If your ancestor was actually a first landowner in the county, purchasing his or her property directly from the colony or state of Pennsylvania, you should find him or her in this atlas. The maps show precise outlines in metes and bounds of each original tract and all surrounding tracts in the township, making it possible to locate allied families, baptismal sponsors, neighbors, fellow church members, and migration companions. Each original Township Warrantee Map was painstakingly platted by draftsmen from the original warrants, surveys, and patents on file in Harrisburg. After a tract was transferred to a private individual, subsequent transactions were recorded in the county courthouse. The warrantee maps show the location of the earliest landowners of the county-in other words, those who bought their land directly from the colony or state. Numerous footnotes give further information, including neighbors. Following these maps are charts (see below) which include each fact included on every tract in the Township Warrantee Maps: names of the warrantee and patentee size of the tract name of the tract, if given dates of the warrant, survey, and patent Survey Book and page number where the survey was recorded Patent Register and page number where the patent was recorded and, finally, the coordinates where the tract in question is located. A second map follows, cropped to eliminate marginal information, containing atlas coordinates superimposed upon it (click twice to see more detail). Each chapter begins with the Township Warrantee Map reduced in size to fit the 8 1/2" X 11" page limitation. The 7th volume of county atlases in the "Early Landowners of PA" series, this Dauphin County atlas contains all information shown on the 24 Township Warrantee Maps which were produced by the Pennsylvania Land Office in the 1940s. Atlas of Township Warrantee Maps of Dauphin County (512 pages)Ĭompanion CD containing Original Maps and Geo-Referenced Maps Locating Tracts on Modern Roads (.jpg and.
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