Inventories of estates show name of decedent and township, date filed, itemized list of possessions and assets, appraised valuation, and signatures and affidavit of appraisers and administrators. Administrators' Accounts and Administrators' Bonds are also filed with this collection prior to 1776. Other estate related papers sometimes included before 1776 were: Orphans' Court papers, Renunciations, and Vendue Lists. Inventories were sometimes filed with the wills and may be at the courthouse. Appraisers often included widow's allotments in the inventories. Any additional information such as occupation, cause of death, or the listing of enslaved persons or indentured servants are noted in the database.
Prior to 1752, documents between the months of January and March were subject to double dating, as a result of the conflict between the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Therefore, documents filed between 1 January and 25 March have two years listed; one from the old Julian calendar and one from the new Gregorian calendar.
System of Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically and then chronologically within each letter.
A Treaty, held at the town of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, by the Honourable the lieutenant-governor of the province, and the Honourable the commissioners for the provinces of Virginia and Maryland, with the Indians of the Six Nations, in June, 1744
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the new-printing-office, near the Market. ,
Date of Publication
M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]
Physical Description
39, [1] p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Other contents: Tax lists, Union Township/Lightfoot Collection, box 5, Lancaster Co., Earl twp; "Draught of lands in Lancaster County"/Surveys List of Surveys 1692; proprietary lands ca. 1776/General statitics, Mr. Hamilton's list, Dec. 1, 1765 by Edw Shippen/Pennsylvania cash accounts (Edmund Physick)/Penn MSS Pa. land grants/Lamberton Scotch-Irish Collection- Tax lists Cumberland/Lancaster Co. MSS II- Tax list Lancaster Boro/ [ditto] Tax list Cocalico/Draft of Meadow Land on River Delaware between Darby and Crum Creeks/ [ditto] Draft of farm on Hollander's Cr/Maps/Berks and Montgomery, Misc MSS- tax list Union twp
Indian speeches of Cornplanter, Half[?], etc, 1790/James Kenny Journal to the westware, 1758, 1761/Timothy Horsfield letterbook 1754-1755/Copy of Cornplanter's speech Oct 1790/Conrad Weiser's letter to C Saur
Also this roll of microfilm contains various early land transactions, copy of account of lands surveyed for the proprietors, list of ground rent for Lancaster city residents.
Originally copied for Russell Nelson by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
