHILADELPHIA, Land-Office, Febr. 23, 1769. N.B. So long a Day is fixed to give the Back Inhabitants Time to repair to the Office." The New Purchase also covered some present counties in mid-central and northeastern Pa. It ran diagonally across the state, from NE to SW. There is an earlier work by this author, published in 2002, "Pennsylvania Land Applications Vol. 1: East Side Applications, 1765-1769", 541 pages. This one I purchased from The PA Chapter of Palatines to America. It covered the oldest counties in SE PA -- old Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Phila, Chester, Lancaster as they were in 1765. The Southcentral counties of PA are included in the "West Side Applications", and the book on this section has not yet been published as far as I know. Janet Warter