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To avoid overloading the Land Office, the new application system was first implemented for settled unwarranted land on the eastern side of the Susquehanna River and was extended to the lands on the western side of the river in 1766.
31 Μαΐ 2021 · Because the land office and customs office were located in Philadelphia, the commercial focus shifted away from New Castle, which had been the seat of administration and port of entry for the Delaware River settlements.
6 Ιουν 2024 · This guide refers to Delaware land records, 1682 to 1759, found in New York and Pennsylvania, and mentions microfilm copies of the records at the Delaware Public Archives.
A list of 7,208 warrantouped by cs, surveys and miscellaneous papers relating to lands located in the three lower counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex of Pennsylvania that were later transferred to the state of Delaware.
City of New Castle National Park Service: Putting It All Together Historical Society of Pennsylvania: William Penn’s first landing in America at New Castle, Delaware
In 1681 William Penn convinced the English Crown to grant him a charter to 45,000 square miles on the western side of the Delaware River, with a southern boundary on the river twelve miles north of New Castle.
In 1750, the center of the circle was fixed at the cupola of the courthouse in New Castle. The Twelve-Mile Circle continues into the Delaware River. A small portion of the circle, known as the "Arc Line," forms part of the Mason-Dixon line in the United States that separates Delaware and Maryland.
