Signers of petition: William Wilig, John Johns, Jacob Hershey, John H. Kauffman, Christian L. Hershey, Henry L. Hershey, Joseph Coughenour, Christian Kauffman, Henry M. Weiler, John McGovern, George Weiler, J. B. Landis.
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Smedley & Son Prospect Mills Day Book C contains an index of clients and what pages they appear on, an itemized list of their profits and expenses, an index of sales and where they are found, and the employees of the mill and what they were being compensated for. The profits list ranges from selling corn, wheat, bran, oats, and flour, as well as sawing boards, turning trundle posts, and rejoining carriage shafts. The recorded expenses for the mill include employee wages and transportation costs.
Admin/Biographical History
Joel Smedley was born in 1799 to parents Joseph Smedley and Rebecca Lewis Smedley. Joel married Martha Wildman and fathered six children including Charles, Mary, John, Lewis, Anne, and Ellwood. Joel inherited the mill from his father in 1833 and expanded it by building a sorghum factory. Joel died in 1872.
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Located where the road heading from Rohrerstown to Petersburg crosses the Lancaster and Harrisburg turnpike.
April term.
Signers of Petition: Abraham Lloyd, Conrad McKline, Martin Musser, David Gochnauer, Adam Dietrich, Michael Hauser, Levi Bull, Frederick Schitz, Henry Miller, Daniel Miller, Benjamin K. Long, Andrew S. Kauffman, Philip Sprecher, A. Minnich, Benjamin B. Kauffman, John Davis, Jacob K. Landis, George Lutz, Abraham Killian, John Y. Bowers, Jacob Huber, Samuel Erb, Jacob Lutz, Jacob N. Shaub, John Eshleman, J. B. Hougendobler, Christian Miller, John K. Davis, John Stauffer, John Frank, Charles Butzer, Daniel Landis, Emanuel K. [Danhand], Henry Hornberger, Adam Baer, Jacob Carper, Jacob Hostetter Sr., Peter Minnich, David Sanders, Peter Grider, Peter Hauerstein Jr., Henry Gochnauer, Henry M. Bear, John minnich, John A. Lutz, John Stump, [signature in German], George Foltz, Francis [Delber], John L. Hershey, John Shreiner, B. F. Lutz, D. S. Royer, John Brighter, Daniel Hoffman, Jacob Stump, Henry Schreiner, George Weiler, Benjamin G. Heistand, H. M. Weiler, Christian Kauffman, Elijah B. Bull, Emanuel Hall, Joseph B. Mummah, Jacob Hostetter, Christian S. Miller, Martin Stauffer Jr., Peter Greider, Samuel Dietrich, Martin Kindig, Christian Swar, Henry L. Kauffman, Frederick Hess, Jacob B. Bimesderfer, Henry S. Metzger, Joseph Hess, Jacob Zerphey, Jacob L. Hershey, Henry M. Gochnaur, John Evans Jr., [Alled] Hull, William R. Betz, John Fulmer, Augustus Lightner, Henry S. Hershey, Peter Demmy, Andrew Metzger, Jacob Kurtz, Benjamin B. Bear, Henry L. Barr, David Ringwalt, A. Oliver Newpher, Christian Miller Jr., Jacob Baer, Jacob H. Metzger, Benjamin Eberly, Thomas Wilson, H. S. Kauffman, [signature in German], Michael Dillinger Jr., George Lithgow, Christian Musselman, Simon Minnich, Jacob G. Kreider, Joseph G. Greider, John M. Bear, Emanuel J. Minich, Jessias Little, Andrew Lutz, Samuel [Coick], Gerge Gamber, Rudolph Gamber, Peter Swar, John Stamm Sr., Henry Edgy, [Michle Vong], William Smith, Andrew Holtsworth, [signature in German], [Samuel Neese], Robert Cohick, Henry G. Imhoff, John Kauffman, Jacob Long, William Hornbarger, J. S. Heistand, Jacob Sweigart, Emanuel Schreiner, Samuel Hess Jr., Henry White, Emanuel Newcomer, Abraham Dillinger, Jacob Baker.
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Located on the Lancaster & Harrisburg turnpike, where the Petersburg & Hempfield road crosses the same.
April term.
Signers of Petition: John Hoffman, Henry K. Denham, John Kauffman, Jacob Sonon, Christian L. Hershey, John Johns, Jacob B. Landis, Christian B. Habecker, [signature in German], John L. Miller, Jacob Bassler Jr., Henry Bear.
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Signers of petition: John S. Wissler, Christian Keller, John Sheirich Sr., Abraham Killian, Henry Baker, Christian Hoffer, H. L. Frantz, Emanuel Hall, Levi Baer, Isaac Evans, Frederick Hoffman, David Ringwalt.
Bond: Isaac Evans, Levi Baer.
Receipt to keep a tavern.
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