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.
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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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Record of applications for peddlers' licenses showing date of application, name of applicant, type of license, and dates granted and lifted. Many applications for soldiers' licenses; these are peddlers' licenses issued to honorably discharged veterans. Handwritten.
System of Arrangement
Organized by year, then alphabetically by surname.
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Person of color.
Petition.
25st Regiment, Company R, U. S. Colored Volunteers.
Civil War.
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Situated on the forks of the road from Reamstown, Cocalico Twp. to Womelsdory, Berks County, and the road from Sheafferstown, Lebanon County, to Reading.
Transfer from Jacob Cooper.
Petition granted.
January term.
Signers of petition: [signature in German], Michael Witzel, Jacob Bechtel, Joseph [Palm], [signature in German], Henry Flickinger, [Michael Burkholder], R. R. Heitler, [signature in German], [signature in German], Abraham Good, [signature in German], William Crouse, [Dierich Marchall], [signature in German], Samuel Hornberger, [signature in German], [signature in German], [signature in German], John Brunner.
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Signers of Petition: George Ferree, [ ] Nagle, John Clements, Frederick Franck, C. Imhoff, John Jay Libhart, Jacob Glatz, Jacob Graybill, Samuel McKinney, Abraham Cassel, F. Wilson, John Paules, Robert King, James Stackhouse.
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Signers of Petition: John Jay Libhart, John Paules, John Young, John Hertzler Jr., John H. Goodman, William Child, Samuel Huston, Jacob Scheidly, [signature in German], F. Flury, Alexander Boggs, John Park, F. Wilson.
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Located on Second Street opposite Mrs. St. John's house.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: Francis Flury, Jacob Scheidly, Alexander Boggs, Jacob Glatz, John H. Goodman, A. N. Cassel, John Auxer, Abraham Cassel, Jacob Graybill, [David Cassel], Christian Groh, William A. Spangler, Samuel Patterson, Frederick Haines.
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Located on Second Street, adjoining Walnut Street.
Petition granted.
January term.
Signers of Petition: John Auxer, Samuel McKinney, James Stackhouse, John H. Goodman, John Young, Henry Sultzbach, Simon S. Nagle, William A. Spangler, John Jay Libhart, O. McDonald, [unknown signatures], B. Libhart, John Huss.
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Formerly occupied by David Cassel, John Cassel and last year by Benjamin Rutter.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: George Ferree, Frederick Nagle, John Clements, C. Imhoff, John Jay Libhart, David Cassel, Jacob Glatz, Samuel McKinney, F. Wilson, John Hertzler Jr., Abraham Cassel, John Young, David Cassel Jr., John Auxer, Robert King.
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