It's Treasure Chest Thursday - an opportunity to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history research and genealogy musings.
The treasure today is the 1787 land warrant application of Philip Jacob King in Manchester, York County, Pennsylvania:
The transcription of the information on this record is (handwritten text in italics):
THE Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ss.
WHEREAS Philip Jacob King of the County of
York hath requested to take up Fifty Acres of Land,
including an Improvement adjoining George Wolf, Casper Knaub, Gust
Herbaugh and other land of said King in Manchester Township
in the County of York (PROVIDED the Land is not within the last Purchase
made of the Indians) for which he agrees 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 com-
mence from the first day of March, 1765. THESE are, therefore, to authorize and require
you to survey, or cause to be surveyed, unto the said Philip Jacob King, at the
place aforesaid, according to the method of Townships appointed, the said quantity of Acres, if not already sur-
veyed, 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 Benjamin Franklin, Esq'r, President of the
Supreme Executive Council, hath hereunto set his Hand, and caused the less Seal of the said Commonwealth to
be affixed, the tenth day of April in the year 1787.
To John Lukens, Esquire,
Surveyor General.
[Signed] B. Franklin
The source citation for this land warrant application is:
This is an Original Source record (because it is a form with handwritten information and a signature with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the land warrant with the name of the grantee, the date of request, location of the land, acreage, cost and date of order to survey the land of Philip Jacob King in Manchester, York County, Pennsylvania. Apparently, this made him the legal owner of the 50 acres of land that he settled on in 1765.
Philip Jacob Konig (1738-1792) was born 15 February 1738 in Niederhorbach, Rheinland-Pfalz, the son of Johann Nicolaus Konig and Maria Margaretha Stuber. He died before 25 February 1792 in Manchester, York, Pennsylvania when his estate was probated. He married (1) Maria Barbara Wilhelm (1740-1779) on 1 April 1763 in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Colony, and they had seven children. He married Maria Catherina Ziegler (1749-1826) in about 1779, and they had three children.
Philip Jacob Konig and Maria Barbara Wilhelm are my 5th great-grandparents, through their son Philip Jacob Konig (1764-1829) who married Catherine Ruth (1770-1813) in 1789.
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