Upper Merion Digital Archives
Floating tracts, Valley Forge National Historical Park
Note: in these deed histories distances are quoted in perches (p) of length 16.5 feet. Areas are quoted in acres (a) and square perches (p). There are 160 square perches to an acre. In a few cases roods (a quarter of an acre) are also used.
Deed Files
- FT - see Forge Tracts for deed history
- Cotton Mill tract
- Encampment Interior
- King of Prussia
- Mount Joy
- Outer Line
- Port Kennedy
- Radnor Road
- Washington's HQ area
Deeds copies from V59-484
Floating tracts | |||||
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Area |
Cost |
Reference |
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Map tile #? | |||||
John Wilkinson |
Elizabeth Hodgdon & Jane Stimson, daughters |
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130a |
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died intestate, no purchase deed found |
Elizabeth Hodgdon |
Louis Wernwag |
11/17/1818 |
1/2 of 130a |
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44-419 |
Louis Wernweg |
John Jacobs, John Morgan, & John Bannon |
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assignment; Philadephia deed I. W. #3-5 |
John Jacobs, John Morgan, & John Bannon |
William Wheeler |
1/5/1829 |
1/8 part |
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44-421 |
William & Catharine Wheeler |
Alexander Kennedy |
5/7/1823? |
1/8 part |
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44-424 |
Alexander Kennedy |
7 children |
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died intestate |
David R. Kennedy, Margaret Kennedy, Horatio & Elizabeth Supplee, Jane, Alexander & John Kennedy |
William Kennedy |
6/25/1833 |
1/8 part of 130a |
$980 |
49-320 |
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Map tile #? | |||||
Francis Kile, sheriff |
William M. Stephens |
3/1/1862 |
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sheriff's deed C (or 6)-331 |
| Molony Elizabeth M |
Bernard McMenamin |
8/13/1868 |
25a 153p |
$816 |
193-54 |
Bernard McMenamin |
George W. Pawling |
4/30/1894 |
25a 153p |
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395-121 |
Map tile #? | |||||
Bernard McMenamin |
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
7/9/1906 |
9.814a |
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558-84 |
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Map tile #? | |||||
| David & William M. Stephens, executors of the will of Abijah Stephens | Isaac Miller | 1/10/1835 | |||
| Isaac Miller | Isaac Sharpless | 1/12/1839 | 2a 119p | $266 | 56-497 |
| Isaac Sharpless | William Holloway | 9/10/1839 | 2a 119p | $300 | 56-496 |
| William Holloway | Samuel Jarrett | 9/29/1865 | 2a 119p | $342 | 139-429 |
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| Alexander D. Irwin | Cabot, Cabot, & Forbes trust | 11/1/1957 | 2833-394 | ||
| Cabot, Cabot, & Forbes | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania | 10/11/1966 | 1.3918a (Valley Forge Road) + 0.9274a (County Line Road) | $1 | 4464-314 |
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| Margaret Kennedy, Edwin Moore, Jacob Highley executors of the estate of John Kennedy | James Robinson | 3/14/1878 | woodland | ||
| Samuel Fetters, assignee of James Robinson | Robert Robinson | 3/31/1879 | 2a 112p + 2a 112p | $50 | 383-475 |
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Reading Company |
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
5/6/1949 |
0.09a |
$18 |
2006-26 |
Charles Shepard & Joseph Brower. administrators of the estate of Abraham Brower |
Edward B. English |
5/7/1874 |
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217-432 |
Missing deeds | |||||
4 - 1897 tract | |||||
5 - 1897 tract | |||||
10 - 1897 tract | |||||
13 - 1897 tract | |||||
24 - Matthias P. Walker tract | |||||
28 - 1897 tract | |||||
45 - 1897 tract | |||||
46 - 1897 tract | |||||
47 - Mary E. S. Davis | |||||
55 - Keech tract | |||||
73 - heirs of Benjamin F. Fisher | |||||
86 - Paul Lemen | |||||
88 - F & E White | |||||
89 - Elizaberh Irwin | |||||
91 - Eliza Brittain | |||||
92 - F. Powell | |||||
93 - Archibald Irwin | |||||
96 - Eastern Real Estate | |||||
98 - Washington Memorial chapel | |||||
99 - William M. Stephens | |||||
109 - Edward & Elizabeth Law | |||||
113 - Ruth McQuiston | |||||
117 - Rev. Herman Burk | |||||
118 - Star Redoubt | |||||
125 - Washington's HQ | |||||
127 - John Rex | |||||
128 - Shoddy mill tract | |||||
