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. Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by purchaser's name. Most are handwritten on printed forms.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by purchaser's name.
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. Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by purchaser's name. Most are handwritten on printed forms.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by purchaser's name.
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. Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by purchaser's name. Most are handwritten on printed forms.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by purchaser's name.
Signers of Petition: Samuel Houston, Joshua Chamberlin, Jehu Marsh, James Paul, Enoch Passmore, Benjamin F. Houston, William Rhoads, Jacob Mast, Daniel Plank, Henry Skiles, John McNeel, John Koop, G. W. Leaman, Lytle Skiles, Henry Gabel.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
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Signers of Petition: Benjamin F. Houston, James H. Houston, Christian Umble, John Umble, George D. McIlvaine, Enoch Passmore, Samuel Houston, Winfield S. Kennedy, Henry Levingston, Isaac Levingston, James Shaw, Thomas Levingston, William Gallaher.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Signers of Petition: Jacob Martin, James H. Houston, Jacob Reesers, John D. Wilson, Charles Smith, Amos E. Leaman, G. W. Leaman, Elias Eby, Samuel Brinton Jr., John Summers, Benjamin F. Houston, Joseph Dickinson.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
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Signers of Petition: John Myers, John Eby, Christian Hess, James H. Houston, John D. Wilson, Davis Clemson, James A. Wagoner, John Reeser, Lytle Skiles, A. Lightner Henderson, David Dague, Henry Huston, Henry Koffroth.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
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Signers of Petition: Lytle Skiles, George Eagle, John Dunlap, Jacob Miller, Jacob Cloud, [unknown signature], William Buchanan, Josiah Lamborn, John Myers, John B. Myers, Andrew Bailey, Jacob Emrey, Solomon Landis Jr.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
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Located on the turnpike road leading from Downingtown to Ephrata.
Lately occupied by John Piersol.
Petition allowed.
Signers of Petition: John Wallace, John Huston, John B. Luckie, Robert Jenkins, James Jacobs, George Duchman, George Weaver, F. Seeger, Isaac Ellmaker, Anthony Ellmaker Jr., Cyrus Jacobs.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
