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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA-L] Warrantees of Land in co.Bedford, Pa. 1771-1894
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 03:40:01 -0500


LAND WARRANTS IN THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD FROM

PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES. THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 25:

PROVINCIAL PAPERS:

WARRANTEES OF LAND

in the

SEVERAL COUNTIES

of the

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

1730-1898.

EDITED BY
WILLIAM HENRY EGLE, M.D., M.A.

VOL. II.

WM. STANLEY RAY.
STATE PRINTER OF PENNSYLVANIA
1898.

WARRANTEES OF LAND

IN THE

COUNTY OF BEDFORD

1771-1893.

NOTE:

Land warrants were the first document issued to a person who wanted to
obtain land from the state. A land warrant gave the applicant permission to
have
the land surveyed. When the survey was returned to the state with a fee, a
patent
was issued to the individual. There can be many years between the issuing
of a
warrant and the issuing of a patent, and it may not have been issued to the
same person.
A patent is the equivalent of a deed between the state and an individual.
All land
transfers after a patent was issued would be by deed. Most deeds (but not
all) were
recorded in the county courthouse of the county that had jurisdiction at the
time
the deed was recorded. This may be the current county, but it could also be
any of
the parent counties for a particular location. Some deeds were never
recorded, and
some may have been recorded much later than the date of the deed, some more
than
100 years later.
Copies of the original documents are available through the PA State
Archives
in Harrisburg. In most cases, the documents do not include the signature of
the
person warranting the land. Many of the warrants include the year the land
was first
settled (listed as the date when interest was to start, almost always on
March first).
This, however, may not be the date the the warrantee settled on the land if
the land had changed hands before a warrant was applied for.

John Rhea 200 ac. March 9, 1785
co. Bedford 1771-1892 p. 607
John Ray 100 ac. Nov. 22, 1787 p. 609
Wm. Rhea 400 ac. March 1, 1794 p. 613
Thomas Ray, Jr. 50 ac. Mary 14, 1794 p. 616
Thomas Rhay 63.65 Feb 4, 1803
Arthur Ray 150 Dec 10, 1802








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