Land Transaction Caveats (1748-61): Chester County, PA Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Fred Kelso (Pennsylguy@aol.com) Copyright 2004. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************* From the “Pennsylvania Archives, Series 3, Volume 2: Caveat Books No. 1 & 2, 1748-1784” - exceptions (caveats) taken to land transactions in Chester County (only those explicitly noted as Chester County, though not necessarily a complete list), addressed to Nicholas Scull, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania by the acting Secretary of the Land Office (Richard Peters, Richard Tea, or William Peters) Extracted by Fred Kelso (Pennsylguy@aol.com) Jun 14, 1748 John Miller, Sen’r this day entered a caveat against the surveying a tract of land of about fifty acres in West Caln Township, Chester County, lately to Thomas Clark by Warrant of the first Instant which is not to be executed till the parties be heard. p. 167 Sep 23, 1748 Thomas Robinson this day entered a caveat against the execution of an order lately issued in favour of John Thomas for surveying to the Proprietaries use about two hundred acres of land near the Great Valley in Chester County supposed to be vacant, but Mr. Robinson says it is within the lines of a tract formerly patented to one Thomas Simmonds now belonging to him. p. 169 Oct 13, 1748 John Alexander enters a caveat against Moses Steet granted and ordered that Steet warrant for fifteen acres adjoining David White in London Briatin Township, Chester County, be not executed as the land is to the south of the temporary line and not vacant. p. 169 Jan 7, 1748 Robert Hamble enters a caveat against any survey being made or return’d on ny land adjoining his 200 a’s tract in West Fallowfield Township, Chester County, to William Marsh or any one in his right, for that the s’d Hamble has a warr’t for ye said land and Marsh has not. p. 170 Mar 25, 1749 Moses Steet enters a caveat against any land to be granted to John Alexander in Little Britain Township, Chester County. p. 171 Apr 6, 1749 Mr. Scull: Suffer no surveys of John Potts’ in right of original purchases to be received into your office without first exemining wether there have not been warrants for the same land, for I here this day produce to me a writing drawn as I think by Robert Grace and sign’d John Potts for a tract of land belonging to the late Lewis David in Chester County y’y has been granted by warrant of the 15th day of December, 1718, and surveyed regularly and held by a good sort of people who made valuable improvements on it ever since that time, this is my reason for this caveat. p. 171 Jul 22, 1749 William Anderson enters a caveat against Finley McGrew’s obtaining a vacating warrant or any other warrant for the land of one John Longhard in Nottingham Township, Chester County the right whereof being vested in Longhard’s son. pp. 172-73 Dec 20, 1749 William Ewing enters a caveat against John Dunwoody survey lately mde for him, may not be received, in Nantmel Township, Chester County, and as Benjamin Lightfoot who surveyed it is in town take his examination that the affair may if possible be decided. pp. 174-75 Mar 12, 1749 James Guest, purchaser of John Jones’s plantation in Whiteland Township, Chester County, enters a caveat against the said John Jones’s obtaining a warrant or order for the survey or resurvey of any land contiguous to its part or said to be part of land surveyed formerly to Richard Anderson. pp. 175-76 Dec 15, 1750 John Hanning enters a caveat against a warant granted to Robert Chalfont, dated the 6th of March last for forty acres in Bradford Township, Chester County, for that he has a right to William Keech’s warrant for the same land dated the 27th day of November, 1736. p. 179 Dec 29, 1750 John Hanning enters a caveat against any surveys made that may interfere with John Packois land situate in Chester County, surveyed by virtue of an original right and a Proprietary Warrant of John Hanum’s, dated the 12th of January, 1744. p. 179 Apr 6, 1751 James McCullock enters a caveat against the acceptance of a survey of fifty acres of land in Fallowfield Township, Chester County, granted by warrant of the 28th of March last to James Vogan. p. 180 May 3, 1751 William Morrow enters a caveat against the acceptance of a survey made for William Hay, Deputy Sheriff