LancasterHistory Research Collections

Collection
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
Title
Commissioners' order for payment
Object ID
CommOrder 1826 #034
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 0005
People
Brown, Samuel
Curry, Catherine
Curry, Edwin
McCartney, Susan
Mellinger, Charles
Mellinger, Leah
Mellinger, Sarah
Mellinger, Susan
Pearson, Mary
Sharp, Thomas
Shidle, George
Shidle, Hannah
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Columbia
Poor children
Teachers
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
Place
Columbia
Extent
70 boxes (35 cubic ft.)
Object Name
Documents
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Condition Date
2008-03-25
Object ID
CommOrder 1826 #034
Box Number
005
Notes
Entered into Q & A 1994/07/05.
Additional Notes
Poor children.
Brown, Samuel.
Curry, Catherine.
Curry, Edwin.
McCartney, Susan.
Mellinger, Charles.
Mellinger, Leah.
Mellinger, Sarah.
Mellinger, Susan.
Pearson, Mary.
Sharp, Thomas. Teacher.
Shidle, George.
Shidle, Hannah
1 item. 1 piece.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 08-01 0510
Description Level
Item
Less detail
Collection
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
Title
Commissioners' order for payment
Object ID
CommOrder 1826 #110
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 0006
People
Brown, Samuel
Curry, Catharine
Curry, Edwin
Green, Christiana
Hutton, Jesse Miller
McCartney, Susan
Mellinger, Charles
Sharp, Thomas
Shidle, George
Shidle, Hannah
Watts, William
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Columbia
Poor children
Teachers
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
Place
Columbia
Extent
70 boxes (35 cubic ft.)
Object Name
Documents
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Condition Date
2008-03-25
Object ID
CommOrder 1826 #110
Box Number
006
Notes
Entered into Q & A 1994/07/12.
Additional Notes
Poor children.
Brown, Samuel.
Curry, Catharine.
Curry, Edwin.
Green, Christiana.
Hutton, Jesse Miller.
McCartney, Susan.
Mellinger, Charles.
Sharp, Thomas. Teacher.
Shidle, George.
Shidle, Hannah.
Watts, William.
1 item. 1 piece.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 08-01 0510
Description Level
Item
Less detail
Collection
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
Title
Commissioners' order for payment
Object ID
CommOrder 1826 #224
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 0006
People
Green, Christian
Miller, Jesse
Sharp, Thomas
Wats, William
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Columbia
Poor children
Teachers
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
Place
Columbia
Extent
70 boxes (35 cubic ft.)
Object Name
Documents
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Condition Date
2008-03-25
Object ID
CommOrder 1826 #224
Box Number
006
Notes
Entered into Q & A Mar 26, 2003.
Additional Notes
Poor children.
Green, Christian.
Miller, Jesse.
Sharp, Thomas. Teacher.
Wats, William.
1 item. 1 piece.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 08-01 0510
Description Level
Item
Less detail
Collection
Estate Inventories
Object ID
Inv 1782 F007 S
Collection
Estate Inventories
Year
1782
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Container
Box 0109
People
Sharp, Thomas
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Place
Salisbury Twp.
Object Name
Estate Inventory
Object ID
Inv 1782 F007 S
Box Number
109
Additional Notes
Servant listed. 1 item, 1 piece
Classification
RG-03-00-0133
Description Level
Item
Less detail
Collection
Estate Inventories
Object ID
Inv 1758 F007 S
Collection
Estate Inventories
Year
1758
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Container
Box 0107
People
Sharp, Thomas
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Place
None
Object Name
Estate Inventory
Object ID
Inv 1758 F007 S
Box Number
107
Additional Notes
Please use photocopy.
Also minutes of decision on validity of will, administrators' account 1759.
3 items, 10 pieces
Classification
RG-03-00-0133
Description Level
Item
Less detail

Historical events in the vicinity of Philadelphia, participated in by the Scotch-Irish in the latter part of the year 1777. Also a brief account of Braddock's defeat in the French and Indian war, 1755

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18833
Author
Sharp, Thomas.
Date of Publication
1914]
Call Number
974.843 C969m v. 3
Responsibility
By Thomas Sharp. Read before the Hamilton Library Association, Carlisle, Pa., October 16, 1914, by J. Webster Henderson, esq.
Author
Sharp, Thomas.
Place of Publication
[Carlisle?
