E.C. Slater of Platea, Pennsylvania, kept this surveyor's book of property in Lockport (also called Platea), Erie County, Pennsylvania, 18 April 1876-18 April 1879. He surveyed N.B. Harris's farm (formerly John Murphey's), the land sold to C. Ball by George Shafer, the line between the land of Mrs. Morse and A.C. Keith, Mrs. Morse's land, land sold by A. Badger to M.B. Babbitt, land for Mrs. Stitt, road in Girard Township, land for C.C. Marsh, road in Elk Creek Township, Hance Ferguson farm in Springfield Township, Hiram Dickenson farm in Springfield Township, land for Riley Pettibone, land sold to A.J. Eaton and C. Coffman by D. Smith, part of Stitt Farm sold to Jas. Cole, Bogart Road in Lockport Borough, land in Franklin Township sold by S. Sisson to G.H. Bogett and Mrs. Martha M. Francis, land sold to John Ball by Geo. Shafer, land for Mary D. Houghton, land for P.E. Hay and M. Messenger, John Pease Farm in Lockport Borough, mill lot on Stitt Farm, Thos. Miller's land in Girard Township bought of C.F. Webster, Meadville Road in Lockport Borough, road from Benj. Luce's to C. Coffman's, survey of road in Elk Creek Township from Meadville Road near Seth Allen's, land sold to W.P. Lloyd by C.C. French, land sold to Wm. Cross by P.L. Aldrich, land in Girard Township for Mrs. Mary Rouse, lines for Lyman Badger, land for Arthur M. Pettis, land sold by D.D. Lyon to P.C. Fillinger, land for John Devore, land for E.T. Bogart, land sold to Chas. Kent by John Pease's heirs, land for Jas. Watson, Cooper lot at Girard Depot, land of heirs of Scott Keith dec'd., and land of heirs of Jas. M. Miller dec'd. At the back of the book are two pencil perspective drawings of houses and calculations of the magnetic bearing of the M.E. Church, Girard, from A.C. Miller's house.
