Pennsylvania Statutes Title 21 P.S. Deeds and Mortgages § 42. Deeds to be acknowledged before recording

All bargains and sales, deeds and conveyances of lands, tenements and HEREDITAMENTS, in this province, may be recorded in the said office;  1 but before the same shall be so recorded, the parties concerned shall procure the grantor or bargainer named in every such deed, or else two or more of the witnesses (who were present at the execution thereof), to come before one of the justices of the peace of the proper county or city where the lands lie, who is hereby empowered to take such acknowledgment of the grantor, if one, or of one of the grantors, if more.