Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 5, no. 3/4
Summary
This journal article addresses sureveyor Andrew Ellicott's role in the laying out of the District of Columbia as well as many other later other projects he led.
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16, no. 7
Notes
Arthur Armstrongs family included Revolutionary War Brigadier General John Armstrong, Sr. (1717-1795), Revolutionary War physician, Dr. James Armstrong (1748-1828), and John Armstrong, Jr. (1758-1843), President James Madisons Secretary of War (1813-1814). Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, is named for the John Armstrong, Sr. Into this prestigious family, Arthur Armstrong was born in 1798 in Pennsylvania. His leanings were artistic and in 1820, when he was 22, he opened a studio in Marietta, Pennsylvania. On September 25, 1827. He married Harriet Groff Wentz (1808-1896). He taught younger artists, including John Henry Brown (1818-1891) and worked in the Ohio River Valley in 1839 and 1840. By the time of the death of the regions more established older artist, Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842) Armstrong resided in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1849 his studio was in the Mechanics Institute in Lancaster. In times of economic downturn, Armstrong painted signs and constructed and gilded picture frames. But when the economy was good, he painted portraits, landscapes and historical scenes. On the second floor of his Lancaster studio he exhibited Hamlet and Ophelia and a large picture of the Assassination of Caesar. This 1845 portrait of George Gordon, Lord Byron, from a print of a British portrait by Richard Westall, would have been among the artworks on display. Armstrong died at the age of 53 on June 15, 1851. He was remembered as a genial, kindly-hearted man. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.The Lancaster Historical Society owns the preponderance of his works. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, owns a particularly lovely double portrait Two Sisters with Puppy and Flowers, 1842.
"The tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1750, 1754, 1756-1759, 1763, 1769-1773, 1775-1783, 1785-1794, 1797, 1799-1803, 1805-1811, 1813-1822, 1824, 1834."
"This microfilm is an addendum to the Lancaster County Tax Records project of 1971 and 1977. The records on this film were donated to the Lancaster County Historical Society in January 1981. They had been kept in the basement of Conestoga View Hospital which was used by the Lancaster County government as a storage facility for records. The tax records were water damaged and subsequently discarded at an unknown point in time. A private citizen discoverd and salvaged the items from a trash heap, and donated them to the Historical Society. The items show extensive damaged [sic] by water, mold, and vermin. Most pages are frayed and sections unreadable."
Bart Twp. 1833-37, 1841, 1843-45.
Brecknock Twp. 1833
Caernarvon Twp. 1844
Cocalico Twp. 1823, 1829
Conestoga Twp. 1827, 1831
Manheim Twp. 1822-23 (Includes List of Poor Children)
"The date [sic] tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1750-1751, 1754, 1756-1759, 1763, 1769-1770, 1772-1773, 1775-1783, 1785-1793, 1799-1803, 1805-1823, 1825-1832, 1834, 1836, 1838-1839, 1841-1846. These records are followed on the microfilm by a group of undated tax records for this township."
"The tax records for this township [Caernarvon] which are here reporduced cover the following years: 1754, 1756-1759, 1769-1770, 1772-1773, 1775, 1777-1783, 1785-1793, 1797-1798, 1800-1803, 1805-1816, 1818-1822, 1824-1828, 1830-1832, 1834, 1836, 1839-1841, 1845."
There is one entry for "Elizabeth Township" in the 1780 PDF file. The entry for Elizabeth Township can be found starting on the 22nd page of the 1780 PDF file.
"The dated tax records here reproduced for this township, prior to its division in 1838 into East Cocalico, West Cocalico, and Ephrata townships, cover the following years: 1751, 1756-1759, 1763, 1769-1773, 1775, 1777-1783, 1785-1789, 1791-1793, 1796-1803, 1805-[1808]"
Cocalico taxes for 1809-1838 continue on the next microfilm reel, #5.
Microfilm. Cocalico, 838 frames; East Cocalico, 107 frames; West Cocalico, 133 frames. Labeled as "Pos. 5".
Series
Lancaster County Pa. Tax Records, 1748-1855.
Notes
"The dated tax records here reproduced for this township, prior to its division in 1838 into East Cocalico, West Cocalico, and Ephrata townships, cover the following years: 1808-1814, 1816-1822, 1824-1827, 1830, 1832-1836, 1838. These records are followed on the microfilm by a group of undated tax records for this township.
The records for East and West Cocalico follow the records for Cocalico.
