Lathe-turned wooden tar bucket with fitted lid and remnants of leather straps. Cylindrical vessel has slight taper inward toward middle. Decorated with two double score marks below center. Above center are shoulders jutting outward with vertical holes through which straps of leather handle pass. Handle also passes through lid of conforming shape, although one strap broken off at shoulder while the other is broken off 3 inches above shoulder.Center hole in lid apparently accepted a now-missing stick used to apply tar to wheels. Broken-off 5-inch length of leather strap rests inside. Tar residue in bucket.
Lancaster County or region.
Provenance
Donor believes bucket descended from family members to his parents who displayed it on their mantle. Donor inherited it from parents.
Signers of Petition: James [Penny], James Pegan, Andrew Pegan, James Brown, Christian C. [Pence], James Ankrum, Joseph Bradley, John Robinson, Frederick Stauffer, William Penny, John Clark, William McCardel.
1 Item, 1 Piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Signers of Petition: Robert King, David Cope, Henry Rush, G. [Morrison], George Haverstick, Isaac Byers, Isaiah McCarty, Gardner Furness, [Joseph Reeser].
1 Item, 1 Piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Signers of Petition: Benjamin Davis, Samuel Brenneman, George Kendig, Christian Brenneman, John Hart, John Cresson, John Harmon, Matthew Jack, Peter Good, John Good, David Heiny Jr., Samuel Stauffer.
1 Item, 1 Piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Located about 1 1/2 miles from McCalls Ferry at the intersection of six public roads.
Petition granted.
January term.
Signers of Petition: Augustus Stoughton, James Brown, Peter Rice, William Boyd, Daniel [Mullin], William Wallace, Joseph Bradley, John Creamer, Robert Williams, John Frazier, Julius Hubert, Robert Evans. Edward Hutchinson, William Ankrim, Elijah McIntire, Leonard Eichholtz, George Cully, William Cully, James Ankrim, John Daner, Samuel Morrison, [James] Good, Joseph Showalter, Joseph Penny, Jesse Lamborn, Joseph Wentz, Thomas Neel, Andrew Pegan, George Lamborn, Jacob Seids, John Wallace, James Pegan Jr., Thomas Black, Abraham Rowinsky, David Stewart, John B. Clark.
1 Item, 1 Piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
