Petitions from landowners to the Court of Common Pleas requesting an order to the sheriff to issue deeds for property purchased at the previous sheriff's land sales. Petitions show names of petitioner, former owner, and former sheriff; signature of petitioner; a brief description of the property; location; purchase price; and date. Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by purchaser's name. Most are handwritten on printed forms.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by purchaser's name.
Petitions from landowners to the Court of Common Pleas requesting an order to the sheriff to issue deeds for property purchased at the previous sheriff's land sales. Petitions show names of petitioner, former owner, and former sheriff; signature of petitioner; a brief description of the property; location; purchase price; and date. Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by purchaser's name. Most are handwritten on printed forms.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by purchaser's name.
Petitions from landowners to the Court of Common Pleas requesting an order to the sheriff to issue deeds for property purchased at the previous sheriff's land sales. Petitions show names of petitioner, former owner, and former sheriff; signature of petitioner; a brief description of the property; location; purchase price; and date. Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by purchaser's name. Most are handwritten on printed forms.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by purchaser's name.
Located on the Lancaster and Reading road, seven miles from Lancaster at the junction of same and road leading from Columbia to Reading to New Holland.
Petition granted.
January term.
Signers of Petition: Jacob Zercher, John Steinman, Philip Shreiner, John Young, Martin Eckman, David Good, John Carpenter, Isaac Carpenter, Christian Carpenter Jr., John McCleery, Martin Mayer, John Heller, John Johns, William Weidler, Peter Fieles, John Feather, Jacob Reist, Benjamin Johnson, Christian S. Brubaker, John Brubaker, A. Dietrich, George Mayer, George W. Henry, John Hatz, [signature in German], [signature in German], Ingham Wood, John Grubb, Jacob Weitzel, Frederick Hambright, George Rysinger, J. Zimmerman, William Hambright, William Miller, Jacob Hoffmeier, John Kauffman, David Hummel, John Ruth, A. Sheaffer, Reuben Weidler, Christian Kauffman, Jesse Sellers, Curtis Sellers, [signature in German], [signature in German], Isaac Brown, Daniel Shissler, Jacob [Gaull], Andrew Hetzel, [signature in German], Abraham Myers, Henry Garber, Isaac Ressler, [unknown signature], Jacob Shisler, Jonas Nolt, John Kuhn, [signature in German], [signature in German], Daniel Royer, Henry Landis, Andrew Menold, Michael Stauffer, John B. Sneder, John S. Black Jr., John Hamilton, Adam Pickel, Jacob Grub, David Grub, [signature in German], Caspar Grub, Isaac Leib, [signature in German], Henry Master, Conrad Master, Henry Zercher, John Leib, Jacob Leib, William Roland, [signature in German], Henry Rudy, Samuel Sellers, Christian Rudy, Daniel Rudy, Jacob Landis, Peter Forney, Abraham Colden, Samuel Hallacher, Frederick Kline, Absalom Sellers, Michael Fisher, John Ruth, James Todd, John Lutz, George Diller, William Smith, Benjamin Stehman, Samuel Reemsnyder, Samuel Snyder, Jacob Sherer, Adam Diller, [signature in German], Jacob Steman, [signature in German].
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Located on road leading from Lancaster to Manheim.
Formerly occupied by Mr. Franck.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: David Mayer, Jacob Myer Jr., John Kauffman, Christian Brubaker, [signature in German], [signature in German], W. B. Ross, Joseph Hartman, Adam Guiesinger, George Guiesinger, Isaac Ringwalt, John Graff, Matthias Brooke, John Witmer, David Rohrer, Emanuel Gibble, David Stamm, Abraham Landis, Jacob Rathfon, Philip Mosher, George Biegler, Christian Stoner.
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Signers of Petition: James Porter, N. W. Sample Jr., Joel Lightner Jr., Michael Musselman, Henry Witmer, Daniel Lefever, Jacob Witmer, Paul Trout, [signature in German], Hugh McClung.
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Signers of Petition: Benjamin Eshleman, John Seitz, Samuel Millar, George Hoffman, Caleb Evans, Daniel Howry, George Miller, Samuel Shroy, William Smith, Jacob Hoover, James F. Whitehill, Robert Leaman, Moses Hemor, George Fondersmith, Archibald McCallister.
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Located on south west corner of centre square in Strasburg.
Petition granted.
January term.
Signers of Petition: George Hoffman, Samuel Herr, Hugh McClung, Francis Burrowes, Joel Lightner, Joseph Lefever, Benjamin B. Eshleman, Samuel Bower, James Adams, Andrew Charles, John Gyger, Robert Wallace, Nathaniel Sample Jr., Jacob Eshleman, W. Forman, Benjamin Vernon.
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