LAND: Clearfield County Land Warrants, Pennsylvania Archives Third Series, Volume 25, pp. 409-417 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ________________________________________________ PROVINCIAL PAPERS: WARRANTIES OF LAND IN THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA 1730-1898 --------- Edited by William Henry Engle, M.D., M.A. --------- PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES Third Series Volume 25 --------- Wm. Stanley Ray, State Printer of Pennsylvania 1898. 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 warrantee settled on the land if the land had changed hands before a warrant was applied for. WARRANTEES OF LAND IN THE COUNTY OF CLEARFIELD, 1806-1896 Name, Acres, Date of Survey. Askey, Robert, 400, May 20, 1818. Alexander, James, 150, April 9, 1834. Acherson, George, 400, Dec. 13, 1837. Andrews, W. J. B., & others, 100, Aug. 1, 1838. Atchenson, William, 50, Sept. 28, 1854. Allport, James Cramond, 200, July 30, 1857. Alexander, W. B., 3, Feb. 1, 1872. Arnold, Wm. C., 30, May 27, 1881. Bailey, Caleb, 390, Sept. 14, 1809. Bye, Hezekiah, 400, July 8, 1813. Bloom, Benjamin, 330, March 24, 1818. Bailey, Caleb, Jr., 300, April 13, 1824. Braucker, Daniel, 100, April 15, 1830. Brown & Fulton, 40, Oct. 19, 1830. Bell, John, & Greenwood, 400, Jan. 8, 1831. Burg, Jacob, Jr., 50, April 26, 1834. Brown, Thomas, 11, Dec. 26, 1835. Bell, Greenwood, 400, June 2, 1838. Brockway, John A., 300, June 18, 1838. Boon, Joseph, 400, June 30, 1838. Bigler, William, 400, Aug. 19, 1839. Brown, Austin S., 330, May 11, 1842. Beyer, David, 20, Sept. 13, 1842. Beyer, David, 17, March 11, 1843. Best, John M., 80, Aug. 28, 1844. Baily, Isaac, 133, May 19, 1845. Bally, Daniel, 115, Oct. 31, 1845. Baily, Daniel, 13, Nov. 13, 1845. Bennett, Joseph, 247, Dec. 22, 1845. Butler, Wm. G., 100, Aug. 31, 1849. Briel & Mulson, 190, Oct. 21, 1853. Bagshaw, Wm., Exr., in trust, &c., 227, Feb. 23, 1856. Burley, Jacob, 400, Oct. 3, 1859. Bigler, Wm. D., 185, July 13, 1867. Bell, Grier, 40, Sept. 13, 1867. Bell, Winfield S., 3, Oct. 2, 1873. Burge, Thomas, 113.120, Oct. 21, 1873. Bell, David, 100, Nov. 13, 1873. Bird, Lucien, 150, Nov. 13, 1874. Bell, John W., 12, Nov. 18, 1879. Bailey, Moses, 100, Dec. 29, 1880. Bailey, Moses, 100, March 20, 1881. Bigler, H. F., 50, June 23, 1881. Bigler, H. F., 50, June 23, 1881. Bird, Lucien, 50, March 16, 1882. Bloom, Isaiah, 40, Aug. 9, 1886. Bloom, Matilda M., 5, April 11, 1887. Bloom, Isaiah, & John A. Murray, 50, Feb. 24, 1870. Clark, Joseph, 317.120, April 11, 1816. Clark, Joseph, 314.22, May 13, 1816. Carson, Benjamin, 50, Dec. 12, 1829. Cross, William, 30, Nov. 17, 1830. Cochran, Samuel, 210, April 20, 1832. Custard, Arnold, 327 3/4, May 27, 1834. Campbell, John, Guardian, &c., 50, July 5, 1839. Caldwell, David, 195, Aug. 22, 1843. Crossman, Catharine, 356, May 15, 1854. Criswell, Jacob, 145, Nov. 8, 1856. Comstock, Joshua, 45, Aug. 19, 1863. Cree, William, 120, Jan. 4, 1867. Criswell, John, Sen'r, 75, Aug. 1, 1867. Coleman, Henry W., 118, Feb. 3, 1868. Chase, John M., 60, March 27, 1883. Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation, 400, May 14, 1894. Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation, 400, May 14, 1894. Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation, 400, May 14, 1894. Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation, 400, May 14, 1894. Dale, Sive, 100, July 19, 1828. Duttery, Christian, 250, Sept. 29, 1841. Dunlop, David, 400, Jan. 20, 1846. Dubois, John, 240, Dec. 4, 1851. Dubois, John, Jr., 260, Dec. 4, 1851. Dubois, John, Jr., 184.15, Aug. 16, 1853. Dubois, Abel, 950, June 26, 1860. Dubois, John, 147 1/2, June 11, 1872. Davis, Wm. B., 200, June 22, 1872. Dowler, James, and Sam'l Brady, admr., &c., 50, Feb. 20, 1883. England, Nun, 400, April 29, 1809. England, Job, 200, Dec. 6, 1813. Ellis, O. B., 100, Dec. 3, 1847. Emigh, Jonathan, 30, April 18, 1857. Fulton, Samuels, 320, Feb. 26, 1820. Ferguson, John, Jr., 100, April 11, 1823. Fagan, Harman, &c., 300, Sept. 22, 1837. Ferguson, James, in trust, &c., 155, Jan. 8, 1844. Fry, J., & Criswell, J., Sen'r, 400, Sept. 18, 1867. Fulkerson, Daniel, 20, Nov. 20, 1874. Feath, John P.,20, Sept. 1, 1882. Graham, Robert, 400, April 7, 1817. Gallaher, Crawford,. 400, April 9, 1828. Gallaher, Joseph W., 40, Oct. 21, 1851. Glasgow, And'w J., 125, March 5, 1853. Gallaher, J. Wilson, 100, Jan. 27, 1855. Gates, George, 125, June 12, 1857. Groe, Henry, 174.52, March 3, 1865. Goodlander, G. B., 342, Sept. 27, 1870. Griffith, Cornelius, 75, Aug. 3, 1891. Hall, Hugh, Esq., 400, Dec. 4, 1810. Hepburn, William, 400, June 4, 1821. Hoyt, John P., 100, June 25, 1821. Hoyt, John P., 40, Nov. 4, 1826. Hartshorn, Jonathan, 400, March 31, 1836. Hartshorn, William, 100, June 17, 1839. Hoyt, P. John, 13, Nov. 7, 1839. Hagerty, William, 68, Dec. 24, 1839. Hoover, Joseph, & S. Caldwell, 339 3/4, April 3, 1844. Hartshorn, Jonathan, 50, March 31, 1846. Hartshorn, Jonathan, 30, Sept. 22, 1846. Haymaker, Ephraim B., 20, Feb. 7, 1848. Hartshorn, Benj'n, 75, Jan. 5, 1849. Hoover, Geo. W., 32, Dec. 27, 1849. Hoyt, John P., Assignee of Joseph Wiley, 200, March 25, 1856. Hough, David,15, April 2, 1856. Hulbett, Andrew M., 55, July 7, 1856. Hagerty, Samuel, 400, Dec. 9, 1856. Hagerty, Samuel, 62, May 5, 1862. Hammond, Wm., 40, Aug. 19, 1863. Hoyt, David W., 260.147, Sept. 28, 1870. Heckendorn, George, 40, June 6, 1871. Hegarty, James, 2, Feb. 1, 1872. Hoover, Ross M., 33, Sept. 1, 1873. Hoyt, Allen V., 9 a. 6 1/2 ps., Jan. 22, 1874. Hoover, Wilson, 10, Feb. 27, 1874. Henderson, Thos., 95, April 1, 1874. Hale, John M., 210, Oct. 19, 1877. Irvine, Alexander, 150, Feb. 16, 1829. Irvine, Alexander, 104, Jan. 9, 1838. Johnson, James & Elab, 50, Oct. 29, 1841. Johnson, Elab, 