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Volume IV,
Issue 01, January, 2004
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Volume IV, Issue 01, January, 2004 |
NOTE:
Land warrants were the first document issued to a person who
wanted to obtain land from the state. A land warrant gave the applicant
permission to have the land surveyed. When the survey was returned
to the state with a fee, a patent was issued to the individual. There
can be many years between the issuing of a warrant and the issuing of a
patent, and it may not have been issued to the same person.
A patent is the equivalent of a deed between the state and an individual.
All land transfers after a patent was issued would be by deed. Most
deeds (but not all) were recorded in the county courthouse of the county
that had jurisdiction at the time the deed was recorded. This may
be the current county, but it could also be any of the parent counties
for a particular location. Some deeds were never recorded, and some
may have been recorded much later than the date of the deed, some more
than 100 years later.
Copies of the original documents are available through the PA
State Archives in Harrisburg. In most cases, the documents do not
include the signature of the person warranting the land. Many of
the warrants include the year the land was first settled (listed as the
date when interest was to start, almost always on March first). This,
however, may not be the date the warrantee settled on the land if the land
had changed hands before a warrant was applied for.
LAND WARRANTS IN THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD FROM PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES.
THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 25:
PROVINCIAL PAPERS: WARRANTEES OF LAND in the SEVERAL COUNTIES of the
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
1730-1898.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY EGLE, M.D., M.A.
VOL. II.
WM. STANLEY RAY.
STATE PRINTER OF PENNSYLVANIA - 1898.
LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, ACRES, DATE OF SURVEY
WARRANTEES OF LAND, COUNTY OF BEDFORD - 1771-1893 - Page 593
O'Neal, Peter, 150, July 5, 1793
WARRANTEES OF LAND, COUNTY OF BEDFORD - 1771-1893 - Page 594
O'Neal, Peter, 188, Dec. 30, 1813
O'Neal, Peter, 112, Dec. 03, 1813
O'Neal, Peter, 14, July 20, 1827
PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES FIFTH SERIES VOLUME V Edited by THOMAS LYNCH MONTGOMERY
Under the direction of the HON. FRANK M. FULLER, Secretary of the Commonwealth
HARRISBURG, PA: HARRISBURG PUBLISHING COMPANY, STATE PRINTER, 1906.
MUSTER ROLLS AND PAPERS RELATING TO THE ASSOCIATORS AND MILITIA OF
THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD