PA State Archives Records from M[anuscript]G[roup] 6, MG7, and MG8: Engle, Brackbill, & Watson family records/histories, Mt. Joy Orphans School Cert., Other misc records
Miscellaneous items from Pennsylvania State Archives manuscript group 8
Physical Description
23 items
Contents
pt. 1. Engle family journal/diary, 1854-1858 -- pt. 2. History of the Engle family in America, 1754-1927, by Morris M. Engle -- pt. 3. Engle family Bible, 1834-1965 -- pt. 4. Sloan family Bible and records, 1840-1934 -- pt. 5. Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Orphans School attendance certificate for Mary E. Patterson, 1875-1880 -- pt. 6. Lancaster County school attendance records, 1853, 1858-1859 -- pt. 7. Military discharges and pension documents from Silverwood-Minniner-Keiser Collection, Northumbelrand County -- pt. 8. Dresher's School attendance report, 1861-1965, Schuylkill County -- pt. 9. George Pierce's statement of Robert Pennall's birth, 1723 -- pt. 9. Timoth Connor enlistment record, 1747, Ireland -- pt. 10. Johannes Rice indenture, 1751, Philadelphia -- pt. 11. Captain Richard Gray and Mary Ann Rees marriage, 1811, Philadelhpia -- pt. 12. Benjamin Field petition, 1817, Philadelphia -- pt. 13. Phillip Laur petition, 1818, Philadelphia -- pt. 14. Charles E. Frowert indenture, 1827, Philadelphia City -- pt. 15. Haverford Monthly Meeting, Friends testimony, n.d., Montgomery County -- pt. 16. John G. Watmough military service, n.d., Erie and Philadelphia Counties -- pt. 17. Ship Isabella Maria seamen list, n.d. -- pt. 18. Nicholas Cline and George Blough, Certificate of Conocition and Republica, 1782, Lancaster County -- pt. 19. HInes family Bible record, 1826-1872, no location -- pt. 20. German extracts of baptismal protocols of Reformed Church, 1751, no location -- pt. 21. Harmon Gregg petition, 1817, Montgomery County -- pt. 22. Chambers King Collection, 1865, 1871, Armstrong County -- pt. 23. Hocker Family collection, Genealogy of the Watsons, 1760-1909, Lancaster County, by Martha Ziegler Watson.
Notes
Microfilm Salt Lake City ; Genealogical Society of Utah, 1979 1 reel, 35mm.
The oldest inhabitants of the Bowmansville area -- Mennonite pioneers -- Reformed and Lutheran settlers -- A Mennonite congregation emerges -- Samuel Bowman, the founder -- The school fight produces a new Mennonite congregation -- The Yellow Hill Community (Brushtown) -- The Musselman family -- Rocks in the Bowmansville hills -- The 1884 robbery -- St. Paul's Lutheran and Reformed Church -- A famous printing press -- Hosteling comes to Bowmansville -- A twentieth century pioneer.
Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.