of Chester County for about 250 as. of land in Fallowfield Township, whose warrant is dated the 13th of February last the said William Morrow having a legal claim thereto as he says. p. 181 May 4, 1751 John McCarty enters a caveat against George Baldwin praying that a survey lately made for said Baldwin for land in East Bradford Township, Chester County, adjoining Anthony Dougherty & Daniel Hoops may not be accepted till he be heard, said McCarty having a prior warrant. p. 181 May 15, 1751 James Ogilvy enters a caveat against the acceptance of a survey lately made for Job Rushton by a warrant dated the 9th of July, 1745, in Londonderry Township, Chester County, the said Ogilvy having a prior warrant for the same land. p. 182 May 15, 1751 William Glenn enters a caveat against the acceptance of a survey made for John Rushton in Londonderry Township, Chester County, for that Hugh McPhelemy, dec’d, whose widow the said Glenn since married had a prior warrant for the same. p. 182 Apr 14, 1752 William Ram enters a caveat against the execution of any warrant that shall interfere with his land & plantation granted him by a warrant of the 26th of March, 1751, in Fallowfield Township, Chester County. p. 189 Dec 9, 1752 John Knowles & Charles Grant enter a caveat against the issuing of any warrant or patent or order of survey to Enoch Elliott for a tract belong’g to some Sweedes between Tennicum & Boone’s Island in Chester County. p. 191 Mar 19, 1753 Thomas Clarke enters a caveat against acceptance of any survey of a tract of land adjoining his other land on the south east side thereof in West Caln Township, Chester Co. p. 194 Mar 20, 1753 Lewis Walker enters a caveat against the acceptance of a survey made for George Taylor for about 200 as. in Coventry Township, Chester County, by virtue of a warrant dated the 16th day of February, 1735, granted to Samuel Savage & prays that a patent may not issue to George Taylor till the parties be heard at the Land Office. p. 194 Apr 4, 1753 James Dunlap enters a caveat against the execution of a warrant granted to Archibald Woodside the 22d March, 1750, for twenty acres of land in Londonderry Township, Chester Co., till the parties be heard at the Land Office. p. 195 Jan 15, 1754 Thomas Taylor, Benjamin Taylor & Enoch Elliot enter a caveat against the acceptance of a survey lately made on a part of Tenicum island situate in one of the branch of Darby Creek in the County of Chester, opposite to Morton Morton & Charles Grantham, and pray that no return may be made of the same for the use of any person till the matters in dispute between them and Abel Jenny & others be heard at the Land Office. p. 202 Jan 26, 1754 David Henderson enters a caveat against the execution of a warrant granted to John Park the twenty fourth instant, for twenty acres in Fallowfield Township, Chester County, the said land being already surveyed and now belonging to the said Henderson. p. 202 Mar 12, 1754 John Roberts enters a caveat against the acceptance of a survey made for Thomas Robinson in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, in pursuance of an order of the 28th January last till the parties be heard at the Land Office. p. 203 Oct 10, 1754 Morris Morgan enters a caveat against the acceptance of a survey made for Joseph Adams in West Fallowfield Township, Chester County, or against any warrant being granted to said Adams for the same, said Morgan having a prior right. p. 207 Oct 25, 1754 John Minshall enters a caveat against the acceptance of a survey made by William Kelley by warrant of the 12th of this instant October, of two hundred acres or thereabouts in Whiteland Township, Chester County, said Minshall claiming the same as overplus land and prays that no patent may issue to the said Kelley till ye parties be heard at the Land Office. p. 209 Mar 1, 1755 John Douglass enters a caveat against any survey being made to John Steward for land in Londonderry Towns’p, Chester County till the parties be heard at the Land Office, said Douglass having the prior right to the same. p. 210 Mar 29, 1757 Joseph Haines enters a caveat against any survey being made to Joseph Smith in pursuance of a warrant dated 12 instant, for 250 as. land in West Nottingham Township, Chester County, the said Joseph Haines having a prior right for part of said land, till the parties are heard