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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-14-06-08
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Object Name
Negative
Collection
General Collection
Description
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.
Provenance
From the Slaymaker Collection
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Scott, Abraham
Scott, Dinah
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Documents
Enslaved persons
Letters
Pequea Presbyterian Church
Negatives
Object Name
Negative
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Object ID
2-14-06-08
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-14-06-09
  1 image  
Object Name
Negative
Collection
General Collection
Description
Document appointing Henry F. Slaymaker justice of the peace of Salisbury Twp., October 7, 1823.
Provenance
From the Slaymaker Collection
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Slaymaker, Henry F.
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Justices of the Peace
Salisbury Twp.
Documents
Appointments
Negatives
Object Name
Negative
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Object ID
2-14-06-09
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-14-06-13
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Object Name
Negative
Collection
General Collection
Description
Document allowing Amos Slaymaker to run a public house in Salisbury Twp. dated April 18, 1797.
Provenance
From the Slaymaker Collection
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Slaymaker, Amos
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Documents
Public houses
Salisbury Twp.
Negatives
Object Name
Negative
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Object ID
2-14-06-13
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-14-06-17
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Object Name
Negative
Collection
General Collection
Description
Amos Slaymaker, superintendent of Western half of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike - account of work done on the road in 1801.
Provenance
From the Slaymaker Collection
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Slaymaker, Amos
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Documents
Turnpikes
Negatives
Object Name
Negative
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Object ID
2-14-06-17
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-14-06-22
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Object Name
Negative
Collection
General Collection
Description
Insurance policy of Benjiman Hershey of Leacock Twp. from the Lancaster Mutual Insurance Company signed by Henry Slaymaker, Secretary and Samuel Duffield, President.
Provenance
From the Slaymaker Collection
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Hershey, Benjamin
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Leacock Twp.
Lancaster Mutual Insurance Co.
Insurance policies
Negatives
Object Name
Negative
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Object ID
2-14-06-22
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-14-06-23
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Object Name
Negative
Collection
General Collection
Description
Card about Christiana trolley cars and when they leave Lancaster for Slaymakertown. Also invitation to reception of 100th Anniversary of White Chimneys, September 26, 1907. And title page to sermon given by Rev. Thomas Street at the Presbyterian Church in York on March 9, 1862 at the death of Jonathan S. Slaymaker.
Provenance
From the Slaymaker Collection
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Slaymaker, Jonathan S.
Street, Rev. Thomas
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Trolleys
White Chimneys
Slaymakertown, Salisbury Twp.
Object Name
Negative
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Object ID
2-14-06-23
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-14-06-25
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Object Name
Negative
Collection
General Collection
Description
Land draft of two tracts of land in Salisbury Twp. - one surveyed February 1812 containing 79 1/4 acres and 6 perches, the other surveyed in 1797 containing 10 acres.
Provenance
From the Slaymaker Collection
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Land drafts
Salisbury Twp.
Surveys
Negatives
Object Name
Negative
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Object ID
2-14-06-25
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
2-14-06-30
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Object Name
Negative
Collection
General Collection
Description
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.
Provenance
From the Slaymaker Collection
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Baker, Joseph c.
Slaymaker, Amos
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Documents
Stocks
Good Intent Company
Bridges
Susquehanna River
Object Name
Negative
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Object ID
2-14-06-30
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Collection
General Collection
Title
Photograph- Covered bridge, possibly near Ephrata and Reamstown. Negative only.
Object ID
1-05-03-70
  1 image  
Object Name
Negative
Collection
General Collection
Title
Photograph- Covered bridge, possibly near Ephrata and Reamstown. Negative only.
Description
Covered bridge, possibly near Ephrata and Reamstown. Negative only.
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Bridges
Covered bridges
Place
East Cocalico Twp.
Object Name
Negative
Object ID
1-05-03-70
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Collection
General Collection
Object ID
1-19-01-33
Date Range
c. 1930
  1 image  
Object Name
Negative
Collection
General Collection
Description
Covered bridge near Kirkwood over West Branch Octoraro Creek, built 1872.
Provenance
Transferred from the Bob Swartz Collection at the Lower Merion Historical Society, May 6, 2014.
Date Range
c. 1930
Creator
Kurtz, Howard G. Sr.
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Search Terms
Covered bridges
Octoraro Creek, West Branch
Place
Colerain Twp.
Object Name
Negative
Film Size
3 x 4.75 inches
Object ID
1-19-01-33
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