Date of Publication
1914]
Physical Description
12 p. 24 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
An account of the engagement at Chestnut Hill, Pa., Dec. 5, 1777.
Subjects
Chestnut Hill, Battle of, Philadelphia, Pa., 1777.
Braddock's Campaign, 1755.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.843 C969m v. 3
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Collection
Indictments
Title
Indictments
Object ID
AUG 1884 F010
Date Range
1884/08
Collection
Indictments
Title
Indictments
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Date Range
1884/08
Year
1884
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
People
Spangler, George
Sharp, Thomas
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Object Name
Indictment
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Parent Object ID
INDICTMENTS
Object ID
AUG 1884 F010
Additional Notes
Sharp, Thomas
Larceny
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Case Number
2.000
Classification
RG 02-00 0933
Description Level
Item
Less detail
Collection
Indictments
Title
Indictments
Object ID
AUG 1884 F011
Date Range
1884/08
Collection
Indictments
Title
Indictments
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Date Range
1884/08
Year
1884
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
People
Spangler, George
Sharp, Thomas
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Object Name
Indictment
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Parent Object ID
INDICTMENTS
Object ID
AUG 1884 F011
Additional Notes
Sharp, Thomas
Larceny
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Case Number
3.000
Classification
RG 02-00 0933
Description Level
Item
Less detail
Collection
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
Title
Commissioners' order for payment
Object ID
CommOrder 1828 #360
Date Range
1828
Collection
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
Title
Commissioners' order for payment
Admin/Biographical History
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.
Date Range
1828
Creator
County Commissioners
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives North
Storage Container
Box 0008
People
Adams, Charlotte
Albright, George
Anthony, Will
Baile, Jonathan
Baile, Rebecca
Barre, Isaac
Basler, Joseph
Basley, John
Biddle, Benjamin
Bile, Henry
Bolias, Henry
Bower, Philip
Brad, Fanny
Branum, Artheur
Brown, Jacob
Brown, Mary
Burns, Elizabeth
Bush, John
Butt, Matty
Cacky, Mary
Cadron, Peter
Cambell, David
Campbell, Alexander
Campbell, Jefferson
Casabar, Joseph
Casey, Charles
Casgrove, John
Chaney, William
Clair, Richard
Claman, James
Clare, Richard
Cowhick, Dennis
Cowhick, Fanny
Cromwell, John
Curran, John
Davis, Alexander
Davis, Sanford
Dettel, Mary
Dorsh, Betsy
Dorsh, Elizabeth
Dresmond, William
Ebrison, Abraham
Fergeson, Matthew
Fips, Samuel
Fist, Catharine
Forter, WIlliam
Foust, Catharine
Foust, Jacob
Frankford, Sally
Fury, Edward
German, Peter
Gibbons, Sophia
Gibbons, Thomas
Gittinger, Abraham
Green, Abner
Green, Barney
Hetz, Philip
Hickman, Sally
Hutcheson, James
Isenberger, Gabriel
Jackson, George
Jacobs, Benjamin
Jefferies, Mary
Johnson, Samuel
Johnstonson, Henry
Jones, Isaac
Kelly, Timothy
Kenny, Barton
King, John
Lambert, Peter
Lawrence, Joseph
Lewis, Henry
Lochraine, James
Loehrance, Mary
Logan, James
Lynch, Hannah
McCarn, John
McDonald, Charles
McKitrick, Patrick
McLaney, John
McPhann, William
Meeler, Jacob
Meloy, Techele
Meyer, Anthony
Miller, Mary
Morris, Samuel
Moyers, Joseph
Musketnuss, Susan
Neal, David
Newlet, Adam
Noble, Catharine
Norris, Michael
O'Donald, Nancy
Porter, Matthew
Rancour, John
Remick, Harriet
Richardson, Betsy
Richey, William
Rinehart, Mary
Roof, Fanny
Sam
Sarting, Richard
Sharp, Henry
Sharp, Maria
Sharp, Thomas
Sheffield, Thomas
Slaughter, John
Snyder, Mary
Standerford, Thomas
Star, Job
Stasa, John
Steigerwalt, Michael
Stempney, Peter
Stephens, Elias
Steward, Mary
Steward, William
Sydney, Mary
Thomas, WIlliam
Thompson, James
Thompson, Margaret
Tripple, Catharine
Wady, Nancy
Walker, Thomas
Ward, Michael
Warter, Peter
Watt, Jane
Weedle, Adam
West, James
Whipper, Sally
Whipper, Sarah
White, Joseph
Will, John
Wills, John
Wood, Peter
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Commissioners' Orders for Payment
Lancaster
Persons of color
Prisons
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
List
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Condition Date
2008-03-25
Object ID
CommOrder 1828 #360
Box Number
008
Notes
Partially entered into Q & A Jun 28, 2001.
LancasterHistory is committed to preserving and providing access to materials chronicling Lancaster County's heritage. As a historical resource, this document reflects the racial prejudices and actions of the era. In order to maintain the historical integrity and context of collection items, LancasterHistory does not censor historical documents or edit language, titles, or organization names when transcribing original content.
Additional Notes
Prisons.
List of vagrants, dissolute and suspicious persons 1827--1828.
Lightner, Nathaniel. Mayor of Lancaster.
Warter, Peter
Newlet, Adam
White, Joseph
McPhann, William
Norris, Michael
Morris, Samuel
Barre, Isaac
Green, Barney
Anthony, Will
Richey, William
Baile, Jonathan
Baile, Rebecca
Gibbons, Thomas
Bower, Philip
Hutcheson, James
Ebrison, Abraham
M'Lany, John
Walker, Thomas
McDonald, Charles
Bile, Henry
Meyer, Anthony
Claman, James
Brown, Jacob
O'Donald, Nancy
Stasa, John
Sam. African American.
Bolias, Henry
Rancour, John
Isenberger, Gabriel
German, Peter
Porter, Matthew
McLaney, John
Stempney, Peter
Star, Job
McCarn, John
Dresmond, William
King, John
Forter, WIlliam
Meloy, Techele
Foust, Catharine
Dorsh, Betsy
Thompson, James
Fergeson, Matthew
Wills, John
Basley, John
McKitrick, Patrick
Jackson, George
Lewis, Henry
Logan, James
Sheffield, Thomas
Sarting, Richard
Stephens, Elias
Wady, Nancy
Fury, Edward
Brad, Fanny
Jones, Isaac
Clare, Richard
Loehrance, Mary
Cromwell, John
Wood, Peter
Sharp, Thomas\
Sharp, Maria
Standerford, Thomas
Davis, Alexander
Sydney, Mary
Dorsh, Elizabeth
Burns, Elizabeth
Steigerwalt, Michael
Kenny, Barton
Steward, Mary
Biddle, Benjamin
Slaughter, John
Foust, Jacob
Rinehart, Mary
Miller, Mary
Weedle, Adam
Fips, Samuel
Snyder, Mary
Fist, Catharine
Watt, Jane
Albright, George
Thomas, WIlliam
Neal, David
Casabar, Joseph
Noble, Catharine
Cowhick, Fanny
Cowhick, Dennis
Campbell, Alexander
West, James
Cadron, Peter
Campbell, Jefferson
Lynch, Hannah
Johnson, Samuel
Lochraine, James
Casey, Charles
Gittinger, Abraham
Ward, Michael
Clair, Richard
Lawrence, Joseph
Kelly, Timothy
Adams, Charlotte
Davis, Sanford
Cambell, David
Remick, Harriet
Jacobs, Benjamin
Butt, Matty
Basler, Joseph
Musketnuss, Susan
Dettel, Mary
Johnstonson, Henry
Whipper, Sarah
Sharp, Henry
Branum, Artheur
Curran, John
Green, Abner
Hetz, Philip
Steward, William
Thompson, Margaret
Moyers, Joseph
Jefferies, Mary
Whipper, Sally
Meeler, Jacob
Chaney, William
Roof, Fanny
Cacky, Mary
Gibbons, Sophia
Richardson, Betsy
Hickman, Sally
Will, John
Lambert, Peter
Frankford, Sally
Tripple, Catharine
Brown, Mary
Bush, John
Casgrove, John
1 item. 1 piece.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 08-01 0510
Description Level
Item
Less detail

Moral force vs. conquest and subjugation

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18826
Author
Sharp, Thomas.
Date of Publication
[1917] .
Call Number
974.843 C969m v. 3
Responsibility
by Thomas Sharp.
Author
Sharp, Thomas.
Place of Publication
[Carlisle, Pa.]
Publisher
[s.n.] ,
Date of Publication
[1917] .
