Appraisements of real estate for inheritance tax. Some personal property appraisals are also included. Appraisals include: name of decedent; location and description of real estate; description of personal property; valuation of real estate and personal property; and assessed tax. May also include names of heirs. Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by first letter of decedent's last name. Handwritten; from 1886, handwritten on printed forms.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by first letter of decedent's last name.
Appraisements of real estate for inheritance tax. Some personal property appraisals are also included. Appraisals include: name of decedent; location and description of real estate; description of personal property; valuation of real estate and personal property; and assessed tax. May also include names of heirs. Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by first letter of decedent's last name. Handwritten; from 1886, handwritten on printed forms.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by first letter of decedent's last name.
The Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection contains documents collected by Mr. Diffenderffer. These documents are primarily from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and include letters, legal and court papers, indentures, receipts, property and probate records, and financial and military papers. The people and businesses represented include George Ross, Jasper Yeates, A. Herr Smith, Timothy Matlack, Mount Hope Furnace, and the Lancaster, Elizabethtown & Middletown Turnpike Road Company.
This collection contains various deeds and land drafts for property owned by the Galbreath family in Donegal Township, Lancaster County; tracts of land in Warren County and McKean County, Pennsylvania; lands owned by Martin Mylin in Lampeter Township; lots in the borough (now city) of Lancaster; and a letter form James Buchanan to Col. Henry Carpenter regarding property in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Land Records from Elain Ewing Holden, 1747-1848 (MG0903), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
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Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Accession Number
2001.MG0903
Other Numbers
MG-903
Other Number
MG-903
Classification
MG0903
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Transferred from Document Collection Box 30, Folder 13, 17 March 2022
Signers of petition: Michael Greider, Michael Zercher, David Hess, George Kreider Jr., Jacob Kreider, Rudolph Herr, Benjamin Bower, Jacob Burkholder, Jacob Haverstick, Rudolph Haverstick, Adam Kendig, Christian R. Herr, David Meyers, H. Mehaffy, Christian Shenk, [signature in German], Christian Barr, John Herr.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
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Signers of petition: Michael Zercher, Reuben Benedick, Jacob Kreider, Jacob Burkholder, George Kreider Jr., Levi Mentzer, Martin Hess, Michael Greider, Christian R. Herr, Christian Shenk, H. Mehaffy, Christian [Boem], David Hess, Jacob Haverstick.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
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Signers of petition: Adam Herr, William Rote, Christian Barr, Christian R. Harr, John Charles, George Kreider, Christian Kreider, John Mecartney, Micheal Greider, David Hess, Jacob Harsh, Christian Shenk, Adam Kindig, John Charles Jr., Reuben Benedick, Jacob Burkholder.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Signers of petition: Adam Kendig, Christian Barr, John Charles Jr., David Hess, Michael Greider, Christian Shenk, Henry Hess, George Kreider Jr., John Mecartney, David Meyers, John Charles, Jacob Kreider, Christian R. Herr, Tobias Stehman, John Martin.
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of petition: Christian Barr, Abraham Haverstick, Benjamin Snavely, Rudolph Myer, Reuben Benedick, Rudolph Haverstick, Christian R. Herr, Michael Zercher, John Charles, John Mecartney, Adam Kendig, Martin Hess, Abraham Charles, David Hess, George Kreider Jr., John Charles Jr., Jacob Burkholder, Christian Shenk.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.