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Benjamin Lightfoot Survey Notebook
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0203
Abstract
This manuscript notebook includes survey data of a road to be built between Pottsville to Shamokin (then an Indian Territory) in 18th century. It also contains detailed information on surveyor’s measurements and coordinates; descriptions of the terrain, and insight into frontier Pennsylvania and the interaction between the English settlers, militias and the native people on the Schuylkill and Susquehanna rivers of colonial Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1759-1860; 1759, 1770, 1850, 1860
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Philadelphia Surveyor John H. Levering Ledger
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0173
Abstract
This folio itemizes an interesting view into
the northwestward expansion of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in an era of growth in the
mid-19th century. What is shown by the surveying entries is the incorporation, by the 1854 Act
of Consolidation, of Roxborough Township and the Borough of Manayunk into the City of Philadelphia’s
21st Ward. A list of landowners requiring surveying services reflects on Lehigh University’s collection
of 18th and 19th century industrial collections with...
Dates:
1873 - 1888
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections