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Deed

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Deed for selling lots in Millers Burgh

Object ID: P.04.34.05

Date Range: 1764-1771

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Deed for selling lots in Millers Burgh

Description: Deed (indenture) printed by Ephrata Cloister on vellum for John Miller, blacksmith of Lancaster Borough, and his wife Elizabeth, for use in selling lots in the "Town Called "Millers Burgh." Blank areas are filled in by hand for sale of property to Margaret Stout for 50 pounds. Initially filled in on May 1, 1764, and completed at bottom on March 8, 1765. Pink linen ribbons and red sealing wax are affixed at bottom right. The headpieces printed at top left is done in elaborate letter style using the first two words "This indenture." Each initial line is done in the distinctive illuminated manner of Ephrata Cloister, employing floral and foliate designs.; Reverse is also used as a deed for the transfer of property for Margaret Stour to Patrick McElkar, begun 1770 and completed 1771. Red linen ribbons and red sealing wax are affixed to bottom right (of reverse).; (Written by Wendall Zercher.)

Date Range: 1764-1771

Year Range From: 1764

Year Range To: 1771

Creator: Ephrata Cloister Printery

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives West

Storage Cabinet: Framed Items Bin

People: McElkar, Patrick; Miller, John; Miller, Elizabeth; Stout, Margaret

Subject: Ephrata Cloister; Deeds

Search Terms: Deeds; Ephrata Cloister

Object Name: Deed

Height (cm): 40.64

Height (ft): 1.3333333333

Height (in): 16

Width (cm): 47.625

Width (ft): 1.5625

Width (in): 18.75

Dimension Details: Generally good, darkened and soiled on sections of reverse side, sprinkled stains and light soiling overall. Bottom right corner torn off. Three vertical and two horizontal fold lines.; Framed for 2006 Printed Word Exhibit.

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2004-07-28

Condition Notes: Generally good, darkened and soiled on sections of reverse side, sprinkled stains and light soiling overall. Bottom right corner torn off. Three vertical and two horizontal fold lines.; Framed for 2006 Printed Word Exhibit.

Object ID: P.04.34.05

Archive

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Collection: George Steinman Papers

Title: George Steinman Papers, Series 1 and 2

Object ID: MG0184

Date Range: 1738-1955

2 documents

Collection: George Steinman Papers

Title: George Steinman Papers, Series 1 and 2

Description: The George Steinman Papers, Series 1 contains an album, compiled by George Steinman, with many photographs of buildings, tombstones, monuments and scenes of Lancaster city and county. Ephemera and newspaper articles are among the photographs. Represented in the album are Postlethwaite's Tavern, hotels and taverns, fire houses, the Conestoga massacre, churches, cemeteries, Ephrata Cloister, prominent citizens and their homes, Stehli Silk Mill, and schools. The four boxes contain orginal correspondence, documents, photographs and ephemera or and pertaining to the same subject matter as the album.; The George Steinman Papers, Series 2 is a collection of original correspondence, documents, photographs, and ephemera primarily compiled by George Steinman. The contents of Series 2 represent Lancaster city and county events, prominent citizens, buildings, monuments, churches, cemeteries, schools, and businesses. Most of what Steinman collected relates to 18th and 19th century Pennsylvania, highlighting Lancaster and Philadelphia. One of the key events highlighted is the Revolutionary war; with documents and images related to Philadelphia, George Washington, the Atlee family, and General Edward Hand. There are images relating to the Christiana Riot and to various buildings in early Lancaster; including but not limited to the Old Jail, the British Prison, and Postlethwaite's Tavern. Also included in the collection is currency printed by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1764, and Confederate States currency and bonds.

