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Archive

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Collection: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Title: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Object ID: MG0846

Date Range: 1727 - 1980s

President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Box 1 Folder 1 Letter from James Gibbons in Chester, Chester County to Abraham Gibbons in Mill Creek, Lancaster County regarding his plan to sell the mill and tavern in Lancaster County with woodland and cleared

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Collection: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Title: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Description: This collection contains letters, family papers, deeds, diaries, and mill records from three generations of the Gibbons family. The collection starts with documents focused on James Gibbons, then contains papers central to Daniel Gibbons, and finally end with the third generation papers surrounding Joseph Gibbons. The letters in this collection span from 1783 until 1865. The contents within the letters describe the daily happenings within the family and on their property which was located in Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. The family deeds in the collection detail the exchanging of property to and from the Gibbons family mostly within Lampeter Township and Upper Leacock Township, Lancaster County. The deeds span from 1727 to 1879. Also included are some miscellaneous family papers that span from 1799 to 1871. The content of these family papers ranges from anonymous stories about the Gibbons family, an independent order of Good Templars of Joseph Gibbons, to a land draft of James Gibbons' Land. This collection also contains diaries from various members of the Gibbons family, spanning the three generations. These diaries detail the day to day lives of the Gibbons family and also include historical anniversaries of important events or detail the passing of members within the Gibbons family and the surrounding community. The Mill Records in the collection contain information about [ ]. Overall, the Gibbons Family collection includes the regular happenings over the family's three generations in both business and secular life.

Date Range: 1727 - 1980s

Creator: Gibbons family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 19

People: Bonsall, Daniel; Bonsall, Edward Horne; Bonsall, Rachel; Brinton, William; Brown, Ellen; Brubaker, Marianna Gibbons; Conrad, Abraham; Dunbar, Andrew; Dunbar, Mary; Eaby, Christian; Eaby, Samuel; Earle, Mary Hussey; Evans, Thomas; Evans, Rebecca; Evans, William; Gibbons, Abraham; Gibbons, Caroline; Gibbons, Daniel; Gibbons, Deborah; Gibbons, Joseph; Gibbons, Phebe Hussey Earle; Gibbons, Rachel; Gibbons, Samuel; Gibbons, William; Grigs, Joseph; Hamilton, James; Hertzkey, John; Kendall, John; Kirk, Jeremiah; Lightfoot, Jepthat; Miller, Eliza; Miller, John; Reynolds, Margaret; Stauffer, Christian; Steer, Joseph; Stevens, Thaddeus; Thomas, William B.; Wartnaby, Elizabeth

Subjects: Business records; Deeds; Letters; Mills and mill-work; Quakers; Society of Friends; Westtown Boarding School

Search Terms: Business records; Correspondence; Deeds; Diaries; Finding aids; Lampeter Twp.; Leacock Twp.; Letters; Manuscript groups; Mill Creek; Mills; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Quakers; Society of Friends; Westtown Boarding School

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0846

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Copies: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2021.008

Other Numbers: MG-846

Other Number: MG-846

Classification: MG0846

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Folders 1-30 processed and finding aid prepared from the donor's notes by MB, 8 July 2021. Added to database 12 July 2021.

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Deed

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Collection: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Title: Deed from Elizabeth Wartnaby to James Gibbons

Object ID: MG0846_F020

Date Range: 1727/09/20

President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Box 1 Folder 1 Letter from James Gibbons in Chester, Chester County to Abraham Gibbons in Mill Creek, Lancaster County regarding his plan to sell the mill and tavern in Lancaster County with woodland and cleared

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Collection: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Title: Deed from Elizabeth Wartnaby to James Gibbons

Description: Deed from Elizabeth Wartnaby of Philadelphia to James Gibbons for 1,000 acres of land situated on the Conestoga Creek in Chester County. Signed 20 September 1727. Original seal still on document.

Date Range: 1727/09/20

Creation Date: 20 September 1727

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 19

People: Gibbons, James; Wartnaby, Elizabeth

Subjects: Deeds

Search Terms: Deeds; Conestoga Creek

Extent: 1 item

Object Name: Deed

Language: English

Condition Notes: Original seal still on document.

Object ID: MG0846_F020

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records (MG0846), Object ID, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL. Date accessed (day, month, year).

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2021.008

Other Numbers: MG-846

Other Number: MG-846, Folder 20

Classification: MG0846

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Cataloged by MB, 8 July 2021. Added to database 28 July 2021.

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The mills along the Conoy Creek

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Author: Olweiler, Jacob N.

Date of Publication: 1953.

Conoy Creek The writer of this article will describe just what happened along one of these small streams, perhaps the smallest of them all, located in the extreme western section of the county and, perhaps, the least known of the streams, outside of the immediate valleys through which they flow. The

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Responsibility: by Jacob N. Olweiler.

Author: Olweiler, Jacob N.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1953.

Physical Description: [68]-74 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 57, no. 3

Subjects: Flour mills - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Conoy Creek (Lancaster County, Pa.)

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 57, number 3 (1953), p. 68-74Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.57

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: William Byron Hornberger Photograph Collection

Title: John Hornberger at a lake

Object ID: WBH-01-07-11

Date Range: 1952

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: William Byron Hornberger Photograph Collection

Title: John Hornberger at a lake

Description: John M. Hornberger on a beach at Hopewell Lake, French Creek State Park, summer 1952

Date Range: 1952

Storage Location: LancasterHistory

Storage Room: Archives West

People: Hornberger, John M.

Subject: Photographs

Classification: WBH-01-07-11

Search Terms: Lakes; Children; Beaches; Swimming; French Creek State Park; Hopewell Lake

Place: Berks County, Pennsylvania

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Original or Copy: Original

Print Size: 3.5 x 5 inches

Object ID: WBH-01-07-11

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Accession Number: 2023.052

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: William Byron Hornberger Photograph Collection

Title: Anna Reedy with the Hornberger boys at Hopewell Lake

Object ID: WBH-01-07-15

Date Range: 1953

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: William Byron Hornberger Photograph Collection

Title: Anna Reedy with the Hornberger boys at Hopewell Lake

Description: Anna Reedy with Charles Hornberger, John Hornberger, and Barry Hornberger at Hopewell Lake at French Creek State Park, Berks County, summer 1953.