- Collection
- Collateral Appraisements
- Title
- Collateral Appraisements
- Object ID
- COLLATERAL APPRAISEMENTS
- Date Range
- 1848-1913
- Collection
- Collateral Appraisements
- Title
- Collateral Appraisements
- Description
- 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.
- Date Range
- 1848-1913
- Year Range From
- 1849
- Year Range To
- 1913
- Date of Accumulation
- 1849-1913
- Creator
- Register of Wills
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives West
- Subcategory
- Documentary Artifact
- Search Terms
- Collateral appraisement
- Extent
- 16 boxes (8 cubic feet)
- Object Name
- Appraisal
- Language
- English
- Condition
- Fair
- Object ID
- COLLATERAL APPRAISEMENTS
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Please request photocopy or PDF at Reference Desk or Research@LancasterHistory.org.
- Copyright
- Please contact Research@LancasterHistory.org for a high-resolution image and permission to publish. There is no fee for publication.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory and Lancaster County Archives, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- RG 03-00 0312
- Classification
- RG 03-00 0312
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Collection
- Exchange Club of East Hempfield Twp. Collection
- Title
- Exchange Club of East Hempfield Twp. Collection
- Object ID
- MG0111
- Date Range
- 1946-1989
- Title
- Exchange Club of East Hempfield Twp. Collection
- Description
- The Exchange Club was a service organization located in East Hempfield Township. Collection includes membership lists, history, board minutes, correspondence, financial records, activities albums, state level Exchange Club records, and programs.
- Date Range
- 1946-1989
- Year Range From
- 1946
- Year Range To
- 1989
- Date of Accumulation
- 1946-1989
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 03
- Search Terms
- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Business records
- East Hempfield Twp.
- Exchange Club of East Hempfield Township
- Finding aids
- Manuscript groups
- Extent
- 11 boxes, 125 folders, 5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0111
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions. Request items at the Reference Desk or contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.
- Copyright
- Collection may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org.
- Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Other Numbers
- MG-111
- Classification
- MG0111
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Collection
- Thomas Baker's Surveying Records
- Title
- Thomas Baker's Surveying Records
- Object ID
- MG0734
- Date Range
- 1856-1902
1 document
- Collection
- Thomas Baker's Surveying Records
- Title
- Thomas Baker's Surveying Records
- Description
- This collection contains Thomas Baker's three surveying books which document land and property ownership in southern Lancaster County, primarily Colerain Township from 1856-1902. Octorara Creek, Kirkwood, Christiana and Upper Oxford Twp. are among the place names.
- Admin/Biographical History
- Thomas Baker traces his ancestry back to Sir Richard Baker (1568), born in the county of Kent, England. In 1685, seven generations before Thomas Baker was born, Joseph Baker immigrated to Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Born in Chatham, Chester County to Lewis and Diana Baker, Thomas was well-educated; a teacher until 1840, when he commenced the study of surveying. Land surveying is the location of points on, above and below the surface of the earth and the relation of those points to a common reference system. Employed at Jonathon Goss, at Unionville Academy in Chester, he surveyed over 650 farms in Lancaster County's Colerain Township. He married in 1855; his family adhering to his Quaker faith. The Biographical Annals in Lancaster, published in 1903, describes Baker as "…a man esteemed by his neighbors for his many good qualities and excellent character, and in disposition he is a man of warm heart and kindly feeling."
- Date Range
- 1856-1902
- Creation Date
- 1856-1902
- Year Range From
- 1856
- Year Range To
- 1902
- Creator
- Baker, Thomas, b. 1822
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 15
- People
- Alexander, Sara
- Andrews, Arthur
- Armstrong, Lapsley
- Ash, Daniel
- Aument, Frank
- Bailey, Thomas
- Bailey, William M.
- Bair, William M.
- Baker, George
- Baker, Harlan
- Baker, John
- Baker, Thomas
- Baldwin, Joseph B.
- Baptis, Joseph
- Bea, John
- Bear, Jacob
- Bernard, James J.
