Samuel Boyer’s Conestoga Tract

Kris Hocker on 10 Nov 2013

Samuel Boyer Conestoga tract

Samuel Boyer’s Conestoga Township Tract

This 115 acre tract in Conestoga Township on Pequea Creek was warranted to Martin Kendig and John Herr as part of a larger 5,000 acre warrant.1 On the 20th day of the 8th month [October] 1729, John Taylor surveyed the tract, adjoining John Goughnower, Christian Stone, and Jacob Hoober, for Samuel Boyer in right of Martin Kendig and John Herr.2 On 27 November 1739, Samuel Boyer patented 115 acres on Pequea Creek. (See Patent Book A9:127)3

Nearly 50 years later, Jacob Boyer and John Barr, executors of Samuel Boyer’s estate, sold 16 acres to Henry Gochenour on 2 March 1786.4 On the same day, they also sold 82 acres from Samuel Boyer’s two tracts in Conestoga and Martic townships to Henry Resh.5 They also sold 97 acres from these tracts to Christopher Ord.6

Samuel Boyers tracts 1786

Samuel Boyer’s tracts as divided in 1786

  • Tract A: Henry Gochenour’s piece of Samuel Boyer’s Conestoga tract
  • Tract B: Henry Resh’s piece of Samuel Boyer’s Conestoga tract and his Martic tract
  • Tract C: Christopher Ord’s piece of Samuel Boyer’s Conestoga tract and his Martic tract

Land below the purple line was part of Samuel Boyer’s Martic township lands.

Footnotes

  1. Martin Kendig survey (1720), Pennsylvania Copied Survey Book D88:140, Pennsylvania State Archives, Records of the Land Office, Records Group 17, Copied Surveys, Series #17.114, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. ↩
  2. Samuel Boyer survey (1729), Pennsylvania Copied Survey Book D88:139; Records of the Land Office, Records Group 17, Copied Surveys, Series #17.114; PDF online, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, “Pennsylvania State Archives” (http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/state_archives/2887 : accessed 13 Oct 2013). ↩
  3. Pequea Township Warrantee Map (Lancaster County), Warrantee Township Maps; Records of the Land Office, Records Group 17, Series #17.522; PDF online, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, “Pennsylvania State Archives” (http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/state_archives/2887 : accessed 13 Oct 2013). ↩
  4. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book EE:59, Samuel Boyer’s Exors to Henry Gochenouer, 2 March 1786; online, Recorder of Deeds, https://www.lancasterdeeds.com. ↩
  5. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book EE:61, Samuel Boyer’s Exors to Henry Resh, 2 March 1786; online, Recorder of Deeds, https://www.lancasterdeeds.com. ↩
  6. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book EE:63, Samuel Boyer’s Exors to Christopher Ord, 2 March 1786; online, Recorder of Deeds, https://www.lancasterdeeds.com. ↩

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