Many records were consulted in the study of Thomas Holme’s map. This is a reference guide for locating them. In some cases there is more detailed information on an earlier blog page. Please note that this is a guide for locating records, not a source for the records themselves, which are generally voluminous.
Quaker Records
Monthly meeting minutes: Reference on blog of 2/9/16 [all blog dates in 2016]
Vital records: Reference on blog on 2/14, 2/15, 2/29, 3/1
Certificates of removal: Reference on blog on 5/4
Acknowledgments: Mostly included in monthly meeting minutes.
Court Records
Bucks County Quarter Sessions: Ancestry; Spruance Library; HSP (Historical Society of PA, Phila.)
Chester County Record of the Courts: Ancestry and HSP
Burlington Court Book: Ancestry, HSP
Upland Court: Ancestry
Land Records
Old Rights Index 1759: Pennsylvania Archive, series 3, vol 2 & 3 (correct dates)
Copied Survey Books and Old Rights Index 1833: State website at phmc.pa.gov (under Land Records). Note that the Old Rights Index there has incorrect dates; Quakers used numbers for months instead of the pagan names; by 1833 someone had forgotten that before 1752 the year started in March, not January, so “First Month” meant March.
First Purchasers: Papers of William Penn, vol 2
Minutes of the Board of Property: Google Books, full view; Ancestry
Original Purchase Register: PHMC website
Deeds, Phila County, index: Philadox.phila.gov/phillyhistoricalindex/index.html
Deeds, Phila County, deeds & a guide: Phila-records.com/historic-records/web (paid site)
Deeds, Bucks County: FamilySearch.org (to about 1860)
Deeds, Chester County: FamilySearch.org (to about 1860)
Immigration Records
Civil arrivals: Lists in Sheppard, Passengers and ships prior to 1684
Certificates of removal: Myers, Quaker Arrivals…; see the blog on 5/4/16
Immigrants who declared goods: Balderston’s articles in Passengers and ships…
Tax lists
Blackwell rent roll: Papers of William Penn, vol 3
1693 tax list: See the blog on 3/25/16
Probate Records
Bucks County wills (and other estate papers): FamilySearch.org; Bucks Co. courthouse
Chester County wills: FamilySearch.org; Chester Co. Archive
Philadelphia County wills: FamilySearch.org; Phila City Hall
Other Useful Lists
Philadelphia Business Directory of 1690: Roach, Colonial Philadelphians
Biographies of officers: Horle et al, Lawmaking and Legislators, vol. 1
Lists of people who signed petitions: Lawmaking and Legislators, vol. 1
Early letters and narratives: Papers of Wm Penn; Myers, Narratives of early PA…Minutes of the Provincial Council: Google Books; Ancestry