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.
Rifle with flint lock (now Percussin), full stock of maple with artificial grain, brass mountings, octagonal barrel with Holtzworth engraved in script letters on the top facet. The finial of the patch box in the shape of a game bird is quite unusual. The piercing in the side plates of the patch box and in the large toe-plate are also unusual features, but occasionally found on other Lancaster rifles.
West End Junior High School Band. (Now Reynolds Junior High School) Front row, left to right: Kenneth Banzhof, Lewis Long, Harold Sandhaus, Ira Fickes, Elwood Gerlitzki, Edward Wendler, Harlan Buller, Matthias Haller, Richard Forney, Aaron Gantz, John Shaub, Richard Boos, Paul Way, William Lawton, William Griest. Second row: Joseph Holtzworth, Paul Fry, Richard Kissinger, Bennett Slotkin, George Gross, Richard Lehman, Harry Schoenberger, Henry Markley, Prof. A. E. List, Paul Rosenberger, David Metzger, Howard Groff, Richard Mellinger, David McCollough. Third row: David Stauffer, Lloyd Conrad, George Gable, Melvin Broome, James Binkley, James Wohlsen, Jack Chambers, James Hollinger, Donald Swope, Clyde Gibney, George Wolf, James McEvoy, Herbert Shaub.
Signers of Petition: Jacob Kauffman, John Landis, John Getz, Benjamin Pickel, Henry Imhoff, Samuel Snyder, Henry Hoffman, [signature in German], Mathias Dillinger, Christian Heistand, John Heistand Jr., Daniel Rohrer, John Hernly.
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Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.