Land Records Indices

The following indices to land records are available as online images. More information about each is available on the index page.

Old Rights Index: Bucks and Chester Counties - Index to warrants, surveys and returns filed for lands in Bucks and Chester Counties, generally prior to 1733
Original Purchases Register - Register of Original Purchasers of rights to land in Pennsylvania who bought land directly from William Penn
Patent Indexes - Index to land records by name of patentee, 1684-1957
Philadelphia Old Rights (Index) - Index to warrants, surveys and returns filed for lands in Philadelphia County, generally prior to 1733

Depreciation Land Register - Index to purchasers of lands auctioned for the redemption of Revolutionary War depreciation certificates
Last Purchase Register - Index to warrants granted between 1786 and 1817 for lands in the purchase of 1784 northeast of the Allegheny River and Conewango Creek
Luzerne County Certified Townships - Index to surveys and patents for tracts in the Seventeen Certified Townships in northeastern Pennsylvania, originally claimed by Connecticut settlers
Patent Indexes - Index to land records by name of patentee, 1684-1957
Patent Tract Name Index - Index to land patents by the name of the tract
Warrant Registers - Index to warrants, surveys and patents, 1734-1957, by the name of the warrantee

East Side Applications (Register) - Register of land warrant applications for land east of the Susquehanna and within the purchases of 1754 and earlier filed between 1765 and 1769.
New Purchase Register - Register of land warrant applications for land within the purchase of 1768 filed in 1769-73
West Side Applications (Register) - Register of land warrant applications for land west of the Susquehanna and within the purchases of 1754 and earlier filed between 1766 and 1769

Copied Survey Books - official copies of original surveys filed in the Land Office
Index to Copied Survey Books - an index to the Full Alphabet, B and BB volumes of the Copied Survey Books
Indexes of Selected Original (Loose) Surveys - a number of partial, supplemental indexes for the surveys and survey books that can be used to locate surveys for some Donation Lands tracts, some Philadelphia Bank Lots, and some Old Rights tracts and Proprietary Rights tracts among others
Rejected Surveys - A list of warrantees for whom subsequent surveys were rejected by the Land Office

Donation Lands - Records and indexes to Donation lands granted to Revolutionary War veterans of the Pennsylvania Line regiments

Connected Draft Maps - maps from the Land Office Map Collection that show warrant tracts for specific areas within various counties
Land Office Map Collection Database - Index to maps held in the Land Office Map collection in Record Group 17
Melish-Whiteside Maps - Early-nineteenth century county maps depicting township boundaries, rivers, churches, factories, mines, taverns, furnaces, forges, mills, ferries and roads
Warrantee Township Maps - Land office maps showing original warrant tracts within the boundaries of present-day townships

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