Lancaster county pennsylvania (13 resultados)

Pamphlet. Condición: Used - Very Good. No date, ca 1870? 4 pages. No illustrations. Folded sheet, 8.5 x 5.5" Toned, creased, G.

48 pages, extra leaf inserted. Illustrations of wheels, dollies, trucks, lift jacks, benches. 11x8.5", printed wrapper. VG.

Condición: Near Fine. Original edition. Broadside, black on cream stock, 9.5" x 6.25" The 444 N. Queen address is today the site of a coffee shop.

Condición: Near Fine. Original edition. Broadside, black on cream stock, 9.25" x 6". Lists other candidates on the ticket: political party not named.

Condición: Very Good. Original manuscript. 2-1/2pp, folio, written clearly on lined paper. Stauffer orders that upon his death, ".my body be decently interred in a Christianlike manner"; and that his debts and funeral expenses be paid at once; that his farm be managed by his executor with the consent of his wife, Annie; that his wife set a proper amount ".to bequeath to Edw. Keener, a boy we are now raising."; that his brother-in-law, Philip M. Keener, serve as his executor; &c. Signed by Martin Peck. Witnessed by John K. Eshelman and S.R. Zug. Docketed on verso, with a notation "has since made another.".…

Condición: Very Good. Original manuscript. One page, folio, written in ink on blue paper. In part: "I Nancy Noll widow of John Noll of Mt. Joy.being satisfied with the provision made for me by the will of Said dec'd decline to take the $300 worth of property of his estate allowed me by law." She releases the executors, John Keyser and Benjamin Ritter, from any further responsibility. Dated 28 August 1862. Signed by Noll and witnessed by John Ritter.…

Condición: Very Good. Original manuscript. 3-1/4pp, folio, written clearly on lined paper. Stauffer orders that upon his death, ".my body be decently interred in a Christianlike manner"; and that his debts and funeral expenses be paid at once; that money he loaned out be collected to pay for a farm that he bought from the estate of John L. Brandt; that his interests in a woodlot in West Hempfield be sold; that his estate remain intact ".as a whole, to be managed and controlled by my dear wife Ella H. Stauffer."; that each of his sons be given ".a buggy, sleigh, horse, harness and blankets.," and two hundred dollars; &c. Dated 13 December 1897. Signed by Stauffer. Witnessed by Abram Young and S.R. Zug.…

Condición: Very Good. Original manuscript. 3pp, folio, written in ink in a neat hand. Justice Zug is settling the estate of Joseph G. Heisey of Mount Joy Township, who died on April 30, 1883. Included is an account of all expenditures from the estate, including taxes, Susan Fassnacht for funeral services [95 cents], Felix Kauffman for a book [6 dollars], J.A. Coble for tomb stones [29 dollars], corn sold by a widow, &c., &c. The balance due to Lizzie and received by her is $280. Dated 29 September 1885. Signed by Samuel R. Zug, J.P.…

Condición: Very Good. Original manuscript. One page, folio, written neatly in sepia ink. Abraham Snyder sells 14 acres to Benjamin German, "a certain small tract of land in said Rapho Twp. adjoining lands of John Geil, Isaac Werner, and others." The total price is $2,192 and payment terms are detailed below. Dated 15 November 1873. Signed by Benj. German, witnessed by S.R. Zug [J.P.].…

