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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Signers of Petition: John Getz Jr., John Landis, John Swar, Martin Schwar, Henry Bear, Peter Swar, George Getz, Christian Hoffman, Henry Musselman, Henry M. Rugart, Andrew Kauffman, John Betz, Jacob Kauffman, Christian Heistand, Benjamin Bear, Henry Lichty.
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Signers of Petition: Christian Landis, Benjamin Bear, [signature in German], Tobias Kauffman, Peter Schwar, Christian Beker, Christian Hoffman, Christian Heistand, [signature in German], Jacob Johnson, John Bringoff, Henry Musselman, [signature in German], [signature in German], David Kauffman, Michael Seitz.
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Signers of Petition: Abraham Hoefgen, Joseph Kinsch, Benjamin Bear, Jacob Harnish, Jacob Myers, Daniel J. Grosh, George Brown, Jacob Diffinderfer, Anthony Fisher, Henry Baer, [signature in German], Stephen Hornberger, John Lehman, Ezekiel William, Michael Seitz, Henry Coughenour.
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Located on the Columbia and Lancaster turnpike, 3 miles from Lancaster.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: Henry Hornberger, Benjamin Bear, Michael Seitz, George Brown, Jacob Mayer, John Lehman, [signature in German], Jacob Eshleman, Jacob Gamber, Jacob Harnish, Abraham Hoefgen, Jacob Frank.
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Located 3 miles from Lancaster, on the Harrisburg turnpike.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: Henry Bear, Michael Seitz, Andrew Kauffman, Schwar Peter, Daniel Kurtz, Andrew Bear, Jacob Myers, Jacob Hershey, John Johns, Simon Minich, John Bostick, Henry M. Reigart, Christian Eggert, John Swar.
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Signers of Petition: Jacob Aker, Christian Eggert, John Lutz, Benjamin Hershey, John Bostick, Jacob Hottenstein, John Stauffer, Andrew Bear, Henry M. Reigart, [signature in German], Jacob Hershey, Philip Brehm, Andrew Kauffman, Michael Moore, Simon Minich, John Minnich, John Workman, Peter L. Grosh, Peter Summy, Jacob Brown, Andrew Kauffman, John Kaufman, John Miller, Henry Miller, Jacob Snyder, Thomas Grosh, Samuel Parker, John Kauffman.
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Signers of Petition: Abraham Hoefgen, Benjamin Bear, Michael Seitz, Henry Imhoff, [signature in German], Daniel J. Grosh, John Dunkel, John Lehman, Henry Bear, [signature in German], Jacob Diffenderfer, Jacob Gamber, George Brown, Henry Coughenour, John Denlinger, Christian Landis, Frederick Metzger, John Hernly, Michael Dillinger.
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Located at the Marietta turnpike road, 4 miles west of Lancaster.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: Christian Baer, John Landis, Christian Habecker, Michael Seitz, Abraham Hoefgen, George Brown, Benjamin Bear, John Lehman, Henry Baer, [signature in German], John Shyrich, [signature in German].
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