- Beyer, Andrew
- Beyer, Daniel
- Beyer, Margaret
- Beyer, Robert
- Black, Margaret
- Blackburn, Cromwell
- Blank, Christian
- Borland, William
- Bosland, William
- Brinton, Howard
- Brinton, Moses
- Brinton, Samuel
- Broomell, B. J.
- Broomell, Samuel H.
- Brosius, Clarkson
- Brosius, Jesse
- Brosius, John Comly
- Brosius, Joseph H.
- Brosius, Joshua
- Brosius, Levi
- Brosius, Mahlon J.
- Brosius, William
- Brown, J. W.
- Brown, James
- Brown, K.
- Brown, Thomas W.
- Bush, Fred
- Bushong, Jacob
- Carlow, James
- Carter, Benjamin
- Carter, John C.
- Chamberlain, Jonas
- Clark, Henry
- Cloud, Charles
- Coates, Ellis
- Coates, Lewis
- Coates, Samuel
- Coates, Truman
- Cochran, Joseph S.
- Cohan, Thomas H.
- Connar, James
- Conner, John
- Cooper, Truman
- Crossen, James
- Dale, George
- Davis, Abner
- Davis, Christopher
- Davis, John
- Davis, Joseph B.
- Davis, Joseph E.
- Davis, Lucretia H.
- Davis, William
- Dean, Thomas
- Doneby, Philip
- Donelly, Henry
- Donelly, Hugh
- Drumm, Earl
- Eby, Henry S.
- Edwards, Charles
- Edwards, James
- Elias, Emery
- Elizabeth, Mary
- Elliott, Cloud
- Ernery, Hannah E.
- Evans, Carrie R.
- Evans, John
- Evans, William
- Fagler, John
- Ferguson, Benjamin
- Ferguson, Robert
- Ferguson, William
- Fleming, Martin J.
- Foulk, Mrs.
- Fox, William
- Frames, David
- Fritz, Abby Ann
- Gill, John
- Goodman, Charles
- Gowan, William M.
- Graham, Harrison
- Graham, John T.
- Gray, Ezra
- Haines, Eugene M.
- Hall, Hiram S.
- Hamil, Armor
- Hamil, R. A.
- Hamilton, J. E.
- Hannun, Eurch
- Harper, J. D.
- Harrar, Daniel
- Harrar, Miller
- Harray, P.
- Harrett, William
- Harting, George R.
- Hastings, Jeremiah
- Hastings, Joseph
- Henning, James
- Hevenson, Ann
- Heyberger, Jacob
- Hodgson, Annie C.
- Hodgson, Ellis P.
- Hollis, William
- Holmes, John
- Hoopes, Thomas G.
- Houston, David
- Hoy, P.
- Hoy, William
- Hudson, Alex
- Hurley, John
- Jackson William Clark
- Jackson, Annetta L.
- Jackson, Clark
- Jackson, David W.
- Jackson, Ellwood
- Jackson, Hayes
- Jackson, James J.
- Jackson, Lydia
- Jackson, Thomas
- Jackson, Thomas E.
- Jackson, Thomas S.
- Jeffries, Benjamin
- Jenkins, Annie E.
- Jones, Emmos S.
- Jones, John
- Jones, John C.
- Jones, John G.
- Kalbach, A. M.
- Keene, Rebecca J.
- Kennedy, Anna
- Kennedy, James H.
- Kent, Daniel
- Kimble, Isaac W.
- King, Judson B.
- Lamborn, Jacob H.
- Lamborn, Kirk
- Lechman, Benjamin
- Lewis, Alex
- Lewis, Elijah
- Lewis, Isaac
- Lewis, John C.
- Lewis, Thompson
- Luckenbach, J. S.
- Lynch, Philemena C.
- Mahaney, Jeremiah
- Mahon, Jeremiah
- Markey, Pat
- Martin, Elijah P.
- Martin, James
- Martin, Samuel
- Martin, William S.
- Massey, Isaac
- Mayhu, William
- McCardle, Eli
- McCarter, Henry C.
