Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, deed abstracts & Revolutionary War oaths of allegiance; deed books "A" through "M", 1729 through ca. 1770, with adjoining landowners & witnesses
Abstract of persons born outside of Pa. or the U.S. from the 1850 census : for Bart Twp., Brecknock Twp., Caernarvon Twp., Colerain Twp., Drumore Twp., East Cocalico Twp., Elizabeth Twp., Lancaster Twp., Little Britain Twp., Manor Twp., Martic Twp., and West Cocalico Twp
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.
