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Petition

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/c478a114-8b1d-4cf4-a24e-955852596951
Collection
Lancaster County Historical Government Records
Title
Petitions to Make Sheriff's Deeds
Object ID
RG 01-00 [1840]
Date Range
1783-1902
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Collection
Lancaster County Historical Government Records
Title
Petitions to Make Sheriff's Deeds
Description
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.
Date Range
1783-1902
Year Range From
1783
Year Range To
1902
Date of Accumulation
1783, 1800, 1823-1827, 1895, 1902
Creator
Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas, Office of the Prothonotary
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
Subjects
Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Lancaster County)
Petitions
Real property
Search Terms
Court of Common Pleas
Petitions
Real estate
Sheriff's sales
Sheriffs
Extent
1 Box
Object Name
Petition
Language
English
Object ID
RG 01-00 [1840]
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection, Title and Object ID, Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Petitions to Make Sheriff's Deeds may be searched in the online collection database. https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Please request at Reference Desk or Research@LancasterHistory.org.
Copyright
Copies of historic Lancaster County, Pennsylvania government records held by LancasterHistory may be published without special permission. There is no fee for publication. Proper credit lines are encouraged in the interest of good documentation.
Credit
Courtesy of Lancaster County Archives and LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Classification
RG 01-00 [1840]
Description Level
Series
Custodial History
Added to database 03 Feb 2024.
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Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2f5113cf-e646-46e9-877d-537459210451
Collection
Broadsides Collection
Title
Broadsides Collection
Object ID
MG0357
Date Range
1775-1958
Lyceum Pennsylvania General Assembly, House of Representatives Petitions Philadelphia Mourning Store, Jones & Fisher Poetry Political posters Posters Programs Railroads Reports Review Print Russel & Myers S. B. Cox and Company Sheriffs Slackwater Turnpike Stockholders Stocks Tolls Union and Tribune
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Collection
Broadsides Collection
Title
Broadsides Collection
Description
This collection contains broadsides for lectures, stores, businesses, and organizations.
Date Range
1775-1958
Year Range From
1775
Year Range To
1958
Date of Accumulation
1775-1958
Creator
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 09
People
Bailey, Francis
Becker, John
Bomberger, M.
Bowman, Michael
Brinton, F.
Bryson, J. H.
Chryst, Drue Young
Chryst, James
Conyngham, Redmond
Cromwell, J.
Deshong, P. M.
Eply, John
Eshleman, Elam Witmer
Fahnestock, William B.
Funk, Amos H.
Gable, Jacob
Haines, Samuel B.
Harbaugh, Henry
Hershey, Benjamin
Jefferies, Thomas
Kennedy, J. P. M.
Landis, Benjamin
Landis, David
Landis, Jesse
Landis, John
Lefever, John
Lehman, John S.
Lindsay, John J.
List, Friedrich
Mathiot, John
Maxwell, Hugh
McCall, H. W.
Mercer, J. Q.
Messersmith, Jacob
Metzler, Christian E.
Michael, J.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Scott, Joseph
Shreiner, Martin
Steele, John F.
Stevens, Enos
Witmer, A. K.
Witmer, Henry
Wylie, S. A.
Subjects
Broadsides
Political posters
Posters
Search Terms
Advertisements
Announcements
Arithmetic
Boys Work Fund
Broadsides
Camons Island
Cheap Job Printer, Lancaster Inquirer
Court of Quarter Sessions
Cromwell & Bomberger
Finding aids
Flyers
Frantz's Mill
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Lancaster Adler
Lancaster County Prison
Lancaster Soil Conservation District
Lancaster Unemployed Council
Lititz Turnpike Company
Manor Turnpike Company
Manuscript groups
Mayors
Mount Vista Gold and Silver Mining Company
New York and Pennsylvania Oil and Coal Mining Company
Newspapers
Notices
Paradise Lyceum
Pennsylvania General Assembly, House of Representatives
Petitions
Philadelphia Mourning Store, Jones & Fisher
Poetry
Political posters
Posters
Programs
Railroads
Reports
Review Print
Russel & Myers
S. B. Cox and Company
Sheriffs
Slackwater Turnpike
Steam Book and Job Printing
Stockholders
Stocks
Tolls
Union and Tribune Office
Youth Appreciation Week
Extent
2 boxes, 19 folders, 1 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English, German, and Pennsylvania German
Object ID
MG0357
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.
Copyright
Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Other Numbers
MG-357
Classification
MG0357
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Added to database 3 January 2022.
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Record, Judicial