100, Aug. 14, 1854. Jordon, John M., 30, Dec. 14, 1865. Irvin, E. A., 100, May 17, 1882. Kirk, Jason, 400, June 26, 1810. Kratzer, Christian, & others, 20, June 26, 1830. Kratzer, Christian, & others, 22, Oct. 8, 1830. Kyler, Leonard, 200, March 13, 1837. Kratzer, Christopher, 200, Sept. 17, 1838. Kyler, John B., 200, Dec. 5, 1851. Kuntz, Jacob, 22, June 23, 1855. Kerman, Michael, 400, June 4, 1856. Killmar, Henry, 15, Aug. 6, 1860. Kephart, Daniel, 200, Dec. 2, 1864. Kephart, George W., 28, March 5, 1890. Leonard, William, 50, Feb. 23, 1819. Leonard, Jas. T., & Sam'l Clyde, 250, July 10, 1830. Loyd, John A., & Jos. Vandyke, 12.151, July 5, 1833. Litch, Rudolph, 60, Jan. 21, 1838. Long, Elias, 400, May 27, 1847. Lowe, Elias S., 233, Nov. 4, 1859. Long, Arthur B., 135, Sept. 19, 1860. Long, Arthur B" 65, Oct. 31, 1860. Luther, William, 20, May 14, 1872. Lee, Newton, 10, Aug. 18, 1896. Mitchell, David, 400, Dec. 8, 1824. Mitchell, David, 150, May 27, 1828. McGhee, James, 50, July 1, 1830. Morey, Erasmus, 40, Oct. 3, 1832. Morey, Erasmus, 100, Oct. 3, 1832. MacManus, James, 70, Dec. 10, 1834. Mitchell, Jos., & others, in trust, 134, Feb. 28, 1838. McPherson, John, & Moses Fulton, 245, May 18, 1838. Morey, Leonard, 70, May 29, 1839. Mix, James, 100, May 28, 1840. McGhee, Thos. C., 77, July 24, 1848. McKean, Robt. H., 52, Feb. 5, 1850. Miller, John W., 5, Dec. 6, 1850. Mason, George, 90, Oct. 1, 1856. Mason, George, 140, March 9, 1859. Miller, Ewen L., 40, Nov. 26, 1859. Meckley, Sam'l T., 75, June 18, 1860. McCloskey, S. F., 30, Aug. 1, 1867. McMurray,. Joseph R., 60, April 8, 1868. McGarvey, John W., 150, Sept. 14, 1871. McGarvey, John W., 200, Oct. 12, 1871. McGee, James W., & James Mitchell, 73, Oct. 16, 1871. Mitchell, Robert, 103 ps., April 27, 1872. Moore, Thos. W., 30, Jan. 18, 1873. Moore, Thos. W., 400, Sept. 1, 1873. Moore, Thos. W., 350, Oct. 3, 1873. Martin, John J., 40, March 12, 1874. Mitchell, James, 20, Aug. 18, 1875. Martin, John J., & J. F. Mears, 30, June 15, 1877. Mitchell, James, 40, Dec. 11, 1879. Moore, Thos. W., 40, Jan. 2, 1883. Nutter, E. T., 400, June 22, 1872. Owens, John, 373, Nov. 14, 1807. O'Shell, James, 6, March 10, 1856. Ogden, Abraham, 240, June 20, 1864. Paxon, James, 200, Oct. 28, 1815. Philips, Hardman, 80, Dec. 2, 1820. Philips, Hardman, 400, Dec. 2, 1820. Passmore, Abraham, 400, March 31, 1836. Phelps, Anson G., 600, Oct. 24, 1853. Patchin, S C., 225, Oct. 3, 1855. Pruner, E. J., 300, Oct. 3, 1859. Rogers, Daniel, 400, Aug. 23, 1813. Reed, A., & J. Fulton, 171, Dec. 15, 1830. Reed, Thomas, 130, March 29, 1836. Rernburg, John, 100, May 29, 1837. Ritner, Peter, in trust, &c., 87, March 10, 1837. Rothrock, Sarah, 275, April 21, 1841. Reed, Alexander, 34, Feb. 28, 1842. Reed, Alexander B., 98, Sept. 11, 1848. Ross, John, 46, May 17, 1850. Rehrer & Dock, 474, Sept. 6, 1856. Rothrock, Joseph, 100, Oct. 18, 