Atlas of Township Warrantee Maps of Lancaster County, PA (Book with indexes and index-maps only)
(recommended for use with this CD, containing primary maps)
by Sharon Cook MacInnes, Ph.D.
609 pages
This book contains indexes for all 41 of the Township Warrantee Maps for Lancaster County which were produced by the Pennsylvania Land Office in the 1930s showing the location of the earliest landowners. Each Township Warrantee Map was painstakingly platted by draftsmen from the original warrants, surveys, and patents. The maps show precise outlines in metes and bounds of each original tract and all surrounding tracts in the township, giving the names of the warrantee and patentee; dates of the warrant, survey, and patent; and the patent and survey books and page of the recorded patent. Atlas coordinates have been added to the maps so that you can find the tracts easily.
Some of the draftsmen did not supply names of the warrantees and did not show them on the tract maps. Although we were unable to catch them all, we supplied hundreds of missing names of warrantees by consulting the copied surveys, the Lancaster County Warrant Register, and the relevant Patent Register any time one of two conditions was present: (1) there was a warrant to accept a previous survey; or (2) there was a large gap of time between the warrant and the patent, indicating that the land had probably changed hands.