Physical Description
7 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Bound with: Moral force vs. conquest and subjugation / by Thomas Sharp ; War history : operations of the Union Cavalry on the peninsula, in which some Cumberland County soldiers took part / by Willaim E. Miller; Local history : agricultural society in its infancy / by Helen Tritt ; New Castle in a new world / by Irwin Mahon ; Local history : first public buildings in Carlisle, court houses / by J. A. Murray ; John Price Durbin : first Methodist president of Dickinson College, Carlisle / by O. B. Super ; Local history : the York, Dillsburg and Greencastle Railroad / by Quitman P. Ahl ; Some cumberland County physicians of forty years ago / by Israel H. Bentz ; Historical : the study of the Bible, the basics of the Declaration of Independence and the civil and religious liberty provided for in the Constitution of the United State / by Richard W. Woods ; Birth and part history of the American flag / by Irwin Mahon ; Local history : events in the vicinity of Philadelphia participated in by the Scotch Irish in the latter part of the year 1777, also a brief account of Braddock's defeat in French and Indian War, 1755 / by Thomas Sharp ; Forty years in the wilderness : a sermon delivered in the second Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania on his fortiethanniversary, January 3, 1909 / by George Norcross; In memoriam : Charles Lytle Lamberton / by James M. Lamberton ; White man's way : illustrated talks on scientific subjects to "Indian Chiefs" on their visits to the Carlisle Indian School / by Charles F. Himes; Discovery of coal in northeastern Pennsylvania and life in the mining region / by Emeline D.T. Bedford; St. Clair's defeat / by Margaret Fleming Murray ; Hon. Frederick Watts / by I. Thornton Osmond ; Civil War times in Carlisle / by Merkel Landis ; visit of President George Washington to Carlisle, 1794 / by Lenore Embick Flower ; Annual report to the Hamilton Library Assoication of Carlisle, Pa...[1902, 1903, 1905-1908, 1910] ; report of the president to the Hamilton Library Association of Carlisle, Pennsylvania...[1911, 1912, 1915-1917, 1919] ; Local history : the Pennsylvania Archives as they apply to Cumberland County / by James Evelyn Pilcher.
Read before the Hamilton Library Association, Carlisle, Pa. ; Historical Society of Cumberland County by J. Webster Henderson.
Bound with: Newspaper history fo Carlisle and Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / by Charles H. Leeds ; Moral force vs. conquest and subjugation / by Thomas Sharp ; War history : operations of the Union Cavalry on the peninsula, in which some Cumberland County soldiers took part / by Willaim E. Miller; Local history : agricultural society in its infancy / by Helen Tritt ; New Castle in a new world / by Irwin Mahon ; Local history : first public buildings in Carlisle, court houses / by J. A. Murray ; John Price Durbin : first Methodist president of Dickinson College, Carlisle / by O. B. Super ; Local history : the York, Dillsburg and Greencastle Railroad / by Quitman P. Ahl ; Some cumberland County physicians of forty years ago / by Israel H. Bentz ; Historical : the study of the Bible, the basics of the Declaration of Independence and the civil and religious liberty provided for in the Constitution of the United State / by Richard W. Woods ; Birth and part history of the American flag / by Irwin Mahon ; Local history : events in the vicinity of Philadelphia participated in by the Scotch Irish in the latter part of the year 1777, also a brief account of Braddock's defeat in French and Indian War, 1755 / by Thomas Sharp ; Forty years in the wilderness : a sermon delivered in the second Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania on his fortiethanniversary, January 3, 1909 / by George Norcross; In memoriam : Charles Lytle Lamberton / by James M. Lamberton ; White man's way : illustrated talks on scientific subjects to "Indian Chiefs" on their visits to the Carlisle Indian School / by Charles F. Himes; Discovery of coal in northeastern Pennsylvania and life in the mining region / by Emeline D.T. Bedford; St. Clair's defeat / by Margaret Fleming Murray ; Hon. Frederick Watts / by I. Thornton Osmond ; Civil War times in Carlisle / by Merkel Landis ; visit of President George Washington to Carlisle, 1794 / by Lenore Embick Flower ; Annual report to the Hamilton Library Assoication of Carlisle, Pa...[1902, 1903, 1905-1908, 1910] ; report of the president to the Hamilton Library Association of Carlisle, Pennsylvania...[1911, 1912, 1915-1917, 1919] ; Local history : the Pennsylvania Archives as they apply to Cumberland County / by James Evelyn Pilcher.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.843 C969m v. 3
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