Trade paperback. Condición: Very good. Reprint edition. 297, [1] pages. 5238 is the number of men and women from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who seed in the Armed Forces during the World War. Two small red ink marks noted on the unnumbered third page. While not a history of the activities of the men and women from Lancaster County who served in the U.S. armed forces during the First World War, it is a military record of the officers, enlisted men and nurses who went out from the county. It was hoped that it would serve to place in the hands of the interested public an authentic record and thus preserve it for the time being. So far as the committee knows or can ascertain this record herewith published is correct and complete. It was based on information supplied by the Records Division of the Adjutant General's department in Harrisburg, Penna. in conjunctions with the Adjutant General's office of the War Department, Washington, D. C. This is an almost irreplaceable compilation of interest to genealogical researchers, military historians, and state and local historians, as well as social historian interested in tracing issues and activities from the pre-war period into the post-war period up to the time of the Second World War.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Folio (22 5/8 x 17 inches). Lithographed title-page, 41 double-page lithographed maps with original hand-colour in full, each with a key, and numbered 4-85 (some leather finger tabs lacking creating marginal losses, some marginal browning). Original half roan, gilt (extremities worn with minor loss , bookplate partially removed from front cover). "When Lancaster County was established on May 10, 1729, it became the prototype for the sixty-three counties to follow. The original three counties, Philadelphia, Bucks and Chester, were created as copies of typical English shires. The frontier conditions of Chester County's backwoods, from which Lancaster was formed, presented knotty problems to the civilized Englishmen. Lancaster County, therefore, was an experiment in pragmatism erected on the periphery of Penn's "Holy Experiment". Pennsylvania's "first western county" would test the genius of English government and political common sense. Not only did the pragmatic experiment succeed, but it has continued to color the life and government of Lancastrians during the last 250 years. In 1683, Penn purchased from the Indians a tract of land extending from the Delaware to the Susquehanna Rivers. Another purchase made in 1718 added nearly all the land southeast of the South Mountain, including most of present-day York County. As settlers in the hinterlands of Chester County increased in number, additional townships were created by the Chester County court. Soon, settlers were clamoring for constables to keep the peace on the frontier. The development of civilization and law enforcement in the older portions of Chester County drove lawbreakers and habitual troublemakers into the backcountry west of the Octoraro Creek. Their presence bothered the settlers, whereupon a petition was presented to the colonial government praying that "a Division Line be made between the upper and lower part of the said county, and the upper part thereof erected into a county, with all the immunities, rights and privileges which any other county of this Province does now enjoy.".…

Condición: Very Good. Original manuscript. 2pp, folio, written neatly in sepia ink on lined blue paper. Lists and evaluates some 60 lots of farm goods, including: 3 Mares, $300; 11 Head Horned Cattle, $125; One Horse Wagon, $10; One Horse Carriage & 1 Sett Harness, $65; 1 Sleigh, $5; 4 Breast Chains & 2 pair braces, $4; 3 Sleds, $2; 225 New Posts & 100 new rails, $44; 9 Bu. Bones & 1 Cutting Bench, $5; 1 Copper Kettle, $10; 13 Hots, $35; 3 whole & 1 half Cider Barrels & stands, $7.50; 6 Chairs & 1 Looking Glass, $4.50; 1 Cooking stove & apparatus, $10; Wheat in the ground, $200; Oats in the ground, $100; &c., &c. Total valuation is $1,653.30. Undated and unsigned.…

For more information on the Kauffman family, see Alexander Harris's 'Biographical History of Lancaster County' (1872), pp.332-335. The family were Mennonites, and originated in Hesse. The most notable member was affluent farmer and bank president Abraham Cassel Kauffman (1799-1886), a member of the Pennsylvania legislature for the 1835, 1837 and 1843 sessions. 18pp., 8vo. Unbound. On five loose bifoliums (with remains of stitching still present). The leaves of one bifolium are separated from one another, and the order of the pages is probably disturbed. Otherwise in fair condition, on aged and worn paper. The first page is headed 'A list of the goods and chattels of David Kauffman sold at public sale on Tuesday the 12th day of November 1844'. A later page carries the heading: 'A list of the goods and chattels of David Kauffman sold at public sale on Tuesday the 25th day of February 1845', and another page is headed 'List of Sales Continued | Sold March 10th 1845 the following Articles'. Each page is arranged in four columns, headed 'Names', 'Articles', '$' and 'cts'. 8pp., 8vo. The first two entries read: 'Christian Peachy | 1 Dung fork 1 Double tree & single trees | $0 | 28 cts' and 'Christian Zook | 1 tongue chain | $0 | 15 cts'. Other purchasers include 'Christian Yoder (cooper)', Andew Dougherty, D. M. Contner, Isaac Watman, William R. Allison, Simeon Zook, John Gettys, Jacob Fultz, Nicholas Hartzler, Jacob Wooling, James McGriger, Isaac Olinkirk, Joseph Hosteller, William Cubbison, John Kurtz, George Knepp, Eliphas Biglove, John Signer, Jonathan Detwiler. The many articles purchased provide a valuable insight into the social history of the period and milieu, comprising the entire effects of a farm: animals, farming implements, domestic effects (thrashing machine; wind mill; rolling screen; 'sifter & shakeing fork'; '1 set plough gears'; heiffer; bull; cows; waggon & hay ladders; stove & pipe; butter crock; skillet; mason hammer; fish net; small dresser; swill barrell; mowing scythe; cheese hoop; pickle stand; spinning wheel; 'Lamp & colinder'; clover seed cradle; corner cupboard; sugar bowl; pie dishes; bed & bedstead; kitchen dresser; 'set britch bands & plates'; 'crock & Applebutter'. Part of one page is devoted to handwriting practice, and adhering to another is part of a United States postage stamp. See partial image of first page.…