Atlas of Township Warrantee Maps of Greene County, PA (pdf download)

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This Greene County atlas was revised in 2020.  It contains all information shown on the 18 Township Warrantee Maps which were produced by the Pennsylvania Land Office in the 1940s. Each chapter begins with the Township Warrantee Map, 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 (see small sample from Dauphin County below). A second map follows, cropped to eliminate marginal information, with atlas coordinates superimposed upon it. 

Following these maps are charts (see sample from our Dauphin County volume) which include each fact included on every tract in the Township Warrantee Maps: names of the warrantee and patentee; size of the tract; name of the tract, if given; dates of the warrant, survey, and patent; Patent Register and page number where the patent was recorded; and, finally, the coordinates where the tract in question is located. The draftsmen, however, did not include the survey book and page number, so we recently added this information by looking up each tract in county Warrant Registers (all 67 county Warrant Registers are available together on a single flash drive or CD from Ancestor Tracks).  We added numerous footnotes to give further information, including many neighbors shown on the original surveys.  Copies of the original surveys are posted online.

The warrantee maps show the location of the earliest landowners of the county—in other words, those who bought their land directly from the colony or state. After a tract was transferred to a private individual, subsequent transactions were recorded in the county courthouse.  Examining the maps for other families in the township makes it possible to locate allied families, baptismal sponsors, neighbors, fellow church members, and migration companions. If your ancestor was actually a first landowner in the county, purchasing his or her property directly from the colony or state of Pennsylvania, you should find him or her in this atlas. Likewise, if your ancestor was a neighbor to one of these tracts, you will probably find his or her name in the numerous footnotes included in this volume.

Before your buy our Atlas of Greene County, see if the name(s) you are looking for appear in the index of the 343-page Atlas.  You can examine or download either of the indexes, one by name and the other by township families. A sample page from our Dauphin County atlas, showing the coordinates of the map in question, is above.

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Tracts of original landowners of Greene County, 1 chapter for each of the 18 townships based on maps with atlas coordinates, including author's research, 343 pages total

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Atlas of Township Warrantee Maps of Greene County, PA (pdf download)

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