Request to survey land for John Stewart [I00249] in Wheatfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, which would later become Buffington Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Includes an affidavit signed by Joseph McCartney, an original settler of the area. John Stewart had occupied and improved the land since 1 September 1793.

John Stewart makes application for Three Hundred acres of Land on the waters of Black Lick adjoining Lands of Charles Stewart and Wm Shaff and others in Wheatfield Township Westmoreland County.

Westmoreland County Pa. Int from the 1st of Sept 1793 […]

We the subscribing Justices in and for said County Do Certify that according to our knowledge the above Described Tract of Land was Improved in September Ninety three and a family living thereon ever since and grain raised thereon every year since, given under our hands this 26th day of December 1796. Joseph McCartney […]

Wheatfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA

Source: Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952 [database on-line]. Ancestry.com. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. John Stewart, Wheatfield Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, 1796.