System of Arrangement: This collection is divided into two series:; Series 1 The Steinman Album; Series 2 Documents, Photographs, Ephemera

Date Range: 1738-1955

Year Range From: 1738

Year Range To: 1955

Date of Accumulation: ca. 1860-1920

Creator: Steinman, George Michael, 1847-1920

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Altee, John; André, John; Appel, T. Roberts; Armstrong, Elizabeth; Atlee, Samuel John; Atlee, Washington Lemuel; Atlee, William Augustus; Atlee, William Pitt; Baer, John; Baily, Francis; Bair, Daniel; Baker, James G.; Baldwin, Edith L.; Barr, Elias; Barton, Thomas; Bausman, Elizabeth; Bausman, William; Bear, Henry; Beck, Herbert Huebener; Beck, Martin; Beecher, William C.; Beissel, Conrad; Beissel, John Conrad; Bender, Henry; Bethel, Samuel; Bezellon, Martha Coombe; Bezellon, Peter; Boehm, Henry; Boyle, Philip; Breneman, Benjamin Franklin; Breneman, Gideon; Breneman, Franklin Henry; Broll, John; Brown, J. H.; Bryan, George; Buchanan, James; Buchmiller, Dulon Frank; Burkhart, Anna Margarita; Burkhart, George; Burrowes, Francis Smith; Burrowes, Thomas Henry; Burt, Nathaniel; Calder, George, Jr.; Cameron, James; Carpenter, John; Carpenter, William; Cheves, Langdon; Clay, Henry; Clemson, James; Coleman, Elizabeth; Coleman, Robert; Coleman, William; Cope, Caleb; Cope, Thomas P.; Cox, John; Crawford, James; Crowel, Mary R.; Damant, James; Davis, Benjamin Franklin; Dering, Henry; Detwiler, Thomas Craig; Diffenbaugh, Henry; Diffenderfer, Milton Hess; Diffenderffer, Frank Reid; Diller, Graybill; Donnley, Felix; Downing, Samuel; Dufresne, Samuel; Duvel, P. S.; Eberly, Michael; Edge, Walter Warren; Eichholtz, Jacob; Ellicott, Andrew; Elliot, Robert; Ellmaker, Nathaniel; Eshleman, Frank; Fahnestock, Samuel; Ferree, Philip; Fordney, Melchoir; Forney, J. A.; Fox, Cyrus; Frailey, Jacob; Franklin, George F.; Franklin, Walter; Fraser, Susan; Frazer, Reah; Fulton, Robert; Funck, John; Funk, John; Galbreath, John; Geist, M. W.; Germon, W. L.; Gill, William; Gingrich, Amos; Graff, Andreas; Grant, Hamilton; Graybill, Jacob; Groff, John M.; Groff, Sebastian; Grosh, John; Grove, Annie C.; Grubb, Daisy; Grubb, Peter; Hager, Walter C.; Haldeman, Samuel Steman; Hall, Charles; Hamilton, Andrew; Hamilton, James; Hammond, Frederick W.; Hamond, E. R.; Hand, Edward; Hand, John; Hand, Mollie; Harpel, Charlotte; Hayes, Alexander Laws; Hazen, Moses; Heinitsh, August; Heintzelman, Samuel Peter; Heister, Joseph; Henderson, Barton; Henderson, Thomas G.; Henry, John Joseph; Hensel, George Washington, Jr.; Hensel, William