at the Land Office. p. 218 May 24, 1757 Benton Davis enters a caveat against Richard Saunderson, formerly Ranger of Richland Manor, or any other persons obtaining a patent for a tract of land situate in Concord Township, Chester County, surveyed and granted by a warrant of the ------ to James Chevers, until the parties have a hearing at the Land Office. p. 219 Aug 16, 1757 John & Thomas Taylor, sons of Thomas Taylor, decd, of Ridley Township, Chester County, renew the caveat enter’d by their father and Enoch Elliot, of Darby Township, against Charles Granthom, John Knowles & all others, praying that no warrant or confirmation may issue to them or any of them for any part of Tinicum Island, in Ridley Township, Chester County. pp. 220-21 Aug 24, 1757 Hugh McReary enters a caveat agt. A survey made for Samuel Jackson, on one hundred acres in East Nottingham Township, Chester Co., in right of Widow Boyde, alledging that she had no title to ye land in her. p. 221 Feb 17, 1758 John Wells enters a caveat against Thomas Miller, or any person claiming under him, obtaining any survey or confirmation of land adjoining northward by land of said Miller, eastward by land of s’d Wells & southward by land of Christian Perry, in Coventry Township, Chester County, which Thomas Miller pretends to claim under an old warrant of 500 as. granted to him about the year 1717 which has been executed and the land regularly return’d into the Survey’r General’s Office, the above-mentioned land has been since surveyed to Mich’l Miller by warr’t of the 15th Feb’y, 1737, which is now vested in s’d J. Wells. p. 222 Feb 27, 1758 William Hetherling enters a caveat against the execution of a warrant granted 26 of January last , to Peter Hook, for 50 as in Coventry Township, Chester County, as the same taken in the improvement of the said Wm. Aetherling, who applied for a warrant for the said land in the year 1753, which cou’d not be obtained by reason of its being within seven miles of the Iron Works, and prays that the parties may have a hearing at the Land Office. p. 222 May 17, 1759 Alexander Wilson enters a caveat against Henry & John Hetherington’s obtaining a confirmation of a tract of near 500 acres of land situate in West Fallowfield Township, in the County of Chester, surveyed to them in pursuance of a warr’t for 200 as. dated 15 March, 1749, the said Wilson having a warrant for 50 as. part of s’d land long before their survey was made, and desires that the parties may have a hearing at the Land Office. p. 228 Mar 17, 1760 John Priest in right of Sarah Priest late Sarah Pleadwell daugh’t of Edward Pleadwell enters a caveat against Joseph Wood or any other person claiming any part of a tract of land on Octoraro Creek formerly in Chester Co. now in Lancaster County, surveyed for 200 a’s to Edward Pleadwell, his wife’s Father as part of seven hundred acres granted to him by warrant of 10th July 17__. pp. 237-38 Jun 21, 1760 David Brooks enters a caveat agains the surveying a tract of land of about eight acres situate in Fallowfield Township, Chester County to Andrew Reid, the said Brooks having as he says a prior right thereto. p. 240 Apr 23, 1761 Edward Bennet of Sadsbury Township, Chester County, enters a caveat against any survey being accepted or patent to John Parkes and Joseph Parkes, or any other person for a tract of land of about five hundred acres in Sadsbury Township, in the said County, which was granted by warrant to Edward Bennet, his Grand Father, dated the 27th March, in the year 1714, and which he now claims under the will of his said Grand Father and by descent from his Father and Uncle Edward Bennet. p. 248 May 15, 1761 Joseph Pagth & John Pank enter a caveat against the acceptance of any survey or patent being granted to Edward Bennet, or any other person or persons for any part of a tract of 376 acres situate in West Fallowfield Township, Chester County, which they claim part under a patent and the remainder under Proprietary Warrants. p. 249 Dec 17, 1761 Andrew Walker enters a caveat against the acceptance of two surveys made by George Churchman, dep’y Surveyor for Andrew McDowell, situate in Oxford Township, Chester County, and also against the granting a patent to s’d McDowell for a tract of land in East Nottingham Township, in s’d County til the parties have a hearing at the Office. p. 256