- McCarter, Henry G.
- McCarter, John Jones
- McCarter, Thompson
- McCimans, Mike
- McClure, John
- McClure, Thomas
- McConnel, Samuel
- McCord, James
- McCord, William
- McCullough, James
- McCullough, Robert
- McElwain, David
- McElwain, James
- McElwain, Josiah
- McElwain, Robert
- McHenry, John
- McLinaus, John
- McLinaus, W. F.
- McNeil, George A.
- McSparren, James B.
- Miller, Andrew
- Miller, H. Jackson
- Miller, Henry H.
- Miller, Joanna
- Miller, Lemuel H.
- Miller, Minnie R.
- Mimm, Jesse
- Montgomery, John
- Montgomery, Sam E.
- Morrison, Caroline B.
- Morrison, Emma B.
- Morrison, Robert
- Morrison, Samuel
- Newhauser, John
- Nixon, A. W.
- Nixon, Joseph
- Noble, William M.
- Oatman, Eliza
- Oatman, Zachariah
- Ortlip, Andrew
- Patterson, Bordley Shippen
- Pennington, Robert H.
- Pennington, Thomas
- Pennock, F. J.
- Pennock, Francis J.
- Pennock, Joseph
- Pennock, Margaretta Walker
- Pennock, William E.
- Penny, Joseph
- Peters, Abraham
- Peters, Abraham K.
- Pierce, G.
- Pinkerton, James
- Purnal, Levis
- Pusey, Joseph
- Rakestraw, Abraham
- Rambo Elijah W.
- Rambo, David
- Rambo, Elisha
- Ramsay, James
- Reeses, Peter
- Reyburn, James H.
- Reylin, John
- Reylon, Henry S.
- Rhoads, Levi S.
- Richey, George
- Ricky, Immanuel
- Rigg, Hiram F.
- Robinson, Amy
- Robison, Joseph
- Roney, Pat
- Ross, George E.
- Ross, Hamilton
- Russel, Joseph
- Rutter, Adam
- Rynear, Charles
- Sampson, John
- Sampson, William
- Sellers, Thomas W.
- Seltzer, Sara R.
- Shaw, Ben
- Shivery, Demison
- Shivery, Elisha J.
- Shivery, George
- Shultz, Frank
- Simmons, Henry
- Siner, John T.
- Slack, Hall
- Slokom, Samuel
- Smith, Abram
- Smith, Jackson
- Smith, Jesse J.
- Smith, S. W.
- Smith, Samuel
- Sproul, James
- Stewart, James
- Stump, B. O.
- Sutton, Edwin
- Sweigert, John W.
- Swift, Joseph
- Taylor, Jacob
- Taylor, Jesse
- Thomas, Arthur
- Thomas, Edward
- Thomas, Margaret
- Thompson, James
- Thompson, Jane M.
- Thompson, Mary Jane
- Turner, James
- Walker, David
- Wallace, Arthur
- Walton, Abner Brinton
- Walton, Alban
- Walton, Brinton
- Walton, Elizabeth C.
- Walton, Isaac
- Walton, Joseph L.
- Walton, Joseph B.
- Walton, Joseph P.
- Watts, Mollie
- Webster, Chalkley
- Webster, Charles
- Webster, Daniel
- Webster, George
- Webster, Joseph
- Webster, Margaret C.
- White, Alexander
- Whiteside, Mrs.
- Whitman, James
- Whitson, Martha
- Whitson, Moses
- Whitson, Samuel
- Whitson, Thomas
- Whitson, William
- Willard, Agnes
- Williams, Abner
- Williams, David
- Williams, William B.
- Wood, James
- Wood, Joshua
- Wood, Thomas
- Wood, William N.
- Woodruff, John
- Woods, Joshua
- Woods, Peter
- Woods, Thomas
- Work, Robert
- Worth, Albert B.
- Worth, William C.
- Search Terms
- Chester County, Pennsylvania
- Christiana, Pennsylvania
- Colerain Twp.
- Finding aids
- Kirkwood, Colerain Twp.
- Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- Manuscript groups
- Octoraro Creek
- Surveying
- Surveyors
- Upper Oxford Twp., Chester County
- Extent
- 1 box, 3 folders, .25 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0734
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Related Item Notes
- Surveyor's transit case, Object ID 1973.008
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Original documents may be used by appointment. Please contact research@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.
- 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.
- Other Numbers
- MG-734
- Other Number
- MG-734
- Classification
- MG0734
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Processed and finding aid prepared by AB, November 2014. Added to database 24 May 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Patents Collection
- Title
- Patents Collection
- Object ID
- MG0632
- Date Range
- 1827-1927
1 document
- Collection
- Patents Collection
- Title
- Patents Collection
- Description
- This collection contains patents issued to inventors in Lancaster County. The patents have the technical information about the invention and also drawings and/or blueprints. Some of the patents are for a horse hay rake, pinions, a railroad car brake, and improvements in threshing machines, balancing mill stones, kitchen slicing utensils and a still. Two of the documents are signed by Secretary of State Henry Clay and President Andrew Jackson.
- Date Range
- 1827-1927
- Creation Date
- 1827-1927
- Year Range From
- 1827
- Year Range To
- 1927
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 13
- People
- Becker, Henry
- Bennett, T. F.
- Blake, James H.
- Bomberger, Elias B.
- Butler, B. F.
- Clay, Henry
- Eberly, John A
- Fenstermaker, Emanuel Lively
- Fenstermaker, Gerald Burkhart
- Fellenbaum, David
- Gantz, David Zook
- Iske, Anthony
- Jackson, Andrew
- Kauffman, C. L.
- Keller, J. Frank
- Lutz, Jacob
- McLane, Louis
- Musser, Peter
- Price, Edward F.
- Reigart, J. Franklin
- Seitz, John
- Sieger, P. George
- Slaymaker, Amos Fleming
- Spillinger, Joseph
- Way, Andrew
- Weitzel, Jacob
- Whitehill, James
- Withers, Michael
- Subjects
- Drawings
- Inventions
- Inventors
- Patents
- Search Terms
- Blueprints
- Brakes, Peerless track
- Brakes, railroad car
- Canon pinions
- Certificates
- Double rack and pinions
- Drawings
- East Cocalico Twp.
- Finding aids
- Garbage furnaces
- Inventions
- Inventors
- Investments
- Kitchen slicing utensils
- Manuscript groups
- Mill gudgeons
- Mill stones, balancing
- Nut locks
- Patents
- Plough-plates
- Rakes, horse hay
- Salisbury Twp.
- Sanitary Engineering and Construction Company
- Stills
- Threshing machines
- Watch mechanisms
- Extent
- 1 box, 12 folders, .25 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0632
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Related Item Notes
- An original watercolor drawing by J. F. Reigart of Jacob Weitzel's still (Folder 10) is in the Curatorial Collection (2014.005).
- Emanuel Fenstermaker's watch parts (Folder 1) are in the Curatorial Collection (1972.004.2 and 1972.004.4)
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- 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.
- Other Numbers
- MG-632
- Other Number
- MG-632
- Classification
- MG0632
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Processed and finding aid prepared by PH, February 2014. Added to database 26 May 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents
- Title
- Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents
- Object ID
- MG0721
- Date Range
- 1762-1855
Subject Headings:
Apprentices
Blacksmiths
Carpenters
Contract labor
Contracts
Joiners
Saddlery
Tinsmiths
Weavers
Search Terms:
Apprentices
Blacksmiths
Brecknock Twp.
Carpenters
Contract labor
Cocalico Twp.
Colerain Twp.
Donegal Twp.
Drumore Twp.
Finding aids
Indentures
Joiners
Lancaster
Little Britain Twp
1 document
- Collection
- Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents
- Title
- Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents
- Description
- The Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents include legal contracts between apprentice, or the parent or guardians, and master; as well as one contract between an indentured servant and master. The contracts identify the parties involved, municipalities, trade to be learned, and terms of contract.
