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From: "John and Pat Beer" <>
Subject: SEATED BY
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:24:58 -0600


What is the meaning of seated by

Source: Page(s) 286 - 309, History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania by Robert Walker Smith, Esq.

Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883

The purchase line of 1768, or the old purchase line, as it is often called, traverses the township from the chestnut tree mentioned in the boundaries at the angle south of the north branch of Plum Creek in the line between this and Indiana county, north 79 degrees west, passing through the brick house of Jno. Boyer about twenty-five rods east of Huskins' run, and crossing the western boundary of the township a little above the angletherin. All that portion south of that line was taken from Plum Creek township, and was included in the old purchase of 1768, and it constitutes about one-third of the territory of Cowanshannock township. The original tracts in this portion were in the names of warrantees as follows: A part of the Alexander Dallas tract; the John D. Mercer tract, 402 acres, seated by David McCausland;





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