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.
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: Andrew Myers, James Barlow, James Mooney, George Myers, George W. Porter, Samuel Ehrman, Andrew Hershy, Valentine Greiner, Levi Ricksecker, John B. Shelly, Samuel J. Shay, Joseph Haugentobler, Joshua Leader, Simon Meredith, John Patterson.
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Signers of petition: George W. Porter, Joseph Porter, Jacob R. Heilig, Samuel Ehrman, John Patterson, James Moore, Samuel S. Grosh, Jacob R. Long, John B. Shelly, Jacob Uhrich, Thomas McFarland, Simon Meredith, Levi Ricksecker, Samuel J. Shay, Andrew Hershey.
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Sign of the Cross Keys, known as the Cross Road Tavern.
April term.
Signers of petition: Jacob Earhart, Alexander Patterson, Michael Gormley, H. L. Stehman, W. McNeel, J. G. Fisher, John Boyce, Stephen Grisinger, John Bosler, Henry S. Shirk, D. C. Maurer, Philip Royer, Christian Leib, Benjamin Stehman.
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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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Signers of a petition for an eating house: John Sherk, H. S. Shirk, A. M. Heistand, David Leib, David Stoner, Elias W. Hamaker, J. M. Culp, John Myers, C. Baker, L. P. Beckly, Jacob Hamaker, Jacob Earhart, A. Greiner, John Hogendobler, Jacob H. Greiner, P. E. Lindemuth, Jacob Mussleman, Benjamin Flory, Henry Sherbahn, Samuel M. [Close].
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