1914 Warrantee Atlas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

This is a full-color facsimile of the Warrantee Atlas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, constructed from the records on file in the Department of Internal Affairs and from surveys made on the ground in 1909, 1910 and 1912, under the direction of Henry Houck, Secretary of Internal Affairs, and published by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg in 1914. All fifty-one plates are reproduced in color from the State Library of Pennsylvania copy, together with the printed table of contents.

A warrantee atlas is not a map of who owned the land when it was printed. It maps the original land grants: each plate shows the first warrants and surveys laid over the modern township and borough lines, with every tract lettered and keyed to a margin note giving the warrantee's name, the warrant and survey dates, the patentee, the acreage and the patent book reference. For Allegheny County that means the ground under Pittsburgh and its suburbs traced back to the Penns, the Depreciation and Reserve Tracts, and the settlers of the 1780s and 1790s.

The City of Pittsburgh fills eight plates, with McKeesport, Turtle Creek and the Neville Island and river-bed plates alongside. Every township is mapped: Aleppo, Baldwin, Bethel, Chartiers, Collier, Crescent, Elizabeth, Fawn, Findley, Forward, Franklin, Hampton, Harmar, Harrison, Indiana, Jefferson, Kennedy, Kilbuck, Leet, Lincoln, Marshall, McCandless, Mifflin, Moon, Neville, North and South Fayette, North and South Versailles, O'Hara, Ohio, Patton, Penn, Pine, Plum, Reserve, Richland, Robinson, Ross, Scott, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights, Shaler, Snowden, Springdale, Stowe, Union, Upper and Lower St. Clair, West Deer and Wilkins, and the boroughs from Aspinwall and Avalon through Braddock, Carnegie, Coraopolis, Homestead, McKees Rocks, Sewickley, Tarentum and Wilkinsburg appear within them.

For anyone tracing a family or a title in Allegheny County back to its first settlement, these plates give the chain from warrant to patent for every original tract. An essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania history.

56 pages. 8.5" x 8.5". Full color. Paperback.

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