1766 JOHN LUKENS SURVEY ORDER Cumberland Co PA Richard Tea for Philip Gilliland
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September 8,1766 COLONIAL DOCUMENTPENNSYLVANIA ORDER TO SURVEY - No. 1134for Philip Gilliland (also spelled Gilleland)Cumberland County(Land later in Bedford Co. and now Fulton Co. - see below)John Lukens - Surveyor GeneralRichard Tea - Deputy SurveyorPhiladelphia Printed form with inked entries on paper with wire lines - measures 8 x 4", once folded and creased several times horizontally and vertically. The back has notes to identify the document when it was folded (and "Gilleland" is the spelling on the back).Signed by John Lukens, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania John Lukens (1720-1789) was Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania and Delaware from 1761 to 1776, and of Pennsylvania from 1781 to1789. He was part of the team that surveyed the northern boundary of Delaware in 1762. (These measurements we used later by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to lay out the final Mason-Dixon line.) Lukens was affiliated with the Philadelphia American Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge and the American Philosophical Society, and was an acquaintance of Benjamin Franklin and others in the learned circles of the day. Richard Tea, was a surveyor of Hereford township before the Revolution, and an iron-master during the Revolution. In 1776 he was elected to the 12-member Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, but he declined
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