Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

Having worked with the land warrants and patents for more than thirty years as a reference archivist at the Pennsylvania State Archives and having made extensive use of the Bedford County tax records in my personal genealogical research over the same period, I was interested to read the article entitled “Open House in Bedford County to Show Connected Warrant Survey Maps” in this past week’s issue of the Morrisons Cove Herald. Unfortunately, the article is marred with inaccuracies and errors. I would like to correct a few of them.

First, there were not “several ways that land was...