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Subject: [RHEA-L] Indiana Pa. Land Records
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 14:02:21 EDT

Indiana County PA Land WarrantsIndiana County, PennsylvaniaLand Warrants
from the PA Archives, Third Series, Volume XXVI.
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 surevyed. 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.
Note: Indiana County was formed on 30 March 1803 from Westmoreland County
and Lycoming County.

Indiana Pa. Land Records

Rhea, Samuel 219 FEB 6,
1828

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