John, You're right of course, that "There just isn't enough information in them to pin the sites down for sure." I'm anxious to see just how many are identified when I get to see all 45 panels. The notations alongside the parcels merely read "4-3," "22-6" and such. Those are to translate into Donehoo's page 4, third grantee, page 22, sixth grantee and such. (As careful as he seems to be, it appears that Donehoo has the page breaks slightly off from the originals, though. Doesn't matter, really, he's the publication used by the Shippensburg Project.) I don't know if they noted the "Pre Licensees" mentioned as already settled adjacent the new tracts, either. I'll report back what I find! And alumni Rob: Karen Daniel, head of Special Collections and Archives at Shippensburg now-University! has been wonderful. She wrote that she was hired to get a handle on what they have and what has been lost. She also followed up with suggestions as to papers I might want to view and offered to track down footnoted sources via the alumni who wrote them! I was impressed. Sally Brandon ===================== From: John Polk <jfpolk@earthlink.net> Date: Mon Oct 10 21:48:29 CDT 2005 To: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [Sc-Ir] Blunston Licenses The Blunston Licenses are an important resource for finding those first Scotch-Irish squatters who jumped the gun and populated the Cumberland Valley before the Penns concluded their treaty with the Indians for the area. There were 249 licenses issued altogether, dating from 1734 to 1736. A word of caution - the exact location of many of the licensed properties will never be known with certainty. There just isn't enough information in them to pin the sites down for sure, and a lot of the reference points have vanished or have very different names now than they did in 1737. <snip>