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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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.
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.
Now occupied as a boarding school for young ladies.
Remonstrance.
April term.
Signers of petition: Samuel P. Bower, Daivd McCarter, John Benner, William Giles, Abraham Smith, Jacob Bower, Samuel Moore, R. B. Groff, Thomas [Hartsough], Abraham Owen, John Shaub, John Reid, Martin Carman, William Brown, [unknown signature], Daniel Griner, William Black, C. W. L. J. Kloz.
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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: Alexander Gordon, David Bair, A. S. Ewing, John McSparran, Samuel Morisson, James W. Steele, Joseph Bradley, Joshua M. Deaver, John C. Walton, G. Morison, Felix Sweigart, William Rodgers, Thomas Neel.
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Signers of petition: John Haverstick, Jacob Lichty, H. Kauffman, David Caldwell, Samuel Hershey, Christian Lintner, Jacob Peters, John Baker, Godfrey Pyfer, David Herr, John Eschbach, Christian Eschbach, 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: George Heagy, Nathaniel Evans, [ ] Hunter, James Collins, Francis Hawthorn, Daniel Zahm, James C. Carpenter, George Wolf, Joshua Vaughen, Charles Evans, Reuben Hamilton, Benjamin Young, George Weaver, John Wilson.
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