(PENNSYLVANIA) [Cookson Thomas] Field notes for Pennsylvania

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(PENNSYLVANIA.) [Cookson, Thomas?] Field notes for Pennsylvania surveys taken just before the arrival of the Susquehanna Company. 36 manuscript pages plus original 13-page index and many blank leaves. 8vo, contemporary limp vellum, moderate wear; lacking pages 12-13 mentioned in index. Vp, January to March 1753

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Survey field notes for privately held tracts in various Pennsylvania towns including Leacock, Donegal, Derry, Paxtang, and Conestoga, scattered through east-central Pennsylvania. Intriguingly, the back cover is inscribed "East side Susquehanna," and the entries were made just months before the foundation of the Susquehanna Company brought many settlers into the area. As most of the surveyed properties belong to men with German names, we gather that these surveys were not connected with the Connecticut project.
The surveyor's name is not given here (though "P. Carnachan" is written in red on the rear cover), but the survey on page 16 was apparently entered into a court case in 1783: "It appears by the Copy of the field Notes of Thomas Cookson that [George] Mink's Warrant was surveyed on land adjoining this in dispute in the Year 1753." See Egle, "Minutes of the Board of Property and Other References to Lands in Pennsylvania," page 439.