This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners' Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.
System of Arrangement
The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.
Old Doneglal, with its gambrel roof, is lcoated near Mt. Joy, a town northeast of Lancaster. Many people of the eighteenth century are buried in its graveyard. In the front fo the church, not seen on this photograph is the Witness Tree under which the minister and the congregation swore allegiance to the American cause in the Revolution.