- Date Range
- 1762-1855
- Creation Date
- 1762-1855
- Year Range From
- 1762
- Year Range To
- 1855
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 15
- People
- Boyd, Nickolas C.
- Brant, John
- Carver, Seneca
- Convery, Patrick
- Daly, James
- Eshleman, Guy
- Eversole, Jacob
- Fenney, Catherine
- Ganter, George
- Hess, John
- Humerich, Christian
- Humphreville, Frank
- Humphreville,Henry
- Humphreville, Susanna
- Ihling, John
- Johns, Jacob
- Johnston, Abraham
- Lesher, John
- Long, George
- Messner, Christian
- Moore, David
- Moore, Zacharias
- Parsons, Mary
- Peddin, John
- Porter, John
- Porter, William
- Quick, Philip
- Reinhard, Jacob
- Reinhard, Mary
- Remo, Jenetta
- Remo, Samuel
- Remo, Susanna
- Ruch, John
- Ruch, Peter
- Seeger, Fredrich
- Steele, William W.
- Stewart, Peter
- Welsh, James
- Subjects
- Apprentices
- Blacksmiths
- Carpenters
- Contract labor
- Contracts
- Joiners
- Saddlery
- Tinsmiths
- Weavers
- Search Terms
- Apprentices
- Blacksmiths
- Brecknock Twp.
- Carpenters
- Contract labor
- Cocalico Twp.
- Colerain Twp.
- Donegal Twp.
- Drumore Twp.
- Finding aids
- Indentures
- Joiners
- Lancaster
- Little Britain Twp.
- Manuscript groups
- Persons of color
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Providence Twp.
- Saddlery
- Tinsmiths
- Weavers
- Extent
- 1 box, 6 folders, .25 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English, German
- Object ID
- MG0721
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents (MG0721), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- 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.
- Other Numbers
- MG-721
- Classification
- MG0721
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Processed and finding aid prepared by PH, July 2014. Added to database 26 May 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers
- Title
- Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers
- Object ID
- MG0720
- Date Range
- 1798-1939
1 document
- Collection
- Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers
- Title
- Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers
- Description
- This collection contains the family papers of Helen Buckwalter Woerner from 1798-1939 including deeds, farm inventories, public sale posters, estate papers, and contracts. Some items of interest are the deeds, public sale documents, and a Campbell's Soup Company contract for tomato growing. A map shows the site master plan for the Lancaster Airport that was built on this family's farmland.
- Date Range
- 1798-1939
- Year Range From
- 1798
- Year Range To
- 1939
- Date of Accumulation
- 1798-1939
- Creator
- Woerner family
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 15
- People
- Bassler, Maria
- Bernhard, Henry
- Bernhardy, Henry
- Breitigan, Daniel Mumma
- Bomgardener, Elias
- Burkholder, Ann
- Buckwalter, Barbara
- Buckwalter Daniel W.
- Buckwalter, David Joseph
- Buckwalter, Elam
- Buckwalter, Harry Sahm
- Burkholder, Henry
- Buckwalter, Henry W.
- Buckwalter, Hiram
- Buckwalter, Ivan
- Buckwalter, Joseph
- Burkholder, Martha
- Buckwalter, Stella
- Burkholder, Rebecca
- Burkholder, Veronica
- Cross, Peter
- Drutt, George
- Dunlap, W. M.
- Dutt, Anne
- Dutt, George
- Eberle, Ann
- Eberly, H. S.
- Fory, Zeno
- Frank, Christian
- Fulmer, Phillip
- Hackman, Andrew
- Harnish, M. M.
- Hartman, Frank
- Heidman, Elizabeth
- Heilmand, John
- Herr, Isaac
- Herr, Walter
- Hollersten, Peter
- Homsher, Fred
- Huber, Abraham
- Kreider, Abraham
- Kreiter, Christian
- Landis, Levi
- Myers, N. S.
