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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Located on the Lancaster and Reading road, seven miles from Lancaster at the junction of same and road leading from Columbia to Reading to New Holland.
Petition granted.
January term.
Signers of Petition: Jacob Zercher, John Steinman, Philip Shreiner, John Young, Martin Eckman, David Good, John Carpenter, Isaac Carpenter, Christian Carpenter Jr., John McCleery, Martin Mayer, John Heller, John Johns, William Weidler, Peter Fieles, John Feather, Jacob Reist, Benjamin Johnson, Christian S. Brubaker, John Brubaker, A. Dietrich, George Mayer, George W. Henry, John Hatz, [signature in German], [signature in German], Ingham Wood, John Grubb, Jacob Weitzel, Frederick Hambright, George Rysinger, J. Zimmerman, William Hambright, William Miller, Jacob Hoffmeier, John Kauffman, David Hummel, John Ruth, A. Sheaffer, Reuben Weidler, Christian Kauffman, Jesse Sellers, Curtis Sellers, [signature in German], [signature in German], Isaac Brown, Daniel Shissler, Jacob [Gaull], Andrew Hetzel, [signature in German], Abraham Myers, Henry Garber, Isaac Ressler, [unknown signature], Jacob Shisler, Jonas Nolt, John Kuhn, [signature in German], [signature in German], Daniel Royer, Henry Landis, Andrew Menold, Michael Stauffer, John B. Sneder, John S. Black Jr., John Hamilton, Adam Pickel, Jacob Grub, David Grub, [signature in German], Caspar Grub, Isaac Leib, [signature in German], Henry Master, Conrad Master, Henry Zercher, John Leib, Jacob Leib, William Roland, [signature in German], Henry Rudy, Samuel Sellers, Christian Rudy, Daniel Rudy, Jacob Landis, Peter Forney, Abraham Colden, Samuel Hallacher, Frederick Kline, Absalom Sellers, Michael Fisher, John Ruth, James Todd, John Lutz, George Diller, William Smith, Benjamin Stehman, Samuel Reemsnyder, Samuel Snyder, Jacob Sherer, Adam Diller, [signature in German], Jacob Steman, [signature in German].
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Located on road leading from Lancaster to Manheim.
Formerly occupied by Mr. Franck.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: David Mayer, Jacob Myer Jr., John Kauffman, Christian Brubaker, [signature in German], [signature in German], W. B. Ross, Joseph Hartman, Adam Guiesinger, George Guiesinger, Isaac Ringwalt, John Graff, Matthias Brooke, John Witmer, David Rohrer, Emanuel Gibble, David Stamm, Abraham Landis, Jacob Rathfon, Philip Mosher, George Biegler, Christian Stoner.
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Signers of Petition: Samuel Ensminger, John Bartruff, Tobias Miller, Samuel Deyer, Daniel Henneberger, Jacob Mayers, William Russell, Peter Pritz, George Pritz, Joseph Hartman, John Welker, Christian Stauffer, John Miller, Christian Myers, Daniel McLaird.
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Signers of Petition: David May, Emanuel Deyer, Abraham Hochstetter, [signature in German], [signature in German], [signature in German], David Meffert, [signature in German], [signature in German], John Foss, Joseph Landis, Jacob Blattenberger, Jacob Nefe, Jacob Mayer, A. Smith, [signature in German], Martin Rudisill, William Wagner.
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Located on road leading from Lancaster to Washington.
Petition not granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: Christian Wisler, Jacob Kramer, Jacob Wisler, Jacob Wisler, Jacob [Fray], Henry Lindeman, John Lindeman, Jacob Wittmer, Thomas Roberts, John [Funck], Samuel Haines Jr., Jacob Garber, Henry [Hoober], [signature in German], John Mann, David Way, John Lutz, John Stoner, Jacob Carrigan, [unknown signature], Henry Krdey, Peter Hiestand Jr., David Neff, [signature in German], George Lutz, Frederick Stoner, Abraham Shenk, Henry Shenk, Christian Grosh, [signature in German], John Bletz, Adam Brenner, John Miller, John Habecker, Jacob Eberman, Jacob Brenner, John Cready, George Kready, Thomas [Straubridge], John Charles, Jacob Kauffman, Benjamin Kauffman, James Phillips, Joseph Wright, [signature in German], Andrew Kaufman, Henry Schock, Jesse Roberts, Joseph Green, R. [Mitchener], Lewis Urban, Joseph S. Wallace, Robert Magill, Daniel Neff, Benjamin Green.
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