Signers of petition: David Bair, John Bair, George Clark, Alexander Gordon, John W. Kennedy, Charles T. Todd, William E. Smith, William Northamer, William R. Ralston, Jacob Leaman, Gardner Furness, T. W. Housekeeper, William W. Steele, Joshua M. Deaver.
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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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Petitions to Make Sheriff's Deeds may be searched in the online collection database. https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/
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The Mayor's Court was established at the incorporation of the City of Lancaster in 1818, and was composed of the mayor, recorder, and aldermen with powers and jurisdiction analogous to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail Delivery. It was abolished on 6 February 1849.
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Located on the road leading from Towsan town to Andrew's Bridge.
Formerly kept by Margaret Kennedy.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: [Ross A.] Campbell, Henry Keylor, John Keylor, James Brown, Benjamin B. Eshleman, James McCord, Arthur [Branon], [Louis] Calwell, [Thomas] McQuire, James McQuigg, Hugh Donnelly, Joseph Green, John Eckman.
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Located on the road leading from Strasburg to Oxford in Chester County.
Petition not granted.
January term.
Signers of Petition: John Eckman, Levi Peirce, William Pickel, William Murphy, Benjanim Breneman, Samuel Baughman, Abraham Mann, Bernard McCaffery, James Manahan, James Paxton, Benjamin B. Eshleman, John McGovern, Samuel Hagans, Thomas Walker, [Ross A.] Campbell, J. A. Steele, William Kunkel, John Barr, Thomas Withers.
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Signers of Petition: Francis Caughery, Robert Stuart, Jacob Stoner, George Webster, George Webster Jr., John Bushong Jr., John Kidd, Truman Cooper, Richard Byson, [unknown signature], Gainer Moore, James Horner Jr., Henry Bushong, George Heidlebaugh, Jesse McCallister, Benjamin Baxter, John McClure, Philip Ritz, Jacob Baughman, John Mathews, William K. Clark, Jacob Hummel, Daniel Gaist, Noah McQuire, John S. Carpenter, John Homsher, Jacob Bushong, Joshua Gilbert, Joseph Dickey, Henry Heidlebaugh, Asa Walton, Thomas Hast, George Whitson, Samuel Moore, Lewis Moore, W. L. Rakestraw, Thomas Rakestraw, John McClure Sr., John McClure, James Baxtel, David McClure, Micah Witson, Benjamin Baxter, Jacob Ritz, John W. Ritz, Samuel McLaughery, John Heidlebaugh, Peter Pickle, Peter Baughman, John Baughman.
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Signers of Petition: Cornelius Collins, Thomas C. Collins, Thomas Moderwell, Benjamin Wayne, John Moderwell, Hugh Andrews, Joseph Paxson, Cyrus Milner, William C. Horner, Samuel A. Smith, James Horner, John B. Kennedy, J. McClellan, David Souder, Robert Evans, William Webster, John McCamman, John Caughey.
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Signers of Petition: Jacob Lauch, Robert Barton, Samuel McColm, Henry Myer, Daniel Messner, Jacob Coldren, Isaac Messner, [signature in German], Cyrus Messner, Abraham Bixler, William B. Schneider, [John H. Sengel], John Bixler, Samuel Youndt, John Fanckhauser, Samuel Martin, Isaac Weaver, Samuel Lessley, Levi Bixler.
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Signers of Petition: Thomas H. Davies, Thomas McMichael, John Yohn, John McCamant, James P. Davies, Cyrus H. Jacobs, David Mast, Samuel Rauser, [J. Hunter Jacobs], Evan Rogers, Thomas Edwards, John Robison, Elisha Squibb, L. Rogers.
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