- Myers, Samuel
- Masterson, Maria
- Masterson, Thomas
- Newcomer, Jacob
- Nolly, Loretta Jane
- Peifer, Amos
- Ritter, Benjamin
- Ruth, John
- Sahm, Aaron
- Sahm, David C.
- Sahm, Eliza Gross
- Sahm, George
- Sahm, Henry Gross
- Sahm, Lizzie M. Longenecker
- Sahm, Levi
- Sahm, Menno L.
- Shriner, Daniel
- Snyder, H. B.
- Spacht, Ralph M.
- Stauffer, Christian
- Weidman, David
- Witmer, David M.
- Subjects
- Airports
- Auctions
- Broadsides
- Campbell Soup Company
- Contracts
- Deeds
- Inventories
- Loans
- Maps
- Probate records
- Receipts (Acknowledgments)
- Runways (Aeronautics)
- Stocks
- Taxation
- Wills
- Search Terms
- Administrators' accounts
- Agreements
- Airports
- American Union Telephone Company
- Auctions
- Broadsides
- Campbell Soup Company
- Contracts
- Deeds
- East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.
- Estate inventories
- Executors' accounts
- Farm Debt Adjustment Committee
- Farmers Market Company
- Federal Land Bank of Baltimore
- Financial records
- Guardianship accounts
- Inventories
- Kissel Hill Telephone Company
- Lancaster Abattoir Company
- Lancaster Trust Company
- Leaf Tobacco Company
- Livestock
- Loans
- Manheim Fairview Cemetery
- Manheim Twp.
- Maps
- Mount Joy Mutual Fire Insurance Company
- Neffsville, Manheim Twp.
- Penn Twp.
- Phoenix Water Power Company
- Probate records
- Reading Transit and Light Company
- Receipts
- Runways
- Stocks
- Taxation
- Taxes
- Warwick Twp.
- West Lampeter Twp.
- Wills
- Extent
- 2 boxes, 46 folders, 1 rolled map, 2 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0720
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Helen Buckwalter Woerner Family Papers (MG0720), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- 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.
- Other Numbers
- MG-720
- Other Number
- MG-720
- Classification
- MG0720
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Processed and finding aid prepared by EH, Fall 2014. Added to database 26 May 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Brinton Family Collection
- Title
- Brinton Family Collection
- Object ID
- MG0038
- Date Range
- 1808-1946
1 document
- Collection
- Brinton Family Collection
- Title
- Brinton Family Collection
- Description
- The Brinton Family Collection contains genealogy, estate records, receipts, school workbooks, correspondence, farm records, tax records, bank records, wedding and funeral announcements, invitations, visiting cards, and postcards.
- Admin/Biographical History
- The Brintons were a prosperous family, owned farms and mills, and participated in other business ventures. They were of English heritage and members of the Quakers, or Society of Friends. In order to escape religious persecution in England, William Brinton purchased 200 acres in Birmingham Twp., Pennsylvania in 1684. His descendants eventually moved further west to eastern Lancaster County.1
- Cyrus Brinton (1830-1917), the fourth of six children, was the son of Samuel and Lydia P. Jackson Brinton. In 1813, Samuel purchased 200 acres of land in Christiana (land that was later bounded by the Christiana Machine Shop on the south, Pine St. on the west, Sadsbury Ave. on the north, and Rte. 41 on the east). The land was not ideal for farming, but the property was picturesque and the farm was successful. Cyrus married Rebecca Whitson and they farmed on his father's property for about ten years. At that time they purchased a farm and mill on the road from Cooperville to the Noble Road. The original woolen mill was later turned into a grist mill, then a creamery. Cyrus and Rebecca had five children: Francis, Thomas Luther, William Haslam, Anne Haslam, and Martha Alice.2
- Genealogy:3
- Thomas Whitson m. Martha Hobson
- b. 7 February 1796 b. 10 November 1800
- d. 27 November 1864 d. 18 June 1889
- (Sadsbury, Chester County) (Sadsbury)
- They were married at New Salem Meeting, 17 May 1827. Rebecca was one of their eight children.
