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Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

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Date of Publication: 1734 - 1935.

Call Number: Drawer 15, Sec. 1

Responsibility: Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;

Date of Publication: 1734 - 1935.

Physical Description: 4 reels ; 35 mm.

Notes: Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.; Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.; Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.

Subjects: Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs. Bureau of Land Records.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.; Land grants - Pennsylvania.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - York County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Adams County.

Additional Author: Britton, William W.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 15, Sec. 1

The Indian wars of Pennsylvania : an account of the Indian events, in Pennsylvania, of the French and Indian war, Pontiac's war, Lord Dunmore's war, the revolutionary war, and the Indian uprising from 1789 to 1795 ; tragedies of the Pennsylvania frontier based primarily on the Penna. archives and colonial records / by C. Hale Sipe ; introduction by Dr. George P. Donehoo

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Author: Sipe, C. Hale

Date of Publication: 1929.

Call Number: 974.8011 S618w

Author: Sipe, C. Hale

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: The Telegraph Press,

Date of Publication: 1929.

Physical Description: 793 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., fold. map (in pocket) ; 23 cm.

Notes: Tail-pieces.; "Principal sources utilized in the preparation of this work": p. [6]; "Officers of the colonies of the Delaware before the time of William Penn, and the governors of the province and the commonwealth from 1681 to 1799": p. [745]-746.; "Principal Indian towns in Pennsylvania": p. [747]-754.; "List of blockhouses not mentioned in the text of this history": p. [755]-761.; Includes information on the Conoy Indians, Conestoga Indians, Susquehanna Indians and Delaware Indians.

Subjects: Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.; Indians of North America; Fortification - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; Pennsylvania - Historic houses, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8011 S618w

Archive

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Object ID: MG0294

Date Range: 1865-1961

Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Search Terms: A. Geist and Son Adams County, Pennsylvania Albert Pick Company Births Bismarck, North Dakota Blue Ball Bank Blue Ball, East Earl Twp. Calling cards Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Coatesville, Chester

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Description: The Geist Family Papers include correspondence, tax records, legal documents, and other items related to the Geist family. Some correspondence is personal, while other letters relate to legal proceedings concerning estates and inheritances. A number of wills and associated materials, generally related to adjudications involving family members. Numerous local tax notices and federal income tax returns largely pertain to Daniel W. and Bertha W. Geist. Other materials include notebooks and receipts from Daniel W. Geist's time at Millersville State Normal School, visiting cards, and newspaper clippings.

Date Range: 1865-1961

Year Range From: 1865

Year Range To: 1961

Date of Accumulation: 1865-1961

Creator: Geist family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Alexander, James K.; Anderson, Howard; Bachman, Julie C.; Bard, Bertha; Brown, George; Bulleit, Edward Banister; Dague, Isaac W.; Dague, Lily C. Geist; Diller, Luther R.; Eshleman, John H.; Fox, Christian, Jr.; Geist, Adam; Geist, Agnes; Geist, Bertha Wanner; Geist, Daniel W.; Geist, Ettie G.; Geist, Everett S.; Geist, Harry Kohler; Geist, Lilly Kate; Groff, John M.; Heisher, Daniel; Hobson, Jesse; Hobson, Maria; Horst, Jacob G.; Kjorlien, Alvin C.; Leaman, William; Lyte, Eliphalet Oram; Martin, Luke W.; Milledge, Stanley; Miller, Helen Mildred Diller; Miller, Leon H. B.; Miller, Ruth; Ott, Janet F.; Overly, Herman Witmer; Overly, Richard Geist; Pond, B. C.; Pool, Virginia L.; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Rush, Charles William; Rush, Harriet Geist; Shaub, Sadie; Shirk, H. S.; Shirk, Henry; Shirk, Lawrence; Stoner, H. K.; Weaver, C. R.; Weaver, George A.; Werner, John Thomas; Witmer, Clara; Wolf, Lemon A.; Wolfe, Helen

Subjects: Decedents' estates; Estates (Law); Letters; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Taxation

