#1 Henry's 1747 Warrant is present-day Palmerton
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| November 1743 Survey map of Nathaniel Irish's 1742 Warrant for 225 acres "situate on Aquanshekalo Creek." Irish's property adjoins Lewis Gordon's to the east. Nathaniel Irish had another tract of 200 acres warranted in 1738 [click the link] to the west of this 225 acre tract which Palmerton Station was situated on in 1923*. The tracts of John Balliet and Bernard Bowman separate Nathaniel Irish's two tracts. The statement that runs along the bottom of Irish's land is "This part of Draft obliterated and no record of same to be found" so the bottom boundary of Irish's property is not available--except from one of the deeds conveying the patent or property in later years. *1923 book commemorating the Silver Anniversary of the Founding of Palmerton, 1898-1923
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May 1748 Survey map of Lewis Gordon's 1745
Warrant of 63 acres "situate on Aquanshekalo Creek beyond the Blue Mountain."
Henry "Sylvias's" property plainly adjoins Lewis Gordon's on the east.
Lewis Gordon was later a Justice of the Peace and Recorder of Deeds for early Northampton County.
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May 1748 Survey map of #1 Henry's 1747 Warrant "situate on Aquanshekalo Creek." Lewis Gordon's property adjoined Henry's on the west. Another survey map was made which shows that Lewis Gordon's property was occupied by Strall. I believe the second survey map was made either when Henry sold this tract to the Beyers in 1769 or when Frederick Beyer patented the land in 1812. In Frederick Beyer's Patent, it says that this portion of the land was adjoined to Strall. I believe the survey map showing Strall on Lewis Gordon's land shows a better picture of the creek running through the property. Click here to see this map in a separate window. |
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| The gold area is the 1747 Warrant of #1 Henry. The gray-green tracts are the tracts that Frederick Beyer patented in 1812, which included #1 Henry's warrant, which Frederick bought on behalf of himself and the other heirs of his father, Henry Beyer. I believe that some part of this land of Frederick's was originally the land his father, Henry, had improved with the plan to apply for a warrant. More below
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| This view shows the neighboring tracts of #1 Henry (gold). Lewis Gordon's land is immediately to the west of Henry (beige) and to the west of that (cream color) is Nathaniel Irish's land. By mapping the neighbors to the west and to the east of Henry's land I believe I am able to place #1 Henry's land as close as possible to how it once was. It is very hard to match the position of the tracts to the position of Aquashicola Creek in survey maps to how the creek is actually situated in a present-day map. In the 1923 book commemorating the Silver Anniversary of the Founding of Palmerton, 1898-1923, the author states that Frederick Beyer's land was "from which the elder Mr. Boyer [Beyer] went to his death at the hands of the Indians." Somewhere on or near this property of Frederick's 1812 Patent is an area called Stony Hill where the author says the Indians took Frederick and his sisters and met another party of Indians and proceeded to Canada. This was 2 June 1757. Fort Lehigh is no longer believed to be in Palmerton has been put to rest by the latest version of Frontier Forts published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Fort Lehigh was a fort near Petersville in Northampton County.
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