Janet, Thanks for the names of the books on land purchases. They sound good. Are warrants for bounty land included in these books? The warrant would allow a person to be awarded free land for military service. Lee Anne

Lee Anne -- "PA Land Applications Vol. 2: New Purchase Applications, 1769-1773" does not include "bounty land", as this was before the Revol. Land sold here was that purchased from the Indians in 1768 through the Treaty of Fort Stanwix. If you are interested in land warrants & surveys for the entire state of PA, there is a new CD available from ancestortracks.com, titled "First Landowners of PA: Colonial and State Warant Registers in the PA Archives, Harrisburg, 1682-ca. 1940". It includes .pdf files of Original Purchases, Old Rights Purchases & the State Warrant Registers of all 67 counties in PA. These are the master indexes to original warrants, survey & patents for all land transfers from PA to private owners. The registers have the names & dates for the warrant & patent (often the patent went to a different person several years later), dates, acres & where the warrants & surveys are recorded (needed for ordering a copy from Harrisburg). I recently purchased this CD, and am finding it interesting to browse through. You can get to each county, and then select the letter of the surname to browse, but there is not a master index (unfortunately). However, these are digital images of the actual state land registers. You can find out more about this at the website for AncestorTracks. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee Anne Center To: PAWESTMO-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 1:05 PM Subject: FW: [PAWESTMO-L] Westmoreland Co. land applications, 3 Apr. 1769 -- what did land cost? Janet, Thanks for the names of the books on land purchases. They sound good. Are warrants for bounty land included in these books? The warrant would allow a person to be awarded free land for military service. Lee Anne ==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ====

Also check out Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Bureau of Archives and History Pennsylvania State Archives http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-88WarrantRegisters/r17-88AllCountiesInterface.htm#BaynWhar Records of the Land Office WARRANT REGISTERS, 1733-1957. [series #17.88] *Document Images for Each County* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Below are links to the scanned Warrant Register pages for each county. These Warrant Registers serve as the basic index to the original land warrants, surveys and patents for about 70% of the land in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the dates 1733-ca.1957. (For the pre-1733 period, consult the Old Rights Registers {series #17.78 and 17.19} and the Proprietary Rights Index {series #17.110}. For late-twentieth-century warrants and patents, contact the Pennsylvania State Archives at: (717) 783-2669 or (717) 783-3281.) The scanned Warrant Registers for 1733-1957 {series #17.88} are arranged alphabetically by the surname of the person who got the warrant (warrantee). More specifically, entries are grouped by the first letter of a person's surname, and thereunder arranged in rough chronological order by warrant date. Although the Warrant Registers also provide the name of the person who received the patent (patentee), they do not include an index by this name. You must use the Patent Indexes {series #17.147, 17.154 and 17.155} to look up properties by patentee name if that is all you know. The geographical area covered by any particular warrant register includes the boundaries of the county as it existed at the time of the warrant. Parent counties contain entries for properties that eventually ended up in other counties, breaking off from the parent at a later date. For example, a 1765 warrant for land now in Lebanon County would be entered in the Lancaster County warrant register. When a new county was formed, the earlier records were not transferred from the parent county. So be aware of county boundary changes as you consult the Warrant Registers. You may want to refer to our list of county formation dates. Other Related Indexes: In addition to the county warrant registers, several other volumes index warrants and claims for the same time period. When searching for a particular individual or property, consult both the county warrant register and the pertinent index listed below if one covers the area and time period in which you are interested. The series descriptions to which this list is linked will provide more information on each index.