This collection contains patents issued to inventors in Lancaster County. The patents have the technical information about the invention and also drawings and/or blueprints. Some of the patents are for a horse hay rake, pinions, a railroad car brake, and improvements in threshing machines, balancing mill stones, kitchen slicing utensils and a still. Two of the documents are signed by Secretary of State Henry Clay and President Andrew Jackson.
Signers of petition: Christian B. Hess, George Raub Sr., Martin Mylin, Benjamin Herr, John B. Musser, Martin Andrews, Elias Herr, Levi Huber, David Huber, Christian Herr Jr., John C. Baldwin, Samuel Gardner, Joseph Gochenour, [ ] Miller Jr.
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Signers of petition: A. Sides, M. H. Kreider, David Fulmer, Anthony W. Baldwin, Peter Weaver, Martin Andrews, Rudolph Lefever, Samuel Weaver, John M. Miller, Abraham Leman, H. Miller, John Rohrer, Henry Martin, Christian Hess, Jacob Miller, Christian B. Herr.
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Signers of petition: [ ] Kreider, John Eberly, Samuel Weaver, Anthony W. Baldwin, David Weaver, Alpheus Carpenter, David Erb, Martin Augustin, John M. Miller, Henry Miller, [ ] Miller, Andrew Bowermaster, John L. Riley, John McCallister, Jacob A. Warner, Peter Bowermaster.
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Signers of Petition: Andrew Mehaffey, Abraham B. Mylin, Joseph Breneman, Jacob Hess, C. Brenneman, [George Boreman], Daniel Fulton, Jacob Grafft, John Mylin, John Brenneman, Benjamin M. Barr, Christian Yeider, Jacob Yeider.
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