Uhler; Herr, Christian; Herr, Hans; Herr, Rudy; Hews, George H.; Hoffnagle, Peter; Hood, Alexander H.; Hostetter, Albert Keller; Hughes, Edward; Hutter, Christian; Jacobs, Cyrus; Jenkins, David; Jenkins, William; Kevinski, John B.; King, George H.; Kirkpatrick, William; Konigmacher, Joseph; Kroome, Hiram; Krug, George; Kuhn, Simon; Kuhn, Simon Adam; Landis, David Bachman; Landis, David H.; Landis, Harry; Landis, Jacob; Light, John B.; Lightner, Michael; Lincoln, Abraham; Lippold, John W.; Loeb, Jacob; Long, Henry Grimler; Long, Isaac; Lowery, Alexander; Lowery, Lazarus; Ludlow, Robert Fulton; Magee, David Francis; Marshall, Christopher; Marshall, John; Martin, C. H.; Mason, S.; Mathiot, John; Matlack, Timothy; Mayer, Christian B.; McCaskey, John Piersol "Jack"; McClain, Francis Bernard; McClellan, George Brinton; McCormick, D. R.; McFarquahr, Colin; McGrann, Bernard John; Melsheimmer, Frederick Valentine; Metzger, Samuel H.; Mifflin, Thomas; Miller, Dave "Devil"; Miller, John; Miller, Susanna; Mishler, Benjamin; Montgomery, John R.; Montgomery, William; Morton, William Augustus; Mulhatten, Barney; Musser, Yost; Myers, Albert; Mylin, Martin; Neff, John; Nevin, John D.; North, Hugh McAlister; Old, James; Parks, Jake; Pastor, John; Peiper, William L.; Penn, William; Pitt, William; Porter, Andrew; Porter, George B.; Pyle, Howard; Ramsey, David; Raub, Galen John Peoples; Reigart, Adam; Reigart, Emanuel C.; Reilly, Mary Gertrude Costigan; Reinmansnyder, Helen; Reynolds, George Nelson; Reynolds, John Fulton; Reynolds, William; Rogers, Milton C.; Rose, Frederick; Ross, George; Ross, Patton; Sauber, Charles Alvin; Sener, Samuel Miller; Seyfert, Augustus G.; Shober, Emanuel; Shreiner, Philip; Slaymaker, Henry; Slaymaker, Henry Edwin; Slaymaker, L.; Slaymaker, William; Sloane, S.; Slough, Elizabeth; Smith, Charles; Snavely, Harry H.; Stahr, John Summers; Stambauch, Samuel; Stauffer, David McNeely; Stedman, Alexander; Steinman, George Michael; Stevens, Thaddeus; Stiegel, Henry William; Strong Wolf, Chief; Summy, Levi; Sutter, John Augustus; Tener, John C.; Thornburg, Robert; Todd, Charles; Tomlinson, George; Urban, John; Vogan, John; Washington, George; Webb, James; West, Benjamin; Wharton, Thomas; Whiteside, John; Wiley, William; Williamson, Henry Stackhouse; Willson, George Bolivar; Willson, John; Winover, Peter; Wise, Charles; Wise, John; Witmer, Abraham; Witmer, David; Witmer, Esther Elizabeth; Worner, William Frederic; Wright, James; Wright, John; Yeates, Catharine; Yeates, Jasper; Zahm, Godfried; Zahm, Mathias; Zahm, Samuel H.; Zantzinger, Paul; Zehmer, Anthony; Zinzendorf, Nicholaus

