![]() ![]() For the missing townships, you may contact Ancestor Tracks. Other repositories which contain some or all of his work are the Pennsylvania Archives in Harrisburg (350 North St., Harrisburg, PA email: the Lebanon County Historical Society (924 Cumberland Street, Lebanon, PA 17042) and the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society (2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster, PA 17602). The Family History Library has 13 of his 16 booklets (lacking only Cornwall & West Cornwall, Jackson, and South Londonderry Townships), and you may request copies of a limited number of pages from them. Wolfson informs us that the Library of Congress has a complete set of his work. Wolfson’s booklets are out of print and he has no plans at this time to republish them. The charts accompanying the maps, of course, include far more information. A copy of one of his maps is above-if you click on the image, you will be able to see how important his work is. The survey reference is particularly important since the Pennsylvania Archives in Harrisburg has posted them online. Wolfson showing the original tracts, as well as charts documenting the warrantee and patentee of each tract the size and name of the tract the warrant, survey and patent dates and the survey book and page number where the surveys are recorded. Each of his booklets includes a map drawn by Mr. Short booklets, one for each township, which the serious researcher of early landowners of the area simply must not ignore. He published his research in a series of excellent Wolfson of Fresno, CA, spent a number of years documenting the warrantees and patentees of the townships of Lebanon County. We are incredibly fortunate, however, that James B. Unfortunately, Pennsylvania did not plat the tracts of the earliest landowners of Northampton County. The state of Pennsylvania began platting the exact metes-and-bounds tracts of the earliest landowners, township-by-township, starting in 1907, but the Land Office only completed about 1/3 of the state before the project ended. Our goal at Ancestor Tracks is to publish maps and land ownership information allowing genealogy researchers to pinpoint the locations where our ancestors lived. Index to James Wolfson's Warrantee Maps, plus 1875 Atlas of Lebanon County Lebanon County Warrantee Index, 1875 Atlas ![]()
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