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Occupation: surveyor.
Enslaved man listed.
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Classification
RG-03-00-0133
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Item
Custodial History
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.
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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Located about 1 mile from Lancaster on the Marietta Turnpike.
Formerly owned by Mr. Passmore.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: John Passmore, Leonard Eichholtz, Levi Rogers, Henry Pinkerton, John Light, Nathaniel Lightner, Jacob Graeff, C. Hagen, Mathew McKelly, William C. Frazer, Phillip Messenkop, John Miller.
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Signers of Petition: John Summy, Christian Metz, Samuel McKinney, David Rinehart, J. [Ferris], Jacob Graybill, Joshua Ring, [signature in German], Samuel Huston, John Heckrotte, Samuel Ensminger, John Bartruff.
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Located on Old Philadelphia Pike about 13 miles from Lancaster.
Petition granted.
January term.
Signers of Petition: David Brisben, John Rutter, Christian Hess, James Buyers, Hathorn Freeland, Andrew Caldwell, William P. Caldwell, Nathaniel Ellmaker, E. E. Ellmaker, Samuel Ringwalt, George Ellmaker, Christian Sharp. Christian Hurst, George B. Markly, Adam Bare.
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Located on Black Horse Road leading to Lancaster from Port Deposit.
Petition granted.
Second document with one testimony and signature of William C. Hull.
January term.
Signers of Petition: W. McCullough, Jeremiah B. Haines, Edward Wallis, Lewis Haines, Jacob Perdue, John McVey, Joel Jackson, John Stubbs, Samuel Reynolds, James Porter, Elijah Jenkins, George Morry, John Brandt, William C. Hull, John [Hanna], John Webster, Joseph Webster, James Barns, Philip Housekeeper, Mahlon Pusey, Samuel Gundaker, Isaac J. Hutton, Robert Maxwell, William Brown, Jeremiah Brown Jr., George Loius Mayer, Samuel Morisson, George Mayer.
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Signers of Petition: David Brown, Hughes Burk, Joseph Price, Isaac Allen, Amos Ailes, David Brown Jr., Nathaniel Hawkins, William W. Steele, N. W. Boyd, Robert King Jr.
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Signers of Petition: John Webster, W. McCullough, Ezra Quinby, William Best, Jeremiah B. Haines, Isaac Hutton, Isaac Richardson, John McVey, John Hanna.
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Located on the Great Road leading from Lancaster to Port Deposit, and other public roads leading from the same to Wilmington, Elkton, McFalls Ferry, about 4 miles from Peach Bottom.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: James Duncan, Phineas Ash, Jonathan P. Webb, J. Jefferies, David Miller, Joseph Mosher, J. Ramsay, Joseph Richardson, John Wade, James [McKirchan], Samuel Maxwell, George Miller, John Getz, William Hull, Leonard Eichholtz, Michael Strein, George Louis Mayer, William Hambright, George Hambright, Job Reynolds, William Cooper, Nathaniel Lightner, G. Withers, George Peckel, Samuel C. Slaymaker.
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