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.
System of Arrangement
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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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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Signers of petition: Joseph Earnhart, William E. Ramsay, William Northemer, [G. Clark], Benjamin Blatcher, Henry Rush, J. M. Deaver, E. B. Jefferis, William Phillips, John A. Moore, William Bear, Israel Penrose.
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Signers of petition: James Hopkins, Samuel Morison, A. S. Ewing, John Long, [G. T. Clark], T. W. Housekeeper, [R. W. Moore], Henry Rush, Thomas Neel, [Frederick] Zarracher, William Showalter, Amos Groff, Elisha S. Baily.
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Signers of petition: John Barker, John Bausman Jr., [signature in German], Benjamin Charles, Gotlieb Sehner, John Eschbach, Jacob Huber Jr., David Caldwell, Henry [Deets], Jacob Peters, John Haverstick, Jacob Bausman.
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Signers of Petition: Adam Breneman, George Withers, Joseph Brenneman, Henry Funk, Christian Schitz, Samuel Holl, Jacob Witmer, Daniel Lintner, Abraham Brenneman, John Wittmer, Henry Manning, Peter Rumel, John Sourbeer, John Hartzler.
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Signers of Petition: John Lovett, William W. Steele, John Watson, Hugh McCullough, Mahlon Pusey, George Aument Sr., Daniel Lefever, James Riddell, William R. Ralston, Michael Glackin, John Snavely, Samuel Maxwell, George Mouson, James Cummings, Samuel Morrisson, Jacob Holl, John McSparran, John Pusey, William Phillips, Vincent Reynolds, Alexander Linton, George Aument Jr.
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Signers of Petition: John Smith, Nathaniel Latchem, Hugh Penny, Samuel Ankrim, Jacob Overholtzer, Henry W. Pannebecker, [ ] R. Gryder, Edward Kennedy, James Riddell, James M. Steele, Charles Glackin, John Hunsbarger, James M. Hopkins, George Morson, Samuel Morisson, John McSparran, Gardner Furniss, John Wilson, Christian Cremer, Henry [Herr], William Phillips, William W. Steele Jr., Alexander Gordon, John W. Kennedy, William E. Ramsey.
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