Links to Old Maps & Surveys, Yardley, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Starting back in 1965, Catharine Belville and Marie-Therese Hale worked trying to prove that the left side of the Belville Home was the tavern which was said to have existed in Yardley on the banks of the Delaware River. In the early 1990s ---walking for exercise--- I started searching for any possible traces of the old ferry roads and ferry sites. This encouraged Marie-Therese to resume her document search. During a long series of field trips, she has found an amazing number of documents, each one more exciting than the last. These were mostly original 19th century documents consisting of deeds, wills, road returns, orphans court records, newspaper advertisements, and survey maps.
Of particular interest are a number of very small scale survey drawings, drawn either by the surveyor or a direct copy made at the time by the designated official who recorded the document. We scanned these and ran them through a graphics editing program (Fireworks by Macromedia). The drawings were greatly enlarged. Editing was limited to cleaning up the white areas, darkening lines, sharpening lines, and cropping where necessary to keep file size small and download time short. No lines or printing were altered in any way.