Letter from James Buchanan to Elliott Eskridge Lane
Description
Letter from James Buchanan to Eskridge Lane dealing with business matters; he will leave Hornby for Richmond Hill, the seat of William Brown, MP and partner in Brown, Shipley & Co; Harriet will stay there to be in the wedding of Brown’s grandson; the bride’s mother is a sister of James Coleman; and abusive articles supposedly from the “Government Organ at Washington” hampering his negotiations. Hornby Castle, Yorkshire.
James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,
https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm
Related Item Notes
James Buchanan Family Papers
MG-96 James Buchanan Collection
Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm
Photograph collections
Curatorial collections
Wheatland Mansion
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May 2020 PastPerfect Conversion
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Accession Number
JBMS1995.190
Other Number
JBFP Part 1, Series 1, Subseries 1, Folder 65
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Custodial History
The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.
Petition not granted until a petition is filed with Clerk of Court.
Signers of Petition: David Blemsinger, Abraham Myers, Jacob Spangler, John Ream, Martin Fry, R. Ream, Jacob Hibshman, John Fry, John Conrad, John Hacker, [Frederick Ream], Jacob Rettig, Abraham Landis, Philip Bushong, Daniel Wise, William Musser.
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Signers of Petition: Jacob Schirk, Andrew Shimp, Michael Kline Jr., Curtis Fry, John Brison, Richard Davis, George Horting, J. S. Heitler, Joseph Konigmacher, Jacob Reddig Jr., R. R. Heitler, Peter Reidenbach, Joseph Sherk, Joseph Uhrich, Jeremiah Bauman, [signature in German], Benjamin Uhrich.
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Located on the Downingtown, Ephrata, and Harrisburg turnpike road.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: R. R. Heitler, Allan Carpenter, David Bauman, Cristein Sheaffer, John Keller, H. Hostetter, W. J. Hibshman, John Erb, George Keller, Jacob Hibshman, Jacob Konigmacher, [signature in German], Samuel Enck.
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Signers of Petition: R. R. Heitler, M. J. Hibshman, J. B. Amweg, John Gross, William Myers, R. Ream, Ephraim Shober, [signature in German], Jacob Reddig, William Musser, George Horting, Henry Hibshman.
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