Two documents: top - civil case about debt owed to Jasper Slaymaker, James Buchanan was attorney, 1820. bottom: list of improvements to the farm, no date?
Parts of four documents: 1. Inventory of Amos Slaymaker. 2. Will of Henry Slaymaker. 3. Account of Laurence Slaymaker. 4. Inventory of Henry Slaymaker.
Three framed documents: 1. Return of enslaved persons - Abraham Scott, b. February 4, 1795, son of Dinah Scott, belonging to Amos Slaymaker. 2. Letter from G. Washington dated October 7, 1779. 3. Members of Presbyterian Congregation of Pequea, 1795.
Document commissioning Henry F. Slaymaker captain of the 7th Company of the 98th Regiment of the Militita of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth, Second Brigade, Fourth Division of Militia of Lancaster County, August 3, 1811.
Note signed by Peter Grubb and Amos Slaymaker, dated March 24, 1812. Marriage certificate of Samuel C. Slaymaker and Jane E. Redsecker dated May 28, 1862.
Three documents: 1. Stock certificated of Joseph C. Baker for two shares of Susquehanna Bridge at Colubmia dated January 6, 1815. 2. Amos Slaymaker stock certificate for 28 shares of the Good Intent Company dated October 22, 1834. 3. Certificated showing that Amos Slayaker paid ten dollars for first installment of payment for two shars of company erecting bridge over Susquehanna River dated August 18, 1812.
Photograph- John H. Evans, reputed to have been Lancaster's first professional architect, was hired to design Building #4 of the Lancaster County Almshouse - familiar to older Lancastrians as the "County Home". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 96.
Photograph- John H. Evans, reputed to have been Lancaster's first professional architect, was hired to design Building #4 of the Lancaster County Almshouse - familiar to older Lancastrians as the "County Home". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 96.
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John H. Evans, reputed to have been Lancaster's first professional architect, was hired to design Building #4 of the Lancaster County Almshouse - familiar to older Lancastrians as the "County Home". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 96.