Subjects: Ephemera; Photographs; Scrapbooks

Search Terms: Abbeville (Historic estate); Abbeville Mill; Advent Lutheran Church; Albright's Transportation Depot; All Saints Episcopal Church; American Hose Company; Balloons; Bangor Episcopal Church; Berks County Historical Society; Binkley's Bridge; Bird-In-Hand Friends Meetinghouse; Boehm's Chapel; Buch Tavern; Buchanan Park; Caledonia Furnace; Carpenter's Union Church; Cat Tavern; Cemeteries; Central Cigar Store; Chalices; Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church; Christ Lutheran Church; Christian Herr House; Christiana Resistance; Churches; Clare Point Stock Farm; Columbia - Wrightsville Bridge; Columbia Friends Meetinghouse; Conestoga Furnace; Conestoga Glue Factory; Conestoga Navigation Company; Conestoga wagon; Cosgrove's Tavern; County House; Courthouses; Covered bridges; Disasters; Donegal Presbyterian Church; Downing's Mill; Eagle Hotel; Eden Iron Works; Edge Tool Forge; Elizabeth Furnace; Emmanuel Lutheran Church; Engleside, Lancaster Twp.; Ephemera; Ephrata Cloister; Ephrata Mountain Springs Hotel; Exchange Hotel; Feagleyville; Federal Hall; Finding aids; Fire departments; Fires; First National Store; First Presbyterian Church, Lancaster; First Reformed Church, Lancaster; Fites Eddy Hotel; Fountain Inn; Franklin and Marshall College; Franklin College; Franklin House; Fulton Cotton Mill; General Sutter Inn; Golden Swan Hotel; Grace Lutheran Church; Graeff's Landing; Grape Tavern; Gravestones; Graveyards; Green Cottage; Grubb Mansion; Halfway House; Hans Herr House; Hardwicke; Harmony Hall; Heinitsh Drug Store; Historical markers; Hope Episcopal Church; Hopewell Forge; Hotels; Humane Fire Company; Humes Woolen Mill; Hutter's Folly; Indian Queen Tavern; Indigenous peoples; J. B. Distillery; Keener's Mill; Kepler Lodge; Krug House; Lafayette Hill; Lamb Tavern; Lamparter's Row; Lancaster Academy; Lancaster County Courthouse; Lancaster County Historical Society; Lancaster County National Bank; Lancaster County Prison; Lancaster Curling Club; Lancaster Fencibles; Lancaster Moravian Church; Landisville Mennonite Meetinghouse; Leacock Presbyterian Church; Linden Hall; Lititz Moravian Church; Manuscript groups; Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company; Markets; Martic Forge, Martic Twp.; Martin Meylin's Gunshop; Masonic halls; Masonic lodges; Massasoit Hall; Mechanics Library; Mellinger Mennonite Church; Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church; Millersville Academy; Millersville State Normal School; Millersville University; Mills; Mischler's Exchange; Mishler's Beer Garden; Montgomery House; Monuments; Moss Cigar Factory; Mount Bethel Mansion; Mount Hope Furnace; Native Americans; Odd Fellows Hall; Old City Hall; Old Welsh Graveyard; Paper mills; Parish houses; Paxton Boys; Penn Square; Pennsbury Manor; Pennsylvania Railroad; Pequea Presbyterian Church; Petroglyphs; Photographs; Plough Tavern; Poole Forge; Postlethwaite's Tavern; Powder houses; Practical Farmer Hotel; Ranck's Mill; Reigart's Landing; Reigart's Old Wine Store; Relay Hotel; Revolutionary War; Rock Ford; Ruth's Fine Groceries; Sadsbury Friends Meetinghouse; Safe Harbor Rolling Mill; Schools; Scrapbooks; Shiffler Fire Company; Ship Tavern; Shippen School; Sign of the Bull Tavern; Sign of the Hat Tavern; Sorrel Horse Hotel; St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church; St. James Episcopal Church; St. John's Episcopal Church; St. John's Lutheran Church; St. John's United Church of Christ; St. Mary's Catholic Church; St. Michael's Lutheran Church; St. Paul's United Church of Christ; St. Peter's Catholic Church; Stamps; Stehli Silk Mill; Stock certificates; Strasburg Academy; Strasburg Mennonite Cemetery; Strasburg Methodist Episcopal Church; Sunflower Inn; Swamp Church; Swan Hotel; Tavern signs; Taverns; Ten Hour House; Three Crowns Tavern; Trinity Lutheran Church; Union Bethel Church; Union Fire Company; Union Hotel; Valley Forge, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Vermont Historical Society; Voganville Hotel; Wabank House; Washington Hotel; Washington Memorial Chapel; Waterloo Tavern; Waterworks; Watt and Shand; Weaverland Mennonite Church; Wheatland; White Horse Hotel; White Swan Hotel; William Pitt Tavern; Windsor Forge; Witmer's Bridge; Witness Tree; Woodward Hill Cemetery; F. W. Woolworth Co.; York Furnace; Young Men's Christian Association; Zion Lutheran Church

Extent: 1 scrapbook, 4 boxes, 112 folders, 3.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0184

