The Washington Fire Company Records contain the eleven articles and a list of members for the Washington Fire Company of Lancaster in 1820, a minute book for 1857-1879, constitution and by-laws printed in 1857, and an undated account sheet.
Admin/Biographical History
The Washington Fire Company was organized in 1820 at the home of John Landis. (Ellis and Evans, History of Lancaster County, pp. 389-390)
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Signers of petition: Hanson Jacobs, Coleman J. Bull, Jacob Jameson, Lot Rogers, E. D. White, Cyrus H. Jacobs, Edward Davies, David Jenkins, William Witman, M. Bickham, E. Rogers, Francis Gillespie.
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Signers of Petition: John McCamant, Samuel M. Krauser, William Evans, John Gordon, Cyrus H. Jacobs, Lot Rogers, M. Bickman, Hanson B. Jacobs, Jacob Shirk, G. Bickham, Thomas J. McMichael, Evan Rogers, James P. Davies, James H. Jacobs.
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Signers of petition: Hanson B. Jacobs, M. Bickham, Lot Rogers, Thomas Edwards, James P. Davies, Evan Rogers, Edward Davies, David Jenkins, Cyrus H. Jacobs, John Yohn, Edward Davies, Francis Gillespie, John Bechard, Jacob Jimeson.
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Signers of petition: M. Bickham, E. D. White, B. F. [Baun], Evan Rogers, Jacob Jameson, Francis Gillespie, William Witman, Cyrus H. Jacobs, Coleman J. [Ball], David Jenkins, Lot Rogers, George Rigg, James Evans, Hanson B. Jacobs.
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Located on the Lancaster and New Holland turnpike, at the junction of road leading from Hinkletown with the turnpike.
Petition granted.
January term.
Signers of petition: John Graybill, Abraham Groff, Jacob Brubaker, Samuel Clark, John W. Groff, John Good, Levi Good, Christian Good, Michael Good, Ephraim Bare, David Bender, James Vogan.
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Signers of petition: Lot Rogers, Hanson R. Jacobs, Abraham Lincoln, Edward Haines, Hiram Evans, Cyrus H. Jacobs, Thomas M. Michael, Evan Rogers, [unknown signature], Andrew Robeson, John Bechard, John Planky, John Tripple.
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Signers of Petition: Lot Rogers, Hanson B. Jacobs, William Witman, Martin C. Weaver, Jacob Jameson, John Zell, S. G. Bickham, E. D. White, Cyrus H. Jacobs, B. F. Bunn, John Ringwalt, Andrew Robeson, John Plank, Joseph Spotts.
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Signers of petition: Hanson B. Jacobs, William Witman, Edward Davies, Evan Rogers, Abraham Lincoln, James McCaa, James P. Davies, Lot Rogers, M. Bickman, Edward Davies, David Jenkins, Robert Jenkins, John Bechard, Cyrus H. Jacobs.
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