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Also see this site for a description of the Pennsylvania land acquisition process. If your ancestor was actually a first landowner, purchasing his or her property from the colony or state of Pennsylvania, further information about these tracts may be gleaned from the Westmoreland, Allegheny, Lycoming, Venango or Northumberland County Registers contained on our CD, First Landowners of PA: Colonial and State Warrant Registers in the PA Archives, Harrisburg, 1682-ca 1940. Thus, all of these counties should be checked for deeds and wills, etc. Allegheny was created from Westmoreland County in 1788. Venango County was created from Allegheny and Lycoming Counties in 1800, and Lycoming was created from Northumberland in 1795.

Once you click on an image and it is on your screen, it can usually be enlarged by clicking on the image, and it may be saved to your computer by right-clicking and selecting 'Save Image As.' We hope that they will be useful tools for locating your Venango County families when coupled with the 18 censuses.

These maps are located in the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, Washington, D.C. We are therefore posting images from two maps of Venango County, one published in 1857 and one published in 1865.

Our goal at Ancestor Tracks is to publish maps and land ownership information allowing researchers to place more precisely the locations where our ancestors lived. We are posting links to each of these warrantee maps below. Venango County Resources for Use with 18 Censusįortunately for Venango County researchers, the Pennsylvania Land Office completed excellent Township Warrantee Maps of Venango County and they have graciously posted them online.

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