Pennsylvania’s Revolutionary Governments, Supreme Executive Council, Forfeited Estates File, Surnames A-O., This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education., Arranged alphabetically by name of estate holder, or sometimes by county. A record of estates forfeited by citizens of various counties of Pennsylvania because of their allegiance to the British crown during the Revolutionary War. Records specify the date of receipt, letter, order or notice, the area of land in question, and the county in which it was contained. Records also usually show the name and residence of the attainted individual and occasionally his occupation. Also mentioned is the detailed descriptions or drawings of boundaries of the property, an inventory of the property seized (with the date), and a record of the estate’s disbursement. In cases of land sales, there is a record of who bought and sold the land, agents involved and appointment of land appraisers to deal with estates forfeited by men under verdict of the Council. Also included are petitions by citizens who were unjustly accused of treason and like offenses or in danger of losing their land to the state, and letters and drawings from agents of confiscated estates reporting forfeited lands that were resurveyed. For more details, please see the published Guide to the microfilm of Pennsylvania’s revolutionary governments, 1775-1790 (record group 27) in the Pennsylvania State Archives: https://archive.org/details/guidetoofrecords00penn/page/n3/mode/2up