- Cyrus Brinton m. Rebecca Whitson
- b. 28 December 1830 b. 3 February 1832
- d. 9 February 1917 d. 29 October 1903
- (Sadsbury, Lancaster County) (Lancaster County)
- They were married at Christiana, PA, 12 February 1857.
- Thomas Whitson m. Hannah Starr
- b. 27 September 1760 b. 3 February 1765
- d. 1 June 1826 d. 20 April 1836
- (Sadsbury)
- The parents of Thomas Whitson, they were married 31 October 1787.
- Francis Hobson m. Ann Johnson
- b. 14 February 1768 b. 15 December 1775
- d. 1835 (Lancaster County)
- farmer and shoemaker d. 1852
- (New Garden) (New Garden)
- The parents of Martha Hobson, they were married 14 September 1797.
- 1 Garrett, Mary. 1979. "Brintons of Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County: Where they originated, what they accomplished, and where they have gone." Octorara Area Historical Society 1:13.
- 2 Ibid.
- 3 Whitson Family Chart, August 1951. The Albert Cook Myers Collection. Chester County Historical Society (Pa.)
- Date Range
- 1808-1946
- Year Range From
- 1808
- Year Range To
- 1946
- Date of Accumulation
- 1808-1946
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 01
- People
- Bacon, Benjamin C.
- Brinton, Samuel
- Garrison, William Lloyd
- Whitson, Martha Hobson
- Whitson, Thomas
- Subjects
- Abolitionists
- Antislavery movements
- Finance, Personal
- Invitation cards
- Letters
- New-England Anti-Slavery Society
- Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society
- Personal correspondence
- Receipts (Acknowledgments)
- School notebooks
- Social reformers
- Visiting cards
- Search Terms
- Abolitionists
- Antislavery movements
- Calling cards
- Correspondence
- Finance, Personal
- Finding aids
- Invitations
- Land records
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- New-England Anti-Slavery Society
- Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society
- Receipts
- Sadsbury School District
- Sadsbury Twp.
- School books
- Sharon Boarding School
- Social reformers
- Surveys
- Visiting cards
- Extent
- 4 boxes, 40 folders, 2 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0038
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Associated Material
- The Chester County History Center (Pa.) also has information on the Brinton and Whitson families.
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Brinton Family Collection (MG0038), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Folder 40 was a gift of Betsey Collins, 5 March 1993.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- 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.
- Other Numbers
- MG-38
- Classification
- MG0038
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Cataloged prior to 1997. Box 1 was recataloged by JB, Fall semester 2006. Added to database 16 June 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Heritage of Drumore Collection
- Title
- Heritage of Drumore Collection
- Object ID
- MG0651
- Date Range
- 1921
1 document
- Collection
- Heritage of Drumore Collection
- Title
- Heritage of Drumore Collection
- Description
- The Heritage of Drumore Collection contains a report and letters pertaining to the Drumore clebratin in 1921 in Drumore Township, Lancaster County, whereupon monuments of Dr. David Ramsey, General John Steele, and Colonel Thomas William Porter were dedicated. Letters are addressed to George Porter, descendant of Col. Thomas Porter.
- Date Range
- 1921
- Creation Date
- 1921
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 13
- Subjects
- Drumore (Pa. : Township)
- Letters
- Reports
- Search Terms
- Correspondence
- Drumore Twp.
- Finding aids
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Reports
- Extent
- 1 folder
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0651
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Heritage of Drumore Collection (MG0651), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- 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.
- Other Numbers
- MG-651
- Other Number
- MG-651
- Classification
- MG0651
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Processed and finding aid prepared by KV, May-June 2014. Added to database 2 July 2021.
Documents
- Collection
- Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records
- Title
- Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records
- Object ID
- MG0846
- Date Range
- 1727 - 1980s
Society of Friends
Westtown Boarding School
Search Terms:
Business records
Correspondence
Deeds
Diaries
Lampeter Twp.
Leacock Twp.
Letters
Mills
Philadelphia
Quakers
Society of Friends
Westtown Boarding School
�230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125
717.392.4633
1 document
- 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.
