Early Lutheran records from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania : includes St. John's Lutheran Church and Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
St. Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church, Derry Township, Dauphin County 1757-1866, from the library of the late Dr. Glenn P. & Carolyn J. Schwalm, Valley View, PA
Records prior to 1810 are on microfilm at Pennsylvania State Archives. Divorce records from 1810-1832 are housed at Lancaster County Historical Society.
Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;
Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Physical Description
4 reels ; 35 mm.
Notes
Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.
Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.
Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.
The Manchester townships, Manchester, West Manchester and East Manchester : and that portion of Hellam Township outside of the Manor of Springettsbury, York County, Pennsylvania
Shares reel with Lancaster county docket of cases, 1743-1749 and the Hamilton family letterbook, 1782-1790.
Labeled on box # 245 Part 1.
500 items.
Miscellaneous papers relating to local government and economic affairs of Lancaster County: letters, 1733-1740, of Samuel Blunston to the proprietors, deal with the disputes between the Maryland and Pennsylvania authorities, land transactions, Indians on the Susquehanna, politics, legal matters, etc; letters of Thomas Cookson, George Craig, William Parsons, Richard Peters, George Smith, and others, 1739-1764; material on Conrad Weiser, 1756; accounts of Indian massacres, 1755; petitions, court records, surveys, indentures, land warrants, tax returns; petitions and lists of names of tavern keepers, 1766, 1769; account of the plan of the town of York, 1749; list of books added to the Lancaster library, ca. 1770; list of subscribers for the relief of inhabitants of Boston, Mass., 1774; military accounts and muster rolls, 1776; wills, estate papers, broadsides, and other items.
Original manuscript in collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
For a photocopied index to this collection see LC 016 I38 Oversize.
Church register of the United Reformed and Lutheran Church, called Blimyers...1766-1834 : extracted from Pennsylvania German Society Proceedings and addresses, v.8 (1898)
