McKean County, Pennsylvania

Kane

Early Land Owners

The following list of owners of property in the Borough of Kane has been made up from a properly certified abstract of title on land now located in central portion of the town. All details, as references to deed book, pages, etc., have been omitted to secure greater brevity, the purpose of the list being to show nationality and, to a less extent, residence of owners through the years. It will be noted that not until after 1850 do nay names appear in the list that figure in the later history of town or county:

Allegawi and Erie Indians to 1700

Iroquois Indians 1700 to 1784

Spanish, French and English Claims 1492 to 1783

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1783 to 1792

Herman LeRoy and Jan Linklean 1792 to 1812

Paul Busti and wife 1812 - 1 month

Benj. B. Cooper and Oliver Wayne Ogden 1812-1814

Wilhelm Willink 1816-1829

Hendrick Vollenshover 1816-1829

Rutger Jan Shimmelpennick 1816-1829

Wilhelm Willink 1816-1829

Jan Van Eighn 1816-1829

Wilhelm Willink, Jr 1816-1829

Gerret Shimmelpennick 1816-1829

John J. Vanderkemp 1831

Mark Richards and wife 1831-1835

John Hemphill 1831-1835

Andrew M. Jones 1831-1835

Edgar H. Richards 1831-1835

Benjamin Jones 1835-1842

Andrew M. Jones and wife 1842-1853

William A. Irvine 1853

Samuel Leiper 1853-1855

Thomas Struthers 1853-1855

Henry Watts 1853-1855

John K. Kane 1855

Frederick Fraley 1855

John C. Cresson 1855

Jeremiah Hacker 1855

Mordecai L. Dawson 1855

Samuel Welch 1855

James R. Greeved 1855

J. Pemberton Hutchinson 1855

William Biddle 1855

Source: Kane and the upper Allegheny
Philadelphia, Pa.: J. C. Winston Co., 1929

contributed by Sandy Payne