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Order for Payment

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Collection
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
Title
Commissioners' order for payment
Object ID
CommOrder 1824 #263
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Collection
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
Title
Commissioners' order for payment
Description
This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners' Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.
System of Arrangement
The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.
Date of Accumulation
1810-1901
Creator
County Commissioners
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Container
Box 0004
People
Masterson, Thomas
Thorne, John
Stultzbach, Henry
Greider, John
Ferrel, Jared
Thorne, Samuel
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Colebrook Road
Roads
Courthouses
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
Place
Lancaster
Extent
70 boxes (35 cubic ft.)
Object Name
Order for Payment
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Condition Date
2008-03-25
Object ID
CommOrder 1824 #263
Box Number
004
Notes
Never entered into Q & A.
Additional Notes
Roads.
Road, Colebrook.
Payment for Lancaster County's proportional part of the expenses in making and laying out the state road from Henry Stultzbach's tanyard on the York and Columbia Turnpike in York County to Colebrook Furnace in Lebanon County by way of Marietta.
Masterson, Thomas. For laying out the road.
Thorne, John. For laying out the road.
Stultzbach, Henry. For laying out the road.
Greider, John. For marking the road.
Ferrel, Jared. Chain carrier.
Thorne, Samuel. Chain carrier.
Thorne, John. For drafting the road.
1 item. 1 piece.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 08-01 0510
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Order for Payment

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Collection
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
Title
Commissioners' order for payment 1831 #456
Object ID
CommOrder 1832 #020
Date Range
1832
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Collection
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
Title
Commissioners' order for payment 1831 #456
Description
This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners' Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.
System of Arrangement
The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.
Date Range
1832
Date of Accumulation
1810-1901
Creator
County Commissioners
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives North
Storage Container
Box 0012
People
Mast, Jacob
Search Terms
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
East Earl Twp.
Caernarvon Twp.
Roads
Road construction
Extent
70 boxes (35 cubic ft.)
Object Name
Order for Payment
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Condition Date
2008-03-25
Object ID
CommOrder 1832 #020
Box Number
012
Notes
Entered into Q&A Aug 26, 2002.
Additional Notes
State road building.
Payment for laying out the Lancaster County portion of a state road from Welsh Mountain to Reading. [Possibly Reading Road, PA-625, East Earl and Caernarvon Twps.]
Mast, Jacob.
1 item. 1 piece.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 08-01 0510
Description Level
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The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike : and biographical sketch of Col. Matthias Slough

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Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Date of Publication
1902
-known road in our county and State at that period,* because it introduces a number other well-known historical charac- ters; because, if we accept its state- ments, it shows that the good men and true of that early day were sometimes capable of a little sharp practice when the occasion offered; because
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Responsibility
by F. R. Diffenderffer.
Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1902
Physical Description
[116]-149 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 6, no. 8
Subjects
Slough, Matthias, - 1733-1812.
Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road.
Contained In
Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.6
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