This collection consists of business records for Whitson & Sproul of Christiana, Lancaster County and documents related to estate settlements. The business records include a ledger, letters and statements concerning the sale and purchase of various materials. One letter mentions the 1860 election of "Old Abe." The receipts and court documents consist primarily of receipts, releases, and sale agreements relating to the settlement of the estates of James Sproul and Moses Whitson.
Documents filed with the Court of Common Pleas by municipalities in Lancaster County placing liens on real estate. The overwhelming majority were filed by the City of Lancaster. The next greatest number were filed by the Borough of Columbia. Other liens were filed by the boroughs of Adamstown, Ephrata, New Holland, Quarryville, Strasburg, and Washington. The liens show docket book and page numbers, the name of property owner, and then describe the location and size of the property along with buildings and improvements, the amount of money in question, and the cause for the assessment. These documents were recorded in Municipal Lien Docket Books 2 through 5, and are arranged in the order they appear therein. This leads to an oddity in filing order, in that the last 45 liens in Book 4 fall out of chronological sequence, overlapping and extending slightly beyond the dates of the liens in Book 5. Handwritten, plus a very few typewritten.
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Information for each lien has been recorded in an Excel Spreadsheet which is available in the Research Center and the attached PDF.
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Signers of Petition: Daniel Rosch, Robert Downey, Alexander Schultz, George H. Miller, Abraham B. Witmer, Christian Menard, David Herr, B. B. Gonder, Andrew Charles, Jacob Potts, Daniel Creider, Jacob Keneagy, William Echternoch, [Christian] Spencer, William Black.
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Signers of Petition: John D. Killiann, Martin Herr, Jacob Holl, Simon Brubaker, Jacob Potts, Rudolph Shaub, Robert Downey, Amos E. Cochran, Jacob Keneagy, [David] Rosch, John Rehm, Alexander Shultz.
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Signers of Petition: Daniel Miller, Daniel Rosch, J. J. Buckwalter, Jacob Weaver, Abraham B. Witmer, Jacob Rehm, B. B. Gonder, Jacob Rehm, Daniel Crider, Henry Spiehlman, Michael Book, Samuel Spielman, Conrad Litzmann.
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Signers of Petition: John P. Kilburn, A. C. Hall, David Herr, John Lieb, John Rehm, Thomas Eagar, Jacob Potts, William Echternoch, E. Gates, R. Downey, Amos E. Cochran, H. E. Hoover, [signature in German].
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Signers of petition: John Rehm, Simon Brubaker, Samuel Taggart, Abraham Metzler, John H. Kilburn, William B. Eager, John Rehm, Jacob Potts, Thomas Eagar, William Cummins, John [Lieb], William S. Warner, W. F. S. Warren, Jesse Gyger.
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