Petitions filed for admission to citizenship. Documents may contain: petition number, date, name, nationality, declaration of intention, oath of allegiance, affidavits of witnesses, date admitted in court, and official signatures. Twentieth century petitions may include notes of testimony.
Lancaster County Archives, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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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. Most are handwritten on printed forms.
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Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by purchaser's name.
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Petitions to Make Sheriff's Deeds may be searched in the online collection database. https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/
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Located on Old Philadelphia Pike about 13 miles from Lancaster.
Petition granted.
January term.
Signers of Petition: David Brisben, John Rutter, Christian Hess, James Buyers, Hathorn Freeland, Andrew Caldwell, William P. Caldwell, Nathaniel Ellmaker, E. E. Ellmaker, Samuel Ringwalt, George Ellmaker, Christian Sharp. Christian Hurst, George B. Markly, Adam Bare.
1 Item, 1 Piece
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Located on Black Horse Road leading to Lancaster from Port Deposit.
Petition granted.
Second document with one testimony and signature of William C. Hull.
January term.
Signers of Petition: W. McCullough, Jeremiah B. Haines, Edward Wallis, Lewis Haines, Jacob Perdue, John McVey, Joel Jackson, John Stubbs, Samuel Reynolds, James Porter, Elijah Jenkins, George Morry, John Brandt, William C. Hull, John [Hanna], John Webster, Joseph Webster, James Barns, Philip Housekeeper, Mahlon Pusey, Samuel Gundaker, Isaac J. Hutton, Robert Maxwell, William Brown, Jeremiah Brown Jr., George Loius Mayer, Samuel Morisson, George Mayer.
2 Items, 2 Pieces
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Signers of Petition: David Brown, Hughes Burk, Joseph Price, Isaac Allen, Amos Ailes, David Brown Jr., Nathaniel Hawkins, William W. Steele, N. W. Boyd, Robert King Jr.
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Signers of Petition: John Webster, W. McCullough, Ezra Quinby, William Best, Jeremiah B. Haines, Isaac Hutton, Isaac Richardson, John McVey, John Hanna.
1 Item, 1 Piece
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Located on the Great Road leading from Lancaster to Port Deposit, and other public roads leading from the same to Wilmington, Elkton, McFalls Ferry, about 4 miles from Peach Bottom.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: James Duncan, Phineas Ash, Jonathan P. Webb, J. Jefferies, David Miller, Joseph Mosher, J. Ramsay, Joseph Richardson, John Wade, James [McKirchan], Samuel Maxwell, George Miller, John Getz, William Hull, Leonard Eichholtz, Michael Strein, George Louis Mayer, William Hambright, George Hambright, Job Reynolds, William Cooper, Nathaniel Lightner, G. Withers, George Peckel, Samuel C. Slaymaker.
1 Item, 3 Pieces
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Signers of Petition: Thomas Furniss, Ellis Peirce, Robert King Jr., Isaac Hutton, William Cook, Aaron Quinby, Robert Maxwell, Jeremiah B. Haines, W. McCullough, Samuel Neeper, James Neeper, Frederick Stauffer, John King, Oliver Turniss, John McVey, [Gabez] Hutton, Henry McVey, James Porter, Amer Stubbs, William Brown, Reuben McVey, Lewis Walker, William McDowell, Jeremiah Griest, Samuel Brown, Josiah Brown, Conrad Baldwin, Lauson Cooley, Alexander Ewing, John K. Lappington.
1 Item, 1 Piece
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