Information on almost 180,000 individuals mentioned in abstracts of baptisms, births, marriages, and deaths from the registers of more than fifty Pennsylvania churches in Adams, Berks, and Lancaster counties. The information was extracted from microfilm records of transcriptions of the original records. You will find: the name of every person listed in the record, their relationship to the key person, their role in the event, date and place of the event, their residence, volume and page of the original record.
Harrisburg, PA (R.D. 4, Box 925, Harrisburg 17112)
Publisher
O.H. Stroh,
Date of Publication
c1980-c1984.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes indexes.
v. 1 (File 11) includes: Amityville Lutheran Church cemetery, Amity Township, Berks County (p. 47 - 50); Bauerman's Church cemetery, Wayne Township, Dauphin County (p. 26); Belleview United Brethren Church cemetery, North Annville Township, Lebanon Count y.; Bern Church cemetery, Berks County (p. 1 - 6); Bernville cemetery, Berks County (p. 7 - 11); Bindnagle graveyard, North Londonderry Township, Lebanon County (p. 32 - 35); Chambers Hill cemetery, Swatara Township, Dauphin County (p. 36 - 37); Church of the Brethren (Dunkard) cemetery, Middle Paxton Township, Dauphin County (p. 50 - 54); Dunkard cemetery, Derry Township, Dauphin County (p. 36); Ebersole farm graveyard, South Hanover Township. Dauphin County (p. 30); Ephrata community graveyard, Ephrata Borough (p. 43 - 47); Fetterhoff Church cemetery, Halifax Township, Dauphin County (p. 24 - 25); Fox cemetery, Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County (p. 62 - 64); Greiner farm cemetery, Lower Swatara Township, Dauphin County (p. 42); Hoover farm cemetery, Derry Township, Dauphin County (p. 35).
v. 2 (File 11) includes: Bashore family cemetery, Bethel Township, Berks County (p. 67); Baumgardner cemetery, West Hanover Township, Dauphin County (p. 47); Bittenbender cemetery, Hereford Township, Berks County (p. 45); Church of God cemetery, Halifax Township, Dauphin County (p. 47); Crum's cemetery, Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County (p. 52); Enders cemetery, Jackson Township, Dauphin County (p. 51); Esterton cemetery, Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County (p. 39); Fisherville cemetery, Jackson Township, Dauphin County (p. 53); Huff cemetery, Hereford Township, Berks County (p. 46); Huff's Union Church, Hereford Township, Berks County (p. 43); Klinger's cemetery, Lykens Township, Dauphin County (p. 91); Masteller cemetery, Hereford Township, Berks County (p. 46); Mount Laurel Church of God cemetery, Piketown, Dauphin County (p. 35); Muddy Creek Union cemetery, East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County (p. 61); Pleasant Hill cemetery, West Donegal Township, Lancaster County (p. 64); Rutt graveyard, West Donegal Township, Lancaster County (p. 64); St. John's (Host's) Reformed Church, Tulpehocken Township, Berks County (p. 1).
Transcribed from the records of the Surveyor General's and Proprietaries secretary's offices, by John Hughes, recorder of warrants and surveys under the act of assembly, July 7, 1759 - with a guide to the books and index, an historical background and a copy of the act. Compiled byCharles F. Hughes, Jr. and Thomas E. Slatter
Physical Description
2 reels; 35 mm.
Notes
Lancaster County materials contained in v. 2, 5, 7, 8.
Index to this title is R 929.34 W423.
Contents
v. 1 Contains the surveys of "OLD RIGHTS" for the city and county of Philadelphia principally, with scattered surveys for Bucks and Chester Counties; entries correspond to the numbering and alphabetical arrangement in the Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, v. II and III.; surveys are presented for only seven letters of the alphabet - F-H and P-S -- v. 2 Consists of two sections; Philadelphia City and Philadelphia City new returns;both treat principally with the city; there are scattered returns for the counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester; pages 224-78 contain Lancaster County new returns, letters A and B -- v. 3 General returns and papers of the Society of Free Traders; contains entries for the city and counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Kent, and Newcastle for the period 1682-1698; there is no organized arrangement within the book -- v. 4 The copies of the Surveyor General's returns, 1700; contains entries for the city and counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Kent and Newcastle, with its own index; entries cover the period 1700-1720.
v.5 The copies of the Surveyor General's returns for October 20, 1733; contains entries for the city and counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Kent, Lancaster, Newcastle and Sussex -- v. 6 Philadelphia County 1684-1713 and Bucks County new returns 1734-58; first section contains returns for Philadelphia County for the stated period; pages 84-88 list owners of property surveyed by David Powell; second section contains returns for Bucks County for the stated period -- v. 7 General returns, 1735-41; contains entries for the city of Philadelphia and the counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Kent, Lancaster, Newcastle, and Sussex -- v. 8 General returns, 1752-1759; contains entries for the city and county of Philadelphia, counties of Berks, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Kent, Lancaster, Newcastle, Northampton and York, and for towns of Carlisle, Easton, Reading, and Yorktown; pages 35 through 48 are missing; -- v. 9 Philadelphia County, new returns, 1734-1758; contains entries for the letters B to S; entries are arranged alphabetically by the first letter of surname and numerically within each letter.
