Warrant to survey land for Charles Stewart [I00260] and William Holmes in Wheatfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, which would later become Buffington Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

1785 Aug 29th Westmoreland 345 ac William Holmes and Charles Stewart
Retd Re 13th August 1807
No. One hund. forty-nine

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ss.

Whereas Wm Holmes and Chas Stewart of the County of ___ have requested to take up Three hundred and forty five Acres of Land, on the waters of Black Lick on the west side of Brakins Mill Creek about two miles from the Mill House below and adjoining land surveyed by or for Isaiah Jones in the County of Westmoreland (Provided the Land is not wihin the last purchase made of the Indians) for which they agree to pay immediately into the Office of the Receiver-General, for the use of this State, at the rate of Ten Pounds 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, Interest to commence from the date hereof These are, therefore, to authorise and require you to Survey, or cause to be Surveyed unto the said William Jolmes and Charles 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 his Excellency John Dickinson, esq President of Supreme Executive Coucil, hath hereunto set his Hand, and caused the less Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed, the Twenty ninth Day of August in the Year 1785.

To John Lukens, esq. 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. William Holmes and Charles Stewart, Wheatfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, 1785.