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: Robert F. [Jouze], David Watson, E. Hallowell, Emmor [Himber], F. Hipple, Jacob Foreman, Alexander Cowan, R. S. Currey, John Hauck, Samuel Keller, John McNeill, George Whissler.
1 Item, 1 Piece
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Signers of Petition: Andrew Wade, Robert Richardson, William S. Campbell, Robert Robison, George Keller, A. Campbell, [signature in German], Michael Kauffman, Henry Ober, Jacob Auxer, Henry Frank, William Wilson.
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Signers of Petition: George H. Horning, Charles Rees, James O'Neal, Joseph Shutter, Jacob Sheffey, David Bowman, Isaac Etter, Philip Oldweiler, Frederick Oldweiler, Abraham Green, Jacob Miller, John C. Klein.
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Located on Elliot's Island in the Susquehanna River, opposite the town of Bainbridge.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: John Smith Jr., Joseph Horst, Leonard Clemson, Jacob Siple, F. Hipple, John Ekel, Michael Balsley, R. S. Currey, Nicholas Siple, John Hamilton, John W. Hamilton, James Eagan.
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Signers of Petition: George Blattenberger, Robert H. Jones, Jacob Foreman, John McNeill, Alexander Cowan, Joseph Horst, David Watson, R. S. Currey, John Ekel, John Jones, Emmor Kimber, F. Hipple, Stephen P. Camp, Jacob Funk, Nicholas Ward, Michael Balsley.
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Signers of Petition: John Jones, Henry Haldeman, Joseph Hill, Daniel Haldeman, David Watson, Henry Fogelsong, Joseph Horst, John Hamilton, Henry Rendebaugh, Charles Segrave, Michael Balsley, Rudolph Miller, F. Hipple, R. S. Currey.
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Signers of Petition: James Bryan, Frederick Byrode, A. Greenawalt, David Watson, Christian Martin, Jacob Kauffman, Samuel Redsecker, J. Henry Bohn, Gainer Peirce, Jacob [Gelhard], John Rhoads, Isaac Redsecker, George Redsecker, John Maglauchlin, Conrad Smith, Jacob Redsecker.
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Signers of Petition: Samuel Redsecker, Israel Kurtz, Charles [Ebbecket, Robert Richardson, Cyrus H. Ober, Thomas Curtis, John S. Gish, [signature in German], Andrew Wade, George Redsecker, Samuel Harmoney, James Bryan, John Rhoads, Isaac Bauman, Jacob Redsecker, A. Campbell.
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Signers of Petition: John Bender, A. Campbell, Michael Hoffman, John Bohn, Jacob Redsecker, J. Henry Bohn, Daniel Hoffman, Andrew Wade, John Maglauchlin, James Mackey, Charles [Ebbecke], Samuel Redsecker, James Bryan.
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