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.
System of Arrangement
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 northwest corner of Fourth and Cherry Streets. Petition not granted.
January term.
Signers of Petition: James Boyd, Robert McDowell, Joseph Black, William Hissin, Joseph W. Cottrell, P. B. Elder, John Swartz, Michael Strein, Peter Haldeman, C. Haldeman, Joseph I. Strickler, Jacob Gossler, Francis Boggs, James Crow, George Zeigler, John Gonter Jr., James Wright, J. F. Cottrell, Michael Way, Jacob Fisher, Thomas Todd, Charles [Hathorn], Thomas Mullin.
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Signers of Petition: James Shaw, Isaac Bower, George Cooper, James [Rea] Jr., Joshua Chamberlin, George Vearntz, John Townsend, Samuel Sellers, Amos Townsend, Joseph C. Dickinson, John Murray, A. Draucker.
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Signers of Petition: George Chamberlin, Isaac Walker Jr., James Noble, Leonard Rockey, James Williams, Joseph C. Dickinson, John Williams Sr., Milton Cooper, Christopher Corbitt, James Armstrong Jr., Thomas Leech, George Rockey Jr., C. Hartley, Christian Sherts.
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Signers of Petition: Levi Pownall Jr., E. Irwin, [William] Noble, Joseph Pownall, William Cooper, Samuel Simmons, Thomas Leech, Abner Brooke, Adam Fogle, Leonard Rockey, George [Megrade], Joseph M. Thompson, Yarnall Cooper, Jeremiah Cooper, James Sproul.
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Located on the road from White Horse on the Philadelphia turnpike to Bells Paper Mills.
Formerly occupied by Washing Brooke, deceased.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: Andrew Noble, James Sproul, E. Irwin, S. Slokom, James Clemson, Adam Draucker, William Maxwell, Zachariah B. Williams, Christopher Williams, Robert Agnew, Rudolph Harley, Ephraim Robison.
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Signers of Petition: Thomas Henderson, Samuel Houston, Joshua Chamberlin, Enoch Passmore, David Henderson, Jacob [Swartzenelder], Daniel Plank, Benjamin F. Houston, J. G. Henderson, James H. Houston, A. Lightner Henderson, William Henderson, Matthew Henderson, Davis Clemson, Williams Levingston.
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Located on the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: Joshua Linvill, James Paul, Jacob Swartzenelder, Christian Umble, John Umble, Winfield S. Kennedy, Samuel Duffield, Robert P. Buyers, Maxwell Kennedy, Thomas W. Henderson, Enoch Passmore, George W. Buckley.
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