Warrant to survey land for John Stewart [I00249] in Wheatfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, which would later become Buffington Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

1797 13th Feb’ry Westmoreland 300 acres John Stewart Retd [...] 26th March 1797 No. 426.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ss.

Whereas John Stewrt of the county of ___ hath requested to take up Three hundred acres of land Including an Improvement situate on the Waters of Black Lick adjoining lands of Charles Stewart, William Shaff and other in Wheatfield Township in the county of Westmoreland (provide the land is not with in the last purchase made of the Indians) for which he agrees to pay immediately, into the office of the Receiver General, for the use of this state, at the rate of fifty shillings per hundred acres, in gold, silver, paper money of this state, or certificates; agreeable to an Act of Assembly, passed the first day of April, 1784; and to an Act, passed the third day of April, 1792, entitled “An Act for the sale of vacant lands within this Commonwealth.” Interest to commence from the first of September 1793. These are, therefore, to authorise and require you to survey, or cause to be surveyed, unto the said John Stewart at the place aforesaid, according to the method of townships appointed, the said quantity of acres, if not already surveyed or appropriated, and to make return thereof into the Secretary’s Office, in order for confirmation; for which this shall be your warrant.

In Witness whereof Thomas Mifflin Governor of the said commonwealth, hath hereunto set his hand, and caused the less seal of the said commonwealth to be affixed, the thirteen day of February in the year 1797.

To Daniel Brodhead, Esquire, Surveyor-General.

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, 1797.