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New Purchase Applications Register on CD-ROM (Pennsylvania, 1769+)
Each page of the New Purchase Applications Register has 6 columns: (1) Date of application; (2) Number assigned in the lottery; (3) Name of applicant; (4) Number of acres applied for; (5) Description of location; and (6) Where the survey was recorded (book and page number). In addition to the "official" entries, handwritten marginal comments usually give current townships and counties. If the New Purchase applicant had transferred ownership of the tract to another person, the "Name of Applicant" shows to whom the warrant was returned and the date of the return. Under the "Description of Location" heading, the neighbors are usually given and sometimes fairly specific locations. For example, Aneas Mackay'S application was drawn and given the number 83. According to the "Description of Location," his 300 acres were "In Turtle Bottom known by the name of Dirty Camp about 17 Miles Eastward of Fort Pitt on the Great Road leading to Legoneer including his Improvement." The warrant was returned 16 Mar 1789 to Stephen Bayard & Wife on 16 Mar 1789. His survey was recorded in Survey Book C10, pg. 112.
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