Documents filed with the Court of Common Pleas by municipalities in Lancaster County placing liens on real estate. The overwhelming majority were filed by the City of Lancaster. The next greatest number were filed by the Borough of Columbia. Other liens were filed by the boroughs of Adamstown, Ephrata, New Holland, Quarryville, Strasburg, and Washington. The liens show docket book and page numbers, the name of property owner, and then describe the location and size of the property along with buildings and improvements, the amount of money in question, and the cause for the assessment. These documents were recorded in Municipal Lien Docket Books 2 through 5, and are arranged in the order they appear therein. This leads to an oddity in filing order, in that the last 45 liens in Book 4 fall out of chronological sequence, overlapping and extending slightly beyond the dates of the liens in Book 5. Handwritten, plus a very few typewritten.
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Located on the Susquehanna, near Galbraith's Landing and just below the Conewago Falls.
Petition disallowed.
Signers of Petition: John Wolfley, Jacob Gisch, George Wolfley, Jonathan Hough, Joseph Attwood, George Shocker, William White, Christian Reesor, Charles Wede, John Hough, John B. Haldeman, Terah Jones, and one other.
1 item, 1 piece
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Located on the turnpike road from Elizabethtown to Falmouth.
Petition allowed.
Signers of Petition: John Wolfley, George Shocker, George Wolfley, Jacob Wolfley, A. C. Price, Joseph Attwood, William White, Michael Coble, John Willet, George Wisler, Frederick Byrod, Hugh Speer, and one other.
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Located on the road from New Holland to the Blue Ball Tavern.
Owned by Daniel Oberly.
Petition disallowed.
Signers of Petition: Henry Wickel, Samuel May, Robert McCurdry, John Wallace, George Sheafer, John Sheafer, Peter Diller, John Barkley, David Miller, David Oberly, Isaac Diller, Benjamin Diffenderfer, Edward Smith, John Luther, Henry Roland, Christopher Brenner, Hugh Wilson, Philip Messenkop, John Reitzel, John Light, W. P. Atlee, and three others.
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Located on the Horseshoe Road between New Holland and the Blue Ball.
Owned by Daniel Oberly.
Petition disallowed.
Signers of Petition: John Sheafer, George Duchman, Adam Sheafer, John Wallace, Robert McCurdy, David Shirk, Henry Parmer, Henry Wickel, Edward Smith, Jacob Diffenderfer, George Ax, John Luther, Isaac Holy, and one other.
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Signers of Petition: George Thompson, Samuel Holl, Peter Diller, Henry Roland, James Martin, Henry Hambright, David Shirk, Wendel Holl, Jacob Diffenderfer.
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Located on the road from Lancaster to Reading, between ten and eleven miles from Lancaster.
Petition allowed.
Signers of Petition: Jacob Adams, Peter Brown, Adam Braim, Jacob Saller, Andrew Yundt, Samuel Carpenter, Peter Gonter, Adam Reigart, Charles Montelius, Jacob Hower, William Ramsey, Henry Smith, Christian Meyer, John Sensenman, John Mohler, Abraham Konigmacher, Jacob Kimmell, Emanuel Reigart, William Kirkpatrick, John Forney, and five others.
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Located on the great road leading from Lebanon to Lititz and Lancaster.
Signers of Petition: Benjamin Landes, Michael Mosser, Joseph Kratzer Jr., John Colb, Jacob Roinlz, D. Krause, Peter Gleninger, Frederick Embich, John Shank, Joseph Kratzer Sr., John Kratzer, Peter Semler, and several others.
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Located four miles from Borough of Lancaster, on south side of Turnpike Road leading from the borough to Harrisburg.
Formerly occupied by Jacob Getz.
Petition allowed.
Signers of Petition: David Miller, Jacob Steman, John Swar, Jacob Swope, Daniel Wolff, Jacob Fotz, John Peden, Gerhart Buback, Stephen Hornberger, and 3 others.
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