"Eighty five (85) tracts of land, which when surveyed, were situate in the City of Lancaster and part of the Conestoga Manor in Lancaster County. The warrants, surveys and patents bearing, respectively, the dates as above set forth, are constructed from and have been compared with the original drafts on file in the Division of Land Records, Bureau of Archives and History, Historical and Museum Commission, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, under the direction of Edward D. Price, Chief."
Warrants to survey 700 acres of land on the north bank of the Conestoga River were filed on February 18, 1717 or 1718 by Jacob Hostetter and Jacob Kreider. The land was surveyed May 28, 1717 or 1718. The patents were awarded in June of 1734.
Plots numbered 57, 58, 59, 61, and 62 on the map represent the 700 acres of land surveyed for Jacob Hostetter and Jacob Kreider. Plot 57 (200 acres) was surveyed for Jacob Kreider in 1717. Jacob Kreider's brother Michael received the patent for the land 17 years later, in 1734. Jacob Kreider, on plot 62 kept 150 acres for himself.
Jacob Hostetter kept 150 acres for himself. The rest of his land was patented to John Shank (150 acres) and Peter Martin (50 acres) in 1734.
Relative to the other plots on this map, the Kreider and Hostetter land was some of the first to be surveyed.
I. Daniel Rupp mentions Jacob Kreider and Jacob Hostetter in his History of Lancaster County.