Search Terms: A. Geist and Son; Adams County, Pennsylvania; Albert Pick Company; Births; Bismarck, North Dakota; Blue Ball Bank; Blue Ball, East Earl Twp.; Calling cards; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Correspondence; Death; Decedents' estates; Earl Twp.; East Earl Twp.; Ephrata; Estate settlement; Farmers National Bank; Finding aids; Florida; Franklin Twp., Adams County, Pennsylvania; Funerals; Gap, Salisbury Twp.; Grand Forks Herald; Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota; Health; Hotel Gladstone; Hunters; Inheritance; Internal Revenue Service; Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota; Johnson City, Broome County, New York; K. Aslesen Company; Lancaster; Lancaster New Era; Leland-Parker Hotel; Letters; Manuscript groups; Masons; McClure House; Miami, Florida; Millersville; Millersville State Normal School; Millersville University; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Minot, Ward County, North Dakota; Mountville Farm Women's Society; New Berlin, Ephrata Twp.; New Holland; Newspaper clippings; Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey; Parades; Patterson Hotel; Pennsylvania State Normal School; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Postage stamps; Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; Receipts; Republican Party; San Francisco, California; Schools; Stamps; Stevens, East Cocalico Twp.; Stocks; Tax returns; Taxation; Trusts and trustees; United Commercial Travelers of America; Vienna Bakery Company; Visiting cards; Washington, DC; West Cocalico School District; Wheeling, West Virginia; Wills; YMCA; Young Men's Christian Association

Extent: 1 box, 12 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0294

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

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Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this collection must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Accession Number: 2002.Hawbaker

Other Numbers: MG-294

Classification: MG0294

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 19 January 2022.

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Burial book of the Moravian Church, Lancaster, 1744-1821

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Corporate Author: Moravian Church, Lancaster (City), Pa.

Date of Publication: 1928.

Call Number: 284.6 L244

Corporate Author: Moravian Church, Lancaster (City), Pa.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Wickersham Press ;

Date of Publication: 1928.

Physical Description: 31, [3], 28 p. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Corrections made by Mrs. Bertha Cochran Landis, 1929 (3 leaves); "Summary of Graff-Graeff family as it appears in this record by Mrs. Bertha Cochran Landis." Summaries of the De Hoff, William Henry , Dressler-Drissler-Trissler, and Reigart families are also included.; Reprinted from Pa. Genealogical Society Publications,v. 10 & v. 11, (1929-1932); Also on microfilm #156, part 7.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancastaer County " page 198 #5.

Subjects: Groff family.; Graff family.; De Hoff family.; Henry family.; Dressler family.; Trissler family.; Reigart family.; Moravian Church (Lancaster, Pa.); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Additional Author: Landis, Bertha Cochran.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 284.6 L244

Unveiling of Tablet at the Hebron Moravian Cemetery, Lebanon, Pa. Sunday, October 6, 1929

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Date of Publication: 1929.

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v.10, no. 1

Place of Publication: Lebanon, Pa

Publisher: Lebanon County Historical Society ,

Date of Publication: 1929.

Physical Description: p.1-63.

Notes: In: Lebanon County Historical Society paper, v.10, no. 1.

Subjects: Hebron Moravian Cemetery (Lebanon, Pa.); Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Moravian Church - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.

Additional Corporate Author: Lebanon County Historical Society (Lebanon, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v.10, no. 1

The awakening and the early progress of the Pequea, Conestoga and other Susquehanna Valley settlements : as shown by official letters, etc., of the time

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Author: Landis, David M.

Date of Publication: 1921.

rapidly going on. Those letters are mounted in folios entitied "Lancaster County Miscellany" and "Taylor Pa- pers", etc., rstn the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; but that does not stop the fading out of the ink. It is with the greatest diffi- culty even now that some of them may be

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Responsibility: by David M. Landis.

Author: Landis, David M.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1921.

Physical Description: 5-16 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 1

Subjects: Land settlement - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Taylor papers.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 25, number 1 (1921), p. 5-16Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.25