![]() ![]() The draftsmen at the Pennsylvania Land Office painstakingly platted the metes-and-bounds of each original tract into current township boundaries using the Warrant and Patent Registers to create the Warrantee Maps. To learn about the Pennsylvania Land Acquisition process that England set up to distribute colonial land (which basically continues today), as well as the boundary disputes (between Pennsylvania and Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and Pennsylvania and Connecticut), Revolutionary War Donation and Depreciation land, and land opened through treaties with Indians, see our Land Acquisition page. It was also part of the “New Purchase,” land opened after an Indian treaty at Fort Stanwix in 1768. Washington County was included in the area disputed between Virginia and Pennsylvania until 1780. It contains all of the Township Warrantee Maps drafted by the Pennsylvania Land Office in the 1920s when they worked on a project to research the original surveys and locate them once and for all on maps of current townships. On this page you will find a newly revised (2020) edition of our Washington County atlas for sale, first published in 2004. Our goal is to post landowner maps, or links to other websites with landowner maps, for every county in the state. In addition to publishing our own books, we are posting images of 19th century maps and atlases that we personally took in the Library of Congress. ![]() Township Map No.Ancestor Tracks is committed to becoming a one-stop resource for researchers of early Pennsylvania landowners. Hanover 1 Jefferson 2 Independence 3 Donegal 4 Robinson 5 Smith 6 Cross Creek 7 Hopewell 8 Blaine 9 Buffalo 10 Canton 11 Mount Pleasant 12 Cecil 13 Chartiers 14 North Strabane 15 Peters 16 South Strabane 17 West Finley 18 East Finley 19 South Franklin 20 Morris 21 Amwell 22 North Franklin 23 West Pike Run 24 Wet Bethlehem 25 North Bethlehem 26 Somerset 27 Nottingham 28 Union 29 Carroll 30 Fallowfield 31īoroughs of Washington Co., Pennsylvania Township Map No. (Click here for Township formation dates) Township Map of Washington Co., Pennsylvaniaįrom The Pennsylvania Manual 1972-1973, Vol. ![]()
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