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/ccd96c79-31be-4ac6-b261-016530992788
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
AUG 1785 F003 QS
Date Range
1785/08
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Date Range
1785/08
Year
1785
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
People
Bilineslee, Alexander
Billonsby, Alexander
Cunningham, Hugh
Stewart, James
McKee, John
Griffith, John
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Quarter Sessions
Recognizance
Commitment papers
Jailors
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
AUG 1785 F003 QS
Additional Notes
Or Billonsby, Alexander.
Commitment by Hugh Cunningham, jailkeeper.
Recognizance.
Additional names: James Stewart, John McKee, John Griffith.
2 items, 2 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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Record, Judicial

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/ccd6beb4-7da6-4531-bca1-503223596400
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions document regarding John Hoover
Object ID
JUN 1781 F004 QS
Date Range
1781/06
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions document regarding John Hoover
Date Range
1781/06
Year
1781
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
People
Cunningham, Hugh
Green, Timothy
Hoover, John
Umberger, Leonard
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Subjects
Prisoners
Search Terms
Incarcerated persons
Jailors
Quarter Sessions
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
JUN 1781 F004 QS
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Additional Notes
Acknowledgement from jailkeeper, Hugh Cunningham, that defendant was received into jail.
Additional names: Leonard Umberger, Timothy Green.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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Petition

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/269c71a6-171d-4940-91ab-330139166824
Collection
Liquor License Papers
Title
Liquor License Papers
Object ID
Tav 1780 F14 I01
Date Range
1780
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Collection
Liquor License Papers
Title
Liquor License Papers
System of Arrangement
Arranged by municipalities by year.
Date Range
1780
Year
1780
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
Storage Container
Box 0001
People
Murrow, Abraham
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Petitions
Taverns
Harris' Ferry
Paxton Twp., Lancaster County
Object Name
Petition
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
Tav 1780 F14 I01
Box Number
001
Additional Notes
Place taken from Liquor License Docket Book copy.
Located at Harris's Ferry.
Petitioner is the innkeeper at the public house and ferry.
[Paxton Twp., Lancaster County]
Signers of petition: none.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0602
Description Level
Item
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Record, Judicial

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/16bf723c-32c3-49dc-a90e-426346393119
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
FEB 1785 F004 QS
Date Range
1785/02
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Date Range
1785/02
Year
1785
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
People
Kuch, John
Zanck, Jacob
Haase, Conrad
Eichholtz, Leonard
Bennett, Henry
App, Michael
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Quarter Sessions
Petitions
Peddlers
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
FEB 1785 F004 QS
Additional Notes
Petition for peddler's license.
Signers of petition: Jacob Zanck, Conrad Haase, Leonard Eichholtz, Henry Bennett, Michael App.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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Record, Judicial

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/29a128e7-d7d8-43c8-92c3-018583122230
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
FEB 1785 F009 QS
Date Range
1785/02
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Date Range
1785/02
Year
1785
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Quarter Sessions
Petitions
Roads
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
FEB 1785 F009 QS
Additional Notes
Road petition, road from Estherton by Faulklers Mill, to a public road, leading from the foot of the Blue Mountain, to Middleton.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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Petition

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/7fa3e6db-0859-4c60-a16a-557291232351
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
MAR 1786 F004 QS
Date Range
1786/03
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Date Range
1786/03
Year
1786
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Cartwright, Charles
Ellis, Richard
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Quarter Sessions
Charge: horse stealing
Petitions
Object Name
Petition
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
MAR 1786 F004 QS
Additional Notes
Petition to discharge [ ] Barnes from payment of recognizance.
Defendant charged with horse stealing.
Petitioner: Richard Ellis
Clerical error regarding discharge.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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Record, Judicial

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/6320dfcd-7c79-4ad0-892c-243457339139
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
MAY 1787 F002 QS
Date Range
1787/05
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Date Range
1787/05
Year
1787
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
People
McCobb, William
McCobb, Jane
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Quarter Sessions
Colerain Twp.
Petitions
Overseers of the Poor
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
MAY 1787 F002 QS
Additional Notes
Additional name: Jane McCobb.
Petition to Overseers of the Poor of Colerain Twp.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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Record, Judicial

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/cb032356-1a9b-4f06-92db-545857069318
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
NOV 1787 F003 QS
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Year
1787
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Cather, Frances
Farqure, Hugh
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Quarter Sessions
Adjudications
Petitions
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
NOV 1787 F003 QS
Additional Notes
Petition for adjudment of indenture against Hugh Farqure.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
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