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Copies: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).; "Mr. Geo. Steinman who started this collection of pictures. This book was presented to the Lanc. Co. Historical Society after his death by Mr. Geo. S. Franklin."; John M. Gibson is recorded as the donor, 1968, in LancasterHistory's accession records.; LancasterHistory is committed to preserving and providing access to materials chronicling Lancaster County's heritage. As a historical resource, this document reflects the racial prejudices and actions of the era. In order to maintain the historical integrity and context of collection items, LancasterHistory does not censor historical documents or edit language, titles, or organization names when transcribing original content.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-184

Classification: MG0184

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Series 1 processed and finding aid prepared PK and MSH, 2008. Series 2 finding aid prepared by JE, 2018. Added to database 20 July 2021.; Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # C980002119, 2021-2024.

Documents

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Introduction to the law of tenures

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21721

Author: Wright, Martin,

Edition: The third edition.

Date of Publication: 1768.

Call Number: Book 653 1768

Responsibility: by Sir Martin Wright ...

Author: Wright, Martin,

Edition: The third edition.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers; for J. Nourse ...,

Date of Publication: 1768.

Physical Description: iv, 133, 135-222, [9] p. ; 24 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 653 as assigned by Yeates.; Signatures: [A]Â² B-Oâ¸ Pâ¸( -Pâ¸) Qâ´.; Number 134 omitted in pagination, but text is continuous.; T.p. verso, final p. blank.; Includes bibliographical references.; ESTC (RLIN)

Subjects: Land tenure - England.; Land tenure; England.; Full blind-tooled leather (Bindind); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding); Armorial bookplates (Provenance)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 653 1768

Probate

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Collection: Renunciations

Title: Renunciations

Object ID: Ren 1890 F006

Date Range: 1890

Collection: Renunciations

Title: Renunciations

Description: Renunciations are papers filed in the Orphans' Court by executors of an estate who do not wish to administer that estate. They show the name of the decedent, the decedent's place of residence, the name of the person renouncing administration, the name of the replacement administrator to be appointed, and date. The relationship between the decedent, the executor, and the administrator is usually shown. Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.

System of Arrangement: Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.

Date Range: 1890

Date of Accumulation: 1762-1820, 1821-1842, 1880-1906

Year: 1890

Creator: Register of Wills

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Container: Box 0015

People: Bingaman, Thomas; Bingaman, Sophia; Bingaman, James; Urich, George

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Renunciation; Ephrata, Ephrata Twp.

Place: Ephrata, Ephrata Twp.

Extent: 12 cubic feet

Object Name: Probate

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: Ren 1890 F006

Box Number: 015

Associated Material: Administrators Accounts; Miscellaneous Orphans' Court Papers

Additional Notes: Renouncer: Bingaman, Sophia.; Administrators: Bingaman, James; Urich, George.; 1 item, 1 piece

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restricted use of original. A photocopy will be made for patron use.

Classification: RG 03-00 0115

Description Level: Item

Probate

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Collection: Renunciations

Title: Renunciations

Object ID: Ren 1890 F050

Date Range: 1890

Collection: Renunciations

Title: Renunciations

Description: Renunciations are papers filed in the Orphans' Court by executors of an estate who do not wish to administer that estate. They show the name of the decedent, the decedent's place of residence, the name of the person renouncing administration, the name of the replacement administrator to be appointed, and date. The relationship between the decedent, the executor, and the administrator is usually shown. Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.

System of Arrangement: Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.

Date Range: 1890

Date of Accumulation: 1762-1820, 1821-1842, 1880-1906

Year: 1890

Creator: Register of Wills

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Container: Box 0015

People: Jensen, Christian; Schulze, Eleonore; Schulze, Anna; Kinports, Martin

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Renunciation; Ephrata, Ephrata Twp.

Place: Ephrata, Ephrata Twp.

