Hi folks, The state continues to add digital content to the on line Pennsylvania archives. It's amazing what you can do! The master index is the warrant registers, on line now for years. You can now drill down to view the actual survey. You start here: http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=3184&&SortOrder=100&level=4&parentCommID=3162&menuLevel=Level_4&mode=2 Select Warrant Registers. Then select county. They didn't begin recording warrants in future counties because they didn't know at the time there would be a future county having failed "Crystal Ball, 101" class. So you often need to check the parent county. I selected Cumberland. Then there is a page which lets you choose pages alphabetically by surname. I selected page 1 of the Ms because I know that's where William McCamish's warrant is recorded in 1751. Up comes an image of page 1 of the Ms of the warrant register for Cumberland County. In the far right colums are the locations where the warrant and the survey are recorded. The copied surveys are now on line too. By noting I wanted C128 274 (Translation: series "C", book 128, page 274, from the warrant register, I went to the URL given above and selected "Copied Surveys" (right next to warrant registers). http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/r17-114MainInterfacePage.htm I locate the C series and select it, then go to 128 and select it. Then to page 274. Up comes the survey! Note that William warranted the land in 1751. He was living there. We know because he was put in charge of overseeing the poor, which is hard to do from Derry or even Philadelphia. The survey wasn't done till 1801 (from memory), after the property had changed hands. There is a later deed -- the first -- that describes the whole process. That deed was 1824 -- 75 years after Wm. started hacking down the trees on that land. http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/Books%20C1-C234/Book%20C128/Book%20C-128%20pg%20547.pdf It's very cute! Linda Merle