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.
Renunciations are papers filed in the Orphans' Court by executors of an estate who do not wish to administer that estate. They show the name of the decedent, the decedent's place of residence, the name of the person renouncing administration, the name of the replacement administrator to be appointed, and date. The relationship between the decedent, the executor, and the administrator is usually shown. Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.
Colloquium on Schwenckfeld and the Schwenkfelders (1984 : Pennsburg, Pa.)
Place of Publication
Pennsburg, Pa
Publisher
Schwenkfelder Library,
Date of Publication
c1987.
Physical Description
274 p., [22] p. of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographies.
Contents
The Emigration of the Schwenkfelders from Silesia to America / Horst Weigelt -- The Geography of Schwenkfeldianism / Lee C. Hopple -- Eighteenth-Century Schwenkfelders: a demographic interpretation / Rodger C. Henderson -- Schwenkfelder indentures, 1754-1846 / William T. Parsons -- Domestic architecture of the Schwenkfelders in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania / Alan G. Keyser -- Schwenkfelders and Moravians in America / John B. Frantz -- The Schwenkfelder-Quaker connection: two centuries of interdenominational friendship / Don Yoder -- Mennonite reflections on Schwenkfelders / John L. Ruth -- Sudermann in America / Monica Pieper -- Schwenkfelders and the preservation of tradition / Peter C. Erb & W. Kyrel Meschter -- Eighteenth-century Schwenkfelder hymnology / L. Allen Viehmeyer -- The Krauss organ builders / Thomas S. Eader -- Schwenkfelder textiles / Elizabeth R. Gamon -- Schwenkfelder dairy farming in the early twentieth century / Kathleen Manolescu.
