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Administrators' accounts

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13490
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Orphans' Court (Lancaster County)
Call Number
RG 04-00 0150, Archives West 1
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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Orphans' Court (Lancaster County)
Physical Description
443 boxes.
Arrangement of Material
Arranged alphabetically by decedent and then chronologically by date filed.
Notes
Administrators' Accounts may be searched in the PastPerfect database and at LancasterHistory.org.
From 1729-1775, administrators' accounts were filed with the estate inventories. However, there are some accounts in this collection that date 1739-1775 and 1902-1912.
Finding aid in the repository: Local government records.
Summary
These are accounts filed by fiduciaries showing court term and case number; names of decedent, fiduciary, attorney, and judge; assets; receipts and expenditures; balance on hand; dates; amounts; totals; affidavit of fiduciary; dates filed and confirmed by court; and volume and page of recording in Account Book.
Rights
May not be photocopied.
Subjects
Decedents' estates - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Additional Corporate Author
Lancaster County (Pa.) Orphans' Court.
Location
Lancaster History Archive - Government Record
Call Number
RG 04-00 0150, Archives West 1
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African American entrepreneurs in Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2131
Author
Hopkins, Leroy T.
Date of Publication
2022.
  1 website  
Responsibility
Leroy T. Hopkins, Ph.D.
Author
Hopkins, Leroy T.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, PA
Publisher
LancasterHistory,
Date of Publication
2022.
Physical Description
221-243
Series
Journal of Lancaster County's Historical Society, vol. 122, no. 3 (Sept. 2022)
Subjects
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster (Pa.)
African American business enterprises
Businesspeople
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The ambitions of William Henry

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Author
Gordon, Scott Paul.
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Scott Paul Gordon.
Author
Gordon, Scott Paul.
Physical Description
p. 254-284.
Notes
This record provides a link to this resource on the publisher's official online repository.
Summary
HISTORIANS HAVE TRAPPED William Henry of Lancaster (1729–86) in the identity of gunsmith. Though meant as a compliment— most accounts portray Henry as the most important gunsmith in the "rifle-making hub of colonial America," Lancaster County— - this confinement is ironic, since Henry escaped this occupation as soon as he was able. The term gunsmith, then as now, could describe men who repaired guns, who produced specialized gun parts (such as barrels or locks), who created an entire gun from scratch (lock, stock, and barrel), or who ran a factory that employed other men. Henry seems not to have engaged in any of these activities after 1760. By the last decade of his life, Henry had achieved a level of financial security (and apparently embodied the virtuous independence thought to derive from it) that led his peers to entrust him with positions of responsibility and that left Henry free to accept them. He served first in local and state governments and was later appointed an administrator and financier for the Continental army and elected twice to the Continental Congress. We have failed to register the shape of his career, the magnitude of his transformation; instead, historians have imagined that during all these varied activities, Henry continued to work as a gunsmith. Indeed, the belief that Henry "was engaged in the manufacture of firearms for over thirty years," that he produced the rifles or muskets carried by soldiers from the French and Indian War through the Revolution, has been central to stories about him. [abstract]
Subjects
Henry, William, - 1729-1786.
Simon, Joseph, - 1712-1804.
Gunsmiths - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Contained In
The Pennsylvania Magazine orf History and Biography, v. 136, no. 3.Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 HSP v. 136, no.3.
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Amish quilts of Lancaster County

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Author
Herr, Patricia T.,
Date of Publication
c2004.
Call Number
746.46 H564a
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Patricia T. Herr.
ISBN
0764320173 (Paperback)
Author
Herr, Patricia T.,
Place of Publication
Atglen, PA
Publisher
Schiffer Pub. Ltd.,
Date of Publication
c2004.
Physical Description
189 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Subjects
Amish quilts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
746.46 H564a
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Andes Foundry [cap pistols] - Information file

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Call Number
Information file - Andes Foundry [cap pistols]
  1 website  
Notes
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.
Summary
Inside this file is one essay written by William D. Andes in September for 1978. The introduction says, "This paper is concerned with the operations of the Andes Foundry Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania an important manufacturer of paper caps and toy pistols thought not alone in the field."
Subjects
Andes Foundry Company (Lancaster, Pa.)
Toy guns - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Information File
Call Number
Information file - Andes Foundry [cap pistols]
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An essay on the origin of the Linnaean society of Lancaster city and county, its objects and progress. Read before the association on its 4th anniversary, at the Athenaeum rooms, February 24th, 1866

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Author
Rathvon, Simon S.,
Date of Publication
1866.
Call Number
090 L244p 1866
  1 website  
Responsibility
By S.S. Rathvon. To which are appended its charter, and lists of its officers, its members, and its correspondents.
Author
Rathvon, Simon S.,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Pearsol & Geist, printers,
Date of Publication
1866.
Physical Description
18 p. 23 cm.
Notes
Published by request and by authority of the Society.
Subjects
Linnaean society of Lancaster city and county, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
090 L244p 1866
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The awakening and the early progress of the Pequea, Conestoga and other Susquehanna Valley settlements : as shown by official letters, etc., of the time

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Author
Landis, David M.
Date of Publication
1921.
the bond. The people at Lancaster say we can do no harm. l have sent a line to Blunston to discharge Hendrick's goods. A Hamilton" (No. 3206) �"Phil. 16th of 2d mo. 1737. John Taylor: The proprietor has come to a resolution to settle about ten thousand acres of Conestogoe Manor and would like to speak
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Responsibility
by David M. Landis.
Author
Landis, David M.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1921.
Physical Description
5-16 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 1
Subjects
Land settlement - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Taylor papers.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 25, number 1 (1921), p. 5-16Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.25
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Documents

vol25no1pp5_16_554571.pdf

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Bamford zinc mine, Lancaster County, Pa

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Author
Mosier, McHenry
Date of Publication
1948.
  1 website  
Responsibility
McHenry Mosier
Author
Mosier, McHenry
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
US Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines
Date of Publication
1948.
Subjects
Mine examination - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Zinc mines and mining - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Electronic Resources
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Bethania Palladium - Information file

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Call Number
Information file - Bethania Palladium
  1 website  
Notes
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.
Contents
There are a couple facsimilie copies of the Bethania Palladium in this file.
Subjects
Newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Information File
Call Number
Information file - Bethania Palladium
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A bibliography of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, 1745-1912

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Author
Bausman, Lottie M.
Date of Publication
[1917?]
Call Number
010 L245
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Lottie M. Bausman.
Author
Bausman, Lottie M.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Printed by Patterson & White company
Date of Publication
[1917?]
Physical Description
iv, 460 p. 26 cm.
Series
Publications of the Pennsylvania federation of historical societies
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Bibliography.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
010 L245
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