West Jersey’s proprietors similarly relied on surveyors. Colonial surveyors established tract, manor, township, and county boundaries, laid out city streets and lots, determined borders between Pennsylvania and neighboring provinces, located the likeliest routes for roads connecting the hinterland, and established inland navigation routes and mill sites. In Pennsylvania, William Penn (1644–1718) relied upon surveyors to measure and map his new lands.
Land was the most valuable commodity in the Delaware Valley during the colonial period, and it had to be surveyed before it could be granted or transferred. Philadelphia, the Place that Loves You BackĮssay Produced by Pennsylvania’s first surveyor-general, Thomas Holme, A Map of ye Improved Part of Pensilvania in America is one of the first two maps created of Pennsylvania.
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