Old rights, proprietary rights, Virginia entries, and soldiers entitled to donation lands. With An explanation of Reed's map of Philadelphia. Ed. by William Henry Egle, M.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Egle, William Henry, 1830-1901, Editor.

Contributor:

Busch, Clarence M.

Series:

Pennsylvania archives; third series ... vol. III

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public lands--Pennsylvania.

Public lands.

Land grants--Pennsylvania.

Land grants.

Public lands--Virginia.

Land grants--Virginia.

Military pensions--United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

Military pensions.

Physical Description:

4 preliminary leaves, 3-771, [1] pages 3 folded maps 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Harrisburg, C.M. Busch, State Printer, 1896.

Contents:

Old rights [Philadelphia County, R-Y. Bucks County. Chester County. Individuals]

Proprietary rights

[Reed, John]. An explanation of the map of the city and liberties ... of Philadelphia [1774]

Warrants for islands in the Susquehanna, 1793-1812

Report on the unappropriated islands in the rivers Delaware, Schuylkill and Susquehanna, 1791

Virginia claims to lands in western Pennsylvania / [by R.H. Foster]

Virginia entries in western Pennsylvania, 1779-1780

An account of the donation lands of Pennsylvania / [by R.H. Foster]

Soldiers of the Pennsylvania line entitled to donation lands

Pennsylvania depreciation lands, surveyed in 1783-1785.

Notes:

Series t.p. dated 1894.

The list of Philadelphia County "Old rights" (p. 3-53)--is continued from Pennsylvania archives, 3d ser., v. 2, published, 1894, under title: Minutes of the Board of property and other references to lands in Pennsylvania.

For the map described in John Reed's "An explanation of the map of ... Philadelphia," see W.H. Egle, ed., Draughts of the proprietary manors in the province of Pennsylvania ... 1895 (Pennsylvania archives, 3d ser., v. 4) ...

OCLC:

20023882