Extent: 12 cubic feet

Object Name: Probate

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: Ren 1890 F050

Box Number: 015

Associated Material: Administrators Accounts; Miscellaneous Orphans' Court Papers

Additional Notes: Renouncers: Schulze, Eleonore; Schulze, Anna;; Administrator: Kinports, Martin.; 1 item, 1 piece

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restricted use of original. A photocopy will be made for patron use.

Classification: RG 03-00 0115

Description Level: Item

Fraktur

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Andrew Bare Fraktur

Object ID: P.80.136

Date Range: c. 1768

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Andrew Bare Fraktur

Description: Fraktur on laid paper in polychrome lettering. Within a cross-hatched border is a birth record for Andrew Bare done in five lines of German above a heart containing eleven lines of text. Decorated with vining flowers at top and large flowers around heart.; Accompanying translation at right was written and signed by J. Watson Ellmaker (1840-1921), but undated. It states that the text within the heart is a baptismal prayer for Andrew Bare, born March 9, 1768, and gives an English translation.; Fraktur was originally purchased in a vertical frame with the translation below it, both glued to the same backing. Both pieces were conserved, matted and reframed side-by-side by Elizabeth C. Hollyday, April 1981. See NOTES

Date Range: c. 1768

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 5

Storage Cabinet: Unit 43

Storage Shelf: Shelf 3

Storage Drawer: Bin 2-F

People: Bare, Andrew

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subject: Fraktur art; Frakturs (Documents)

Search Terms: Fraktur; Birth records

Object Name: Fraktur

Oither Names: Birth Record

Material: Paper, Ink

Height (in): 9.625

Width (in): 7.375

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2016-11-02

Condition Notes: Fraktur has significant damage. Multiple losses, staining overall and mended tears and creases.; Translation paper has several light brown stains, esp. at top.; Conserved and reframed by Elizabeth C. Hollyday, April 1981. Edges of fraktur appear to be lifting somewhat. There still remain dark, hazy areas over much of surface.

Object ID: P.80.136

Notes: Published in Fraktur: Folk Art and Family, Russel & Corinne Earnest, 1999, p. 30.; Noted genealogist Jane Evans Best wrote a letter 9/27/84 correcting the genealogical info written by Ellmaker. She states that Andreas was not the father of noted publisher John Bear. This Andrew Bear was born 2/9/1768 and died 6/22/1797. He was baptized June 12, 1768 at Zeltenreich Reformed Church in Earl Twp. Best suggests it may have been the schoolmaster of the nearly Laurel Hill school who created this fraktur. The school was mentioned in a deed dated July 22, 1765 and was one of the earliest on record in Lancaster Co.; Also, Andrew Bear Jr. was not married to Mary Showers, but was married 12/22/1790 at New Holland Lutheran Church to Susanna Mayer, daughter of Abraham Mayer of Leacock Twp. The Bears had two children, John b. 7/31/1791 and Christina, born after 1792. The two children were mentioned in their grandfather Andrew's will dated 9/21/1805.

Place of Origin: Lancaster County

Credit: Gift of the James Hale Steinman Foundation, Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: P.80.136

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Fraktur

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: P.94.21.2

Date Range: 1767

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Large fraktur is both a Vorschrift & Taufschein, done on laid paper, for Johan Philip Grunewalt, born June 17, 1756, in Cocalico Twp. Mounted in modern red-painted frame with window mat. Has watermark of a shield with a fleur-de-lys at top and "GR" at bottom.; Large religious text at top begins: "Dass walt der Trey Einige Ewige un Endliche und Allmachtige gott der gott, Abraham der gott, Isaac der gott, Jacob der heylige In Israel Auser welche..." followed by 2 more lines of in smaller font, then13 lines of German script filling center of fraktur. Below this is a line of large fraktur style alphabet, then numerals, and finally a line of German script.; At bottom is the taufschein section noting Johan's birth and baptism. German script at bottom right Alan Keyser identifies as simply completing the previous sentence due to running out of space. It is "auffer stehung(en)" which ends the thought of eine seelige... "toward a blessed after-life" (or resurrection). Following the mention of holy baptism are sponsors names, Jorg Weber and his wife Ann Eliza. No date of baptism.; Around entire fraktur is a 3-line border of red, yellow and blue, with a religious text dated 1767 between red & yellow lines. Decoration at top, within border, are simple leafy vines with stylized tulips of red, yellow, green and black.; Grunewalt or Greenawalt.