Documents
- Collection
- Diffenderffer Family Papers
- Title
- Diffenderffer Family Papers
- Object ID
- MG0410
- Date Range
- 1691-1963
, Pennsylvania 17603-3125
717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org
Search Terms:
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Conestoga River
Correspondence
Deeds
Drowning
Earl Twp.
England
Estate settlement
Finding aids
German Reformed Church of New Holland
Haupt Elementary School
Hutchings Printing House
King Street
1 document
- Collection
- Diffenderffer Family Papers
- Title
- Diffenderffer Family Papers
- Description
- The Diffenderffer Family Papers collection contains items that have been passed down through generations of the Diffenderffer family. Deeds for tracts of land in New Holland date back to the creation of New Design, the village that preceded New Holland. Correspondence and some manuscripts pertain to J. P. McCaskey's life and accomplishments. F. R. Diffenderffer's manuscripts on Easter Day and Conrad Weiser are preserved with this collection, as well as poems, a program for the C. Elvin Haupt School, and a claim of F. R. Diffenderffer & Co. against the State of Texas.
- Date Range
- 1691-1963
- Year Range From
- 1691
- Year Range To
- 1963
- Date of Accumulation
- 1691-1963
- Creator
- Diffenderffer family
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 10
- People
- Brubaker, John
- Brubaker, Margaret
- Brubaker, Philip
- Davis, Sarah
- Diffenderfer, David
- Diffenderfer, Elizabeth Shirk
- Diffenderfer, John
- Diffenderffer, Christina
- Diffenderffer, David
- Diffenderffer, David, Sr.
- Diffenderffer, Fianna L. Lutz
- Diffenderffer, Frank Ried
- Diffenderffer, Harold F.
- Diffenderffer, John, Jr.
- Diffenderffer, John, Sr.
- Diffenderffer, Margaretta Stein
- Diffenderffer, Michael
- Freymyer, Jacob
- Grim, Henry
- Haupt, Charles Elvin
- Hoch, Herman E.
- Holl, Wendel
- Hubley, Bernard
- Kennerly, John
- Kinzer, John
- Kinzer, Magdalena
- Koch, Mary
- Koch, Melchior
- Law, James D.
- Markley, Henry
- McCaskey, Donald G.
- McCaskey, John Piersol "Jack"
- Nevin, Blanche
- Painter, John
- Penn, William
- Rodman, John H.
- Shirk, Henry
- Smith, Oliver
- Smith, William Evans
- Sneider, Christian
- Stone, David
- Stone, George
- Stone, Leonard
- Stone, Mary
- Sutton, Mary A. Diffenderffer
- Thomson, Bill "Tommy"
- Winter, John
- Young, Matthias
- Other Creators
- Diffenderffer, Fianna L. Lutz, 1918-2009
- Diffenderffer, David
- Subjects
- Deeds
- Letters
- Real property
- Search Terms
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Conestoga River
- Correspondence
- Deeds
- Drowning
- Earl Twp.
- England
- Estate settlement
- Finding aids
- German Reformed Church of New Holland
- Haupt Elementary School
- Hutchings Printing House
- King Street
- Lancaster
- Land drafts
- Lemon Street School
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Mortgages
- New Design, Earl Twp.
- New Holland
- Newspaper clippings
- Programs
- Real estate
- Real property surveys
- Reigart's Landing
- Susquehanna River
- Texas
- Texas Frontier Forces
- Windsor Forge
- Extent
- 1 box, 23 folders, .5 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0410
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
- Deeds in folders 1-18 were a gift of Fianna Diffenderffer and the Diffenderffer family, 4 November 2006.
- Items in folders 19-23 were a gift from her nephew, David Diffenderffer, 14 August 2006.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Restrictions are noted at the item level--please use photocopies or transcriptions for those items. Other original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.
- Copyright
- Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this collection must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
- Credit
- Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Accession Number
- 2006.MG0410_NOV
- Other Numbers
- MG-410
- Classification
- MG0410
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Cataloged by HST, November 2008. Added to database 28 July 2021.
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