1856. Reed, George L., 300, Dec. 17, 1866. Rowland, William, 200, Jan. 4, 1867. Ream, William A., 5.75, April 8, 1868. Smith, John, 200, Nov. 29, 1828. Smith, Charles, & others, 345.45, June 9, 1830. Smiley, Robert M., 400, Dec. 23, 1835. Spencer, Samuel, 400, April 1, 1836. Shoemaker, Edward, 100, Sept. 22, 1836. Shoemaker, Edward, 375, Sept. 22, 1836. Smith, John, 50, May 31, 1837. Smith, Josiah W., 400, Jan. 19, 1839. Smith, Josiah W., 100, March 16, 1839. Smith, Josiah W., 300, Aug. 2, 1839. Spangle, Samuel, 40 1/2, May 15, 1843. Smith, Josiah W., 200, Dec. 29, 1845. Sabin, Ira A., 230, July 15, 1848. Shaw, Richard, 40, Sept. 25, 1848. Smith, Josiah W., 170, Noc. [sic] 19, 1849. Smith, Josiah W., 400, Aug. 9, 1850. Smith, Josiah W., 36, Aug. 9, 1850. Slappy, Christ'r, 30, Oct. 15, 1852. Smith, Josiah W., 120, Aug. 12, 1854. Sunderlin, David, 200, April 16, 1855. Schoonover, Briant B., 200, Sept. 18, 1857. Shoff, Samuel, 12, April 28, 1859. Shoff, Frederick, 400, May 15, 1867. Sunderland, James, 300, June 28, 1867. Shaw, Porter S., 20, March 25, 1872. Sutton, Henry E., 318, Aug. 29, 1873. Swan, J. H., 50, April 18, 1882. Snyder, Adam, 45, June 16, 1882. Sankey, Jeremiah A., 5, Aug. 9, 1887. Sharer, Jerry, 13, Feb. 23, 1892. Turner, Joseph, 400, July 2, 1830. Turner, Joseph, 400, July 3, 1830. Turner, Joseph, 400, July 6, 1830. Tate, Samuel, 30, Aug. 28, 1834. Tate, William, Jr., 100, June 14, 1836. Thomas, Samuel, 232, April 6, 1841. Thompson, Sam'l C., 179, Oct. 7, 1856. Thomas, Robert, 50, April 27, 1864. Thompson, R. C., 50, Nov. 3, 1873. Taylor, Richard B., & C. H. Briggs, 50, March 16, 1877. Thompson, R. C., 50, Jan. 23, 1880. Ulmer, David, 72, July 29, 1840. Witmer, Abraham, 327.80, Dec. 22, 1806. Witmer, Abraham, Esq., 278.131, June 25, 1808. Whitacre, Joseph, 200, Jan. 30, 1810. Weaver, John, 105, April 29, 1829. Witmer, David, Exr., &c., 280.40, March 28, 1831. Winslow, Reuben & Ebenezer C., 100, March 4, 1833. Wheeler, David, 100, March 30, 1837. Welsh, Geo. & James, 350, Sept. 22, 1837. Winslow, R. & E., 275, Aug. 15, 1838. Winslow, Reuben, 200, March 20, 1839. Winslow, Reuben, 60, April 24, 1839. Winslow, Reuben, 225, Aug. 3, 1839. Wright, K. A., 180, Sept. 15, 1841. Wilters, John B., 100, May 25, 1846. Willard, 700 Nov. 3, 1852. Weld, L. D., 25, May 27, 1853. Winn, Catharine, 90, June 12, 1854. Wetzel, Henry, 24, Jan. 9, 1860. Williams, Charles, 300, Aug. 27, 1863. Wise, Jacob, 150, Sept. 28, 1864. Wallace, Wm. A., 280, March 1, 1865. Wetzel, Enoch B., 30, Oct. 24, 1867. Wetzel, Henry, 42, March 2, 1869. Wagner, Wm. H., 28, Aug. 23, 1869. Winn, Catharine, 98.17, Jan. 20, 1870. Walters, J. Blake, 20, Dec. 21, 1871. Walters, J. Blake, 100, Nov. 5, 1873. Walters, J. Blake, 40, April 6, 1877. Younkers, Joseph, 30, Dec. 6, 1855. Zartman, Samuel, 78, April 14, 1837. Zeigler, Frederick, 100, June 30, 1854. Zeigler, Frederick, 50, Jan. 8, 1855.