Provenance: Unknown

Date Range: 1767

Made By: GR

Last Owner: Grunewalt, Johan Philip, 1756-1834

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 5

Storage Cabinet: Unit 43

Storage Shelf: Shelf 3

Storage Drawer: Bin 4

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subject: Fraktur art; Frakturs (Documents); Baptismal records; Vorschrift

Search Terms: Baptismal records; Fraktur; Taufscheins; Vorschrift

Object Name: Fraktur

Material: Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Related Publications: Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin Co., p. 300 ff.

Height (in): 19

Width (in): 23.875

Dimension Details: Unframed dimensions. Frame is 25" x 31"

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2016-08-04

Condition Notes: Damp stains mostly at top border and some foxing across surface. Significant damage to paper from multiple tape repairs at fold lines. (Conserved in 1996 by Marilyn Kemp Weidner of Phila. and placed in a sealed Mylar package on acid-free corrugated board).

Object ID: P.94.21.2

Notes: Recipient of Vorschrift, John Philip Greenawalt, was born in Cocalico Twp. to parents Philip Lorentz and Maria (or Margaret?) (Foesser) Greenawalt. He apparently settled in Ephrata where he was a farmer and a hotel keeper.; Son John Philip served as first lieutenant in the Rev. War (and his father served as a colonel with Washington at Brandywine, Germantown, Trenton, Princeton, etc.). The Dauphin Co. Biog. Encyclopedia, p. 300, states Philip became a hotel keeper at Lebanon after the war. He apparently left Cocalico Twp. no later than 1763.

Place of Origin: Cocalico Twp.

Usage: Grunewalt, Johan Philip, 1756-1834

Credit: Heritage Center Collection, gift of James Hale Steinman Foundation

Accession Number: P.94.21.

Probate

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Collection: Renunciations

Title: Renunciations

Object ID: Ren 1894 F108

Date Range: 1894

Collection: Renunciations

Title: Renunciations

Description: Renunciations are papers filed in the Orphans' Court by executors of an estate who do not wish to administer that estate. They show the name of the decedent, the decedent's place of residence, the name of the person renouncing administration, the name of the replacement administrator to be appointed, and date. The relationship between the decedent, the executor, and the administrator is usually shown. Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.

System of Arrangement: Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.

Date Range: 1894

Date of Accumulation: 1762-1820, 1821-1842, 1880-1906

Year: 1894

Creator: Register of Wills

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Container: Box 0017

People: Mellinger, Jacob; Mellinger, Lillie D.; Fetter, Phares S.

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Renunciation; Ephrata Twp.

Place: Ephrata Twp.

Extent: 12 cubic feet

Object Name: Probate

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: Ren 1894 F108

Box Number: 017

Associated Material: Administrators Accounts; Miscellaneous Orphans' Court Papers

Additional Notes: Renouncer: Mellinger, Lillie D.; Administrator: Fetter, Phares S.; 1 item, 1 piece

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restricted use of original. A photocopy will be made for patron use.

Classification: RG 03-00 0115

Description Level: Item

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Deed

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Archive

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Introduction to the law of tenures

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Probate

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/e5bb7cd4-e3d6-47a4-830f-546602736100

Probate

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/c7af5101-793a-4de1-8757-507530757743

Fraktur

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2df546ce-8f3a-46c0-bc2e-116739209431

Images

Fraktur

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/30ca3920-e812-4aab-a527-279404245590

Probate

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/53b772a6-